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Characteristics contributing to low- and minimum-wage labour in Germany
In this article we examine the correlation between characteristics of individuals, companies, and industries involved in low-wage labour in Germany and the risks workers face of... -
Not Evidence for Baumol's Cost Disease
In his 2008 Journal of Health Economics paper, Jochen Hartwig claimed that Baumol’s Cost Disease (BCD) theory could explain observed increases in health care expenditures in... -
The German minimum wage: effects on productivity, profitability, and investments
In this article, we analyze the effects of the introduction of the German minimum wage using difference-in-differences estimations applied to the IAB Establishment Panel. The... -
Market Income Inequality and its Impact on Crime in Germany (replication data)
Economic theory predicts a positive effect of an increase in income inequality on the prevalence of crime, but the international empirical evidence is mixed. For Germany,... -
Take your time to grow: A field experiment on the hiring of youths
We investigate the effect of spells of no formal employment of young Germans on their chances of entering the labor market through an apprenticeship. We also study whether the... -
Data access and supplement materials in Genz, Janser, and Lehmer (2019)
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The Effects of Germany’s New Minimum Wage on Employment and Welfare Dependency
In January 2015, Germany introduced a federal, statutory minimum wage of 8.50 Euro per hour. This study evaluates the effects of this policy on regular and marginal employment... -
Optimal Social Insurance and Health Inequality
This paper integrates into public economics a biologically founded, stochastic process of individual ageing. The novel approach enables us to quantitatively characterize the... -
A Source Collection on Urban annuities, 14th–18th centuries
The data published here comprises interest rates computed from annuities sold by urban authorities across the Holy Roman Empire and Italy from the 14th to 18th centuries.... -
Twenty Years of ECB Monetary Policy (replication data)
This is the data archive for the article by Ad van Riet on "Twenty Years of European Central Bank Monetary Policy: A Keynesian and Austrian Perspective", published in the... -
Estimating microcredit impact with low take-up, contamination and inconsisten...
We replicate a flagship randomised control trial carried out in rural Morocco that showed substantial and significant impacts of microcredit on the assets, the outputs, the... -
Do German Works Councils Counter or Foster the Implementation of Digital Tech...
As works councils’ information, consultation and co-determination rights affect the decision process of the management, works councils play a key role in the implementation of... -
The CAPM with Measurement Error: "There's life in the old dog yet!" Replicati...
The replication data contain MATLAB and GAUSS codes as well as the data required for replication of the results from the paper 1. Monte Carlo Simulation: Contains codes and data... -
Regional impact of the German rent brake
New rental contracts have risen dramatically in many German places in recent years due to strong influxes and sluggish construction activity. The rent brake should put a stop to... -
A Note on the Decline of Collective Bargaining Coverage (replication)
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Industrial Relations
Replication information for "The German Model of Industrial Relations: (Where) Does it still exist?" by Oberfichtner, Michael & Schnabel, Claus -
Management Practices and Productivity in Germany
Based on a novel dataset, the “German Management and Organizational Practices” (GMOP) Survey, we calculate establishment specific management scores following Bloom and van... -
Regulating speculative housing markets (simulation code)
Simulation code for the paper “Regulating speculative housing markets via public housing construction programs: Insights from a heterogeneous agent model” by Carolin Martin and... -
Voluntary Quits: Do Works Councils Matter? (replication data)
Most of the literature on the effects of German works councils does not deal with the issue of potential endogeneity of works council existence. Exploiting exogenous variation... -
Macroeconomic Regimes, Technological Shocks and Employment Dynamics
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