This paper assesses the spillover effects of public sector employment on private sector employment at the level of local labor markets in Germany between 2003 and 2007. I find that public sector employment has sizable crowding out effects on the private sector. The results suggest that 10...

During the last decades, wage inequality in Germany has considerably increased both within and across regions. Building on concepts of the task-based approach, this paper studies whether and to what extent these developments are driven by technological change. We present novel evidence that...

This paper analyzes the polarization of employment and wages in Germany between 1979 and 2006, focusing on the role of technological progress. We exploit spatial variation in the exposure to technological progress which arises due to initial regional specialization in routine task-intensive...

This paper investigates the effects of the deregulation of business hours legislation on retail employment in Germany. In 2006, the legislative power was shifted from the federal to the state level, leading to a gradual deregulation of shop opening restrictions in most of Germany’s sixteen...