The benchmark 'international telecommunication markets' provides key figures depicting the development and current characteristics of fixed net, mobile and broad band markets. These figures include diffusion…
We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational attainment using three different data sets for Germany, sampling pupils at the end of primary school, in the middle of secondary school and several…
Numerous insurance and investment products offered by the private financial industry contain embedded investment guarantees. In these products the contributions are invested on the capital market, which involves…
Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings
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2005
Numerous insurance and investment products offered by the private financial industry contain embedded investment guarantees. In these products the contributions are invested on the capital market, which involves…
Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings
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2005
The paper explores wage setting practice in eastern Germany since unification. It gathers evidence to support the claim that economically non-viable collective agreements have fostered decentralized wage…
The paper analyzes the labor market impact of migration by exploiting variation in the labor supply of foreigners across groups of workers with the same level of education but different work experience.…
As an example of the adjustment of behavior formed in a centrally planned economy and exposed to a free market economy, the paper studies the development of labor force participation by East German women after…
The paper simulates the labor market impact of a fixed allowance for social insurance contributions. Based on a discrete choice labor supply model estimated using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we…
