This presentation gives an overview of the empirical evidence on the causal effects of the minimum wage introduction in Germany on hourly...

We analyze Ramsey optimal monetary policy in a New-Keynesian model with search and matching frictions featuring (i) training costs due to...

We provide empirical evidence that the experience of a socialist regime leads to a lack of self-reliance by comparing East and West Germans...

We investigate the export-enhancing effect of foreign workers at the firm level. We first develop a theoretical framework of heterogeneous...

The Corona pandemic still shapes the economic situation in Germany. A complete normalisation of contact-intensive activities is not to be...

Based on information from a large sample of German researchers and using business ownership and nascent entrepreneurship as alternative...

Using a firm-level dataset, this article investigates the impact of trade liberalization on employment and wages in Vietnamese manufacturing...

The gender gap in risk-taking is often used to explain differences in labor market outcomes. Yet, a number of studies suggest that this gap is...

In their spring report, the leading economic research institutes forecast an increase in gross domestic product of 3.7 percent in the current...

We investigate the export-enhancing effect of foreign workers at the firm level. We first develop a theoretical framework of heterogeneous...

The debate about European monetary union has for a long time been dominated by questions of fiscal convergence and the macroeconomic stability...

Against the backdrop of European economies being in partial lockdown again due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this report presents an assessment of...

We use a dynamic general equilibrium trade model with comparative advantage, heterogeneous firms, hetero- geneous workers and endogenous firm...

The recent Great Recession had very heterogeneous effects on the labor markets in industrialized countries. We analyze the role of three labor...

KBW 31: The study, which was carried out as part of the “Nordwärts project”, explains the disparity in economic power observed in northern...

The corona pandemic leaves substantial marks in the German economy and its impact is more persistent than assumed in spring.

We use a dynamic trade model with two sectors and two types of workers to analyze the optimal setting of income-generating tariffs. This...

We embed human capital-based endogenous growth into a New-Keynesian model with search and matching frictions in the labor market and skill...

We use a dynamic trade model with two sectors and two types of workers to analyze the optimal setting of income-generating tariffs. This...