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Social custom, free-riders, and trade union membership in Germany and Great Britain

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 1998

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Umfang und Kompensation von Überstunden : eine vergleichende Analyse für Westdeutschland und Großbritannien

Wagner, Gert G.; Pannenberg, Markus - 2000

In the 1990s overtime incidence in Great Britain and West Germany is quite similar, while the average amount of hours … of overtime for full-time male workers with overtime in Great Britain is roughly twice those in Germany for all years. We … time. In Germany, we observe a remarkable decrease in the share of workers who work paid overtime and a significant …

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Volatile Multinationals? Evidence from the Labor Demand of German Firms

Buch, Claudia M. - 2016

' activities is associated with an increase in firm-level employment volatility. We use a firm-level dataset for Germany which … that are active in Germany. We decompose the volatility of firms into their reaction and their exposure to aggregate …

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Does Trade Openness Increase Firm-Level Volatility?

Buch, Claudia M. - 2016

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Determinants of German FDI : New Evidence from Micro-Data

Buch, Claudia M. - 2016

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Business Cycles and FDI : Evidence from German Sectoral Data

Buch, Claudia M. - 2016

Globalization has effected business cycle developments in OECD countries and has increased activities of firms across national borders. This paper analyzes whether these two developments are linked. We use a new firm-level dataset on the foreign activities of German firms to test whether foreign...

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What Causes Cross-industry Differences of Technical Efficiency? An Empirical Investigation

Fritsch, Michael; Stephan, Andreas - 2004

Using micro-level panel data of about 35,000 firms from the German Cost Structure Census, we analyze the differences of technical efficiency across industries. Technical efficiency is estimated by firms? fixed effects. One striking result is that the distribution of technical efficiency across...

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Risk aversion and trade union membership

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2008

In an open-shop model of trade union membership with heterogeneity in risk attitudes, a worker's relative risk aversion can affect the decision to join a trade union. Furthermore, a shift in risk attitudes can alter collective bargaining outcomes. Using German panel data (GSOEP) and three novel...

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Locus of control and job search strategies

Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2010

search behavior using a novel panel data set of newly-unemployed individuals in Germany. Consistent with our theoretical …

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Social networks, job search methods and reservation wages: Evidence for Germany

Caliendo, Marco; Schmidl, Ricarda; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2010

novel data set of unemployed individuals in Germany containing extensive information on job search behavior and direct …

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