Theory suggests that firms confront a hold-up problem in dealing with workplace unionism: unions will appropriate a … context of Germany where the works council is the analogue of workplace unionism. Using parametric and nonparametric methods … (favorable) impact on investment. …

in Germany, as it is often claimed in the public debate. We use two micro-data sets and a micro-simulation model to … compare effective average tax rates for different household types in France and Germany. Our analysis shows that the popular …. Actually, low income families with less than three children even fare better in terms of tax relief in Germany than in France …

Germany and France are both Continental European welfare states with severe labor market problems such as low …

This paper compares the cyclical behaviour of male real wages in Germany and the UK using the German Socio … unemployment rate as the cyclical measure, we find real wages of stayers in the private sector in West Germany - but not East … Germany - to be procyclical, and quite sensitive to unemployment, comparable to the US and the UK. We find cyclicality in the …

distressed areas, CDCs are fundamentally limited in terms of reversing the processes of community decline. Our comparison of CDCs …

-employment available in January 1998 to families in France that received the Guaranteed Minimum Income (RMI) in December 1996. Based on …

short run dynamics, thereby retaining information for the long run. Using France as our example, we demonstrate that this …