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Do entrepreneurs matter?
Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - 2013
In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009691623
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Trade and tasks : an exploration over three decades in Germany
Becker, Sascha O.; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2014
This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data for merchandize and services. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464704
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The impact of public employment : evidence from Bonn
Becker, Sascha O.; Heblich, Stephan; Sturm, Daniel - 2018
This paper evaluates the impact of public employment on private sector activity using the relocation of the German federal government from Berlin to Bonn in the wake of the Second World War as a source of exogenous variation. To guide our empirical analysis, we develop a simple economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011782110
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Are Migrants More Skilled than Non-Migrants? Repeat, Return and Same-Employer
Hunt, Jennifer - 2004
I examine the determinants of inter-state migration of adults within western Germany, using the German Socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324205
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The response of wages and actual hours worked to the reduction of standard hours in Germany
Hunt, Jennifer - 1996
A transformation of what had become a universal 40 hour standard work week in Germany began in 1985 with reductions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335844
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Flexible work time in Germany: Do workers like it and how have employers exploited it over the cycle?
Hunt, Jennifer - 2012
After describing qualitatively the increasingly flexible organization of work hours in Germany, I turn to the German …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288706
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Why do people still live in East Germany?
Hunt, Jennifer - 2000
In 1997 GDP per capita in East Germany was 57% of that of West Germany, wage rates were 75% of western levels, and the … bring convergence, labor flows would respond, enhancing overall efficiency. Yet net emigration from East Germany has fallen … from high levels in 1989-1990 to close to zero. Using state-level data for all of Germany, available from 1991-1996, I am …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260738