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Intra-firm wage inequality and firm performance : first evidence from German linked employer-employee-data
Braakmann, Nils (contributor) - 2008
Economic theory suggests both positive and negative relationships between intra-firm wage inequality and productivity. This paper contributes to the growing empirical literature on this subject. We combine German employer-employee-data for the years 1995-2005 with inequality measures using the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003640187
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Fields of training, plant characteristics and the gender wage gap in entry wages among skilled workers : evidence from German administrative data
Braakmann, Nils (contributor) - 2008
This paper investigates the gender wage gap among skilled German workers after the end of vocational training using data from social security record. Using information on worker and plant characteristics for both the training plant and the current employer, results from standard decomposition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003727428
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An empirical examination of repeated auctions for biodiversity conservation contracts
Groth, Markus (contributor) - 2008
The European Union's Council Regulation on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development has introduced auctioning as a new instrument for granting agri-environmental payments and awarding conservation contracts for the recent multi-annual budgetary plan....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003648398
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Higher wages in exporting firms: self-selection, export effect, or both? : first evidence from German employer-employee data
Schank, Thorsten (contributor); Schnabel, Claus (contributor) - 2008
While it is a stylized fact that exporting firms pay higher wages than nonexporting firms, the direction of the link between exporting and wages is less clear. Using a rich set of German linked employer-employee panel data we follow over time plants that start to export. We show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003648400
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Forschungsbericht 2007 / Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg
Universität Lüneburg / Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003648401
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International firm activities and innovation : evidence from knowledge production functions for German firms
Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2006
Export, Auslandsinvestition, Wissensproduktion, Deutschland - Exports, foreign direct investment, knowledge production … function, Germany …Using a knowledge production framework and a rich set of plant level data this study demonstrates that in Germany firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003316719
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Is the market classification of risk always efficient? : evidence from German third party motor insurance
Schwarze, Reimund (contributor); Wein, Thomas (contributor) - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003317054
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Associations' agreement and the interest of the network suppliers : the strategic use of structural features
Wein, Thomas (contributor) - 2005
Germany had been an interest group equilibrium under the restriction of EU-directive. Using the NTPA associations of … December 2001 introduced a market comparison scheme with three structural features: “East-/West-Germany”, “consumption … feature “East-/West Germany” and “consumption/population density” could be explained by this hypothesis. But because we have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003317290
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Exports, foreign direct investment and productivity : evidence from German firm level data
Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2005
This paper presents the first empirical test with German establishment level data of a hypothesis derived by Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to serve foreign markets either trough exports or foreign direct investment: only the more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003317296
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The (parlous) state of German unions
Addison, John T. (contributor); Schnabel, Claus (contributor) - 2006
Gewerkschaft / Deutschland, Gewerkschaftsmitglied, Globalisierung - German unions, union membership, globalization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003317786