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The Impact of German Job Protection Legislation on Job Creation in Small Establishments - An Application of the Regression Discontinuity Design
Merz, Joachim - Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe, Fakultät … - 2005
One proposal frequently raised to increase flexibility of the German labour market is the liberalization of the job protection law. It applies to those establishments with more than a cut-off number of employees. The argument examined in this paper is that this step in legal regulation hinders...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010535605
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Schwellenwerte im deutschen Kündigungsschutzrecht - Ein Beschäftigungshindernis für kleine Unternehmen?
Burgert, Derik - Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe, Fakultät … - 2005
One of the proposals most frequently raised to increase flexibility of the German labour market is the liberalization of the job protection law. It applies only to those firms employing a more than a cut-off number of employees. Thus, firms just above the cut-off face considerably higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010535607
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Existenzgründung - Wie werde ich selbständig, wie werde ich Freiberufler? Ein Leitfaden
Merz, Joachim; Loest, Olaf; Simon, André - Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe, Fakultät … - 1999
empirical presentation of the development of the entrepreneurs and professions in Germany, a manual on how to reach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008552144
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Equivalence Scales Based on Revealed Preference Consumption Expenditure Microdata - The Case of West Germany zu Lüneburg
Merz, Joachim; Faik, Jürgen - Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe, Fakultät … - 1994
Germany 1983. It is a part of a joint US and German research project comparing equivalence scales with consistent methods and … Germany based on actual available individual consumption expenditure data shows a variety of interesting results with regard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008493969
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Two Scales, One Methodology - Expenditure Based Equivalence Scales for the United States and Germany
Merz, Joachim; Garner, Thesia; Smeeding, Timothy M.; … - Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe, Fakultät … - 1994
based on a revealed preference consumption approach for West Germany and the United States. We review several approaches and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008493971
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Relative Inequality and Poverty in Germany and the United States Using Alternative Equivalence Scales
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Smeeding, Timothy M.; Merz, Joachim - Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe, Fakultät … - 1994
-specific equivalence scales developed for Germany and the United States by Merz et al. (1993). We verify previous studies that show that … inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008493974
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Human Capital Investments in Children: A Comparative Analysis of the Role of Parent-Child Shared Time in Selected Countries
Merz, Joachim; Österbacka, Eva; Zick, Cathleen D. - Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe, Fakultät … - 2010
composition of parent-child time varies across countries with different welfare regimes: Finland, Germany and the United States …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642749