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for Germany, we indeed find absenteeism of employees to be higher in the public than the private sector. The differences … that the stereotype of the "malingering bureaucrat" seems to be an exaggeration, at least for Germany …
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Denmark, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, which represent four distinct "institutional regimes," we estimate the short …
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Industrial relations are in flux in many nations, perhaps most notably in Germany and the Britain. That said … representation 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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inequality. This paper uses administrative data for the population of Norway to examine the share of the Total Inflows (defined …
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separately identifying the role of peers. This paper uses data on the population of Norway and idiosyncratic variation in cohort …
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these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are …
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significant costs that are borne by displaced workers. We study how job displacement in Norway affects cardiovascular health using …
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In late 2003, Norway passed a law mandating 40 percent representation of each gender on the board of publicly limited …
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While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of...
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More able parents tend to have more able children. While few would question the validity of this statement, there is little large-scale evidence on the intergenerational transmission of IQ scores. Using a larger and more comprehensive dataset than previous work, we are able to estimate the...
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