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The Dynamics of Child Poverty: Britain and Germany Compared

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Schluter, Christian; Wagner, Gert G. - 2000

We compare patterns of movements into and out of poverty by children in Britain and Germany using data from the British … Household Panel Survey and the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1992-7. Compared to Germany, in Britain poverty …Wir vergleichen die Muster der Armutsdynamik bei Kindern in Großbritannien und Deutschland anhand der Daten der British …

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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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A nation-wide laboratory : examining trust and trustworthiness by integrating behavioral experiments into representative survey

Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; Rosenbladt, Bernhard von; … - 2003

the power of our approach with the analysis of trust and trustworthiness in Germany bycombining representative survey data …

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Alternative values-based "recipes" for life satisfaction : German results with an Australian replication

Headey, Bruce; Wagner, Gert G. - 2018

In most research on Life Satisfaction (LS), it is assumed that the covariates of high and low LS are the same for everyone, or at least everyone in the West. In this paper, analysing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, with a limited replication based on Australian panel data, we estimate...

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Unit Labor Cost Growth Differentials in the Euro Area, Germany, and the US: Lessons from PANIC and Cluster Analysis

Fritsche, Ulrich; Kuzin, Vladimir N. - 2007

Inflation differentials in the Euro area are mainly due to a sustained divergence of wage developments across the Euro area, and narrower differences in labour productivity growth (Alvarez et al., 2006). We investigate convergence of inflation using unit labour cost (ULC) growth and applying...

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'Marginal Employment' and the Demand for Heterogenous Labour: Empirical Evidence from a Multi-Factor Labour Demand Model for Germany

Freier, Ronny; Steiner, Viktor - 2007

marginal employment range between -.4 (number of male workers in west Germany) to -1 (working hours for women). We illustrate …? social security contributions (SSC) on marginal employment in Germany. …

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