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The extent of collective bargaining and workplace representation : transitions between states and their determinants. A comparative analysis of Germany and Great Britain

Addison, John T.; Bellmann, Lutz; Bryson, Alex; Pahnke, … - 2009

Industrial relations are in flux in many nations, perhaps most notably in Germany and Britain. That said, comparatively … in Germany and still less in both countries about firm transitions between these institutions over time. The present … and the erosion of sectoral bargaining in Germany, and identify the respective roles of behavioral and compositional …

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Slip sliding away : further union decline in Germany and Britain

Addison, John T.; Bryson, Alex; Pahnke, André; … - 2010

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Trading places : employers, unions and the manufacture of voice

Willman, Paul (contributor); Gómez, Rafael (contributor); … - 2008

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Segmentation, switching costs and the demand for unionization in Britain

Bryson, Alex (contributor); Gómez, Rafael (contributor) - 2003

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Why have workers stopped joining unions?

Bryson, Alex (contributor); Gómez, Rafael (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Margins of international banking : is there a productivity Pecking order in banking, too?

Buch, Claudia M.; Koch, Cathérine Tahmee; Kötter, Michael - 2009

Modern trade theory emphasizes firm-level productivity differentials to explain the cross-border activities of non-financial firms. This study tests whether a productivity pecking order also determines international banking activities. Using a novel dataset that contains all German banks'...

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Do better capitalized banks lend less? : long-run panel evidence from Germany

Buch, Claudia M.; Prieto, Esteban - 2012

Insufficient capital buffers of banks have been identified as one main cause for the large systemic effects of the recent financial crisis. Although higher capital is no panacea, it yet features prominently in proposals for regulatory reform. But how do increased capital requirements affect...

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Renewed momentum in the German housing market : boom or bubble?

Chen, Xi; Funke, Michael - 2013

The renewed momentum in the German housing market has led to concerns that Germany is vulnerable to asset price shocks … speculative bubbles in Germany over the sample period 1987Q3 - 2012Q4. Overall, we find that actual house prices are not … Germany. …

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Threshold effects and regional economic growth e Evidence from West Germany

Funke, Michael; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2002

West Germany. Our basic goal is to shed light on what makes German regions grow. The paper finds that the relative income …, here West Germany, shows that the model might help to explain regional growth patterns. …

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Drifting together or falling apart? : The empirics of regional economic growth in post-unification Germany

Colavecchio, Roberta (contributor); … - 2005

The objective of this paper is to address the question of convergence across German districts in the first decade after German unification by drawing out and emphasising some stylised facts of regional per capita income dynamics. We achieve this by employing non-parametric techniques which focus...

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