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Grenzübergreifende Arbeitsbeziehungen in globalen Konzernen : Wege und Instrumente transnationaler Interessenvertretung
Müller, Torsten; Platzer, Hans-Wolfgang; Rüb, Stefan - 2004
Der vielschichtige und dynamische Prozess der Globalisierung, der nicht zuletzt durch eine wachsende Zahl global agierender Konzerne und durch deren veränderte transnationale Strukturen und Strategien vorangetrieben wird, wirft die Frage nach der Entwicklung transnationaler Arbeitsbeziehungen...
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Stress - mind - health : the START procedure for the risk assessment and risk management of work-related stress
Satzer, Rolf - 2009 - [Electronic ed.]
This booklet represents the short version of the START-procedure for the risk assessment of mental stress at the work. This procedure has been developed in the framework of a research project funded by the Hans-Böckler-Foundation.The research project aimed at developing strategies which...
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Time-varying business volatility, price setting, and the real effects of monetary policy
Bachmann, Ruediger; Born, Benjamin; Elstner, Steffen; … - 2013
Does time-varying business volatility affect the price setting of firms and thus the transmission of monetary policy into the real economy? To address this question, we estimate from the firm-level micro data of the German IFO Business Climate Survey the impact of idiosyncratic volatility on the...
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Immigration, education and native wage inequality
Lumpe, Christian; Weigert, Benjamin - 2010
In this paper we analyse the effect of immigration on the labour market prospects for different skill groups among natives. We develop a model of endogenous labour supply in which immigration affects educational decisions of natives. We argue that the distributional consequences of immigration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009751387
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20 years of German unification : evidence on income convergence and heterogeneity
Brück, Tilman; Peters, Heiko - 2009
We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based …, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West Germany over the fifteen years for which data are available. Using a … highest negative income gap. This probably reflects out-migration from East Germany by the young and highly skilled. On the …
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German labor market and fiscal reforms 1999 to 2008 : can they be blamed for intra-Euro Area imbalances?
Gadatsch, Niklas; Stähler, Nikolai; Weigert, Benjamin - 2014
In this paper,we assess the impact ofmajor German structural reforms from1999 to 2008 on key macroeconomic variables within a two-country monetary union DSGE model. Bymany, these reforms, especially the Hartz reforms on the labormarket, are considered to be the root of thereafter observed...
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Labour reallocation dynamics in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic and past recessions
Garnadt, Niklas; Rueden, Christina von; Thiel, Esther - 2021
How do recessions affect labour reallocation dynamics? Using data for Germany we document that gross job reallocation … process during the COVID-19 recession in Germany. …
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Measuring the online platform economy in Germany
Hildenbrand, Hannah-Maria; Rueden, Christina von; … - 2021
platforms in Germany using proprietary data on website traffic between 2018 and 2021. Our analysis suggests that German platform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012797078
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Co-determination in Germany - a beginner's guide
Page, Rebecca - 2018
The word "co-determination", or "Mitbestimmung" in German, is commonly heard outside of Germany but it's actual meaning … it functions in practice and what it means to the Germans and to Germany as whole. The relationship between the German co …
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