We give an overview of the “German model” of industrial relations. We organize our review
by focusing on the two pillars of the model: sectoral collective bargaining and firm-level …

Der Länderbericht Deutschland im Rahmen des Global Entrepreneurship Monitors gibt seit
1999 jährlich Auskunft über die Gründungsaktivitäten,-motive und-einstellungen in der …

Employment responses to the COVID-19 crisis differed widely across German local labour
markets at the beginning of the pandemic, with differences in short-time work rates of up to …

Germany has experienced a strong and sustained labour market upswing since the mid‐
2000s. While various studies have highlighted different specific reasons for this …

The public-private sector wage gap is an important labor market indicator, reflecting sectoral
differences in wage and recruitment policies. We provide new evidence on this sectoral gap …

How does codetermination—entitling workers to participate in firm governance, either
through membership on company boards or the formation of works councils—affect worker …

This paper provides insights into the time‐varying dynamics of the German business cycle
over the last five decades. To do so, I employ an open‐economy time‐varying parameter …

This article investigates the employment effect of short-time work in the Netherlands during
the Great Recession (2009–2011). Short-time work was introduced during the period as a …

Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we document a significant rise in
monthly earnings inequality between 1993 and 2018. The main contributors are inter …

Despite its stability over time, as for any statistical relationship, Okun's law is subject to
deviations that can be large at times. In this paper, we provide a mapping between residuals …