In recent years, a widespread consensus has emerged about the necessity of establishing
bridges between quantitative and qualitative approaches to empirical research in political …

This chapter describes the persistent levels of self-employment and new business formation
in different time periods and under different framework conditions. It focuses on research …

Most labor economics textbooks pay little attention to actual labor markets, taking as
reference a perfectly competitive market in which losing a job is not a big deal. The …

Das vorliegende Lehrbuch ist das Ergebnis langjähriger Beschäftigung mit der Sozialpolitik
in Forschung und Lehre. Es stellt–nach einer knapp gehaltenen wissenschaftstheoretischen …

Previous studies of aid allocation have concluded that foreign aid is allocated not only
according to development needs but also according to donor self‐interest. We revisit this …

This paper examines the input and output additionality of public R&D subsidies in Western
and Eastern Germany. We estimate the impact of public R&D grants on firms' R&D and …

Italy and Germany have similar geographical differences in firm productivity—with the North
more productive than the South in Italy and the West more productive than the East in …

Following the unification of Germany in 1990, eastern wages and unemployment both rose
rapidly. I demonstrate that rising wages reduced eastern emigration greatly, while rising …

This study provides new evidence on top income shares in Germany from industrialization to
the present. Income concentration was high in the nineteenth century, dropped sharply after …

Although the link between transport accessibility and the regional and local scope of labour
markets has been widely studied in the literature, high speed rail (HSR) commuting is a …