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Occupational Mismatch and Moonlighting Among Spanish Physicians: Do Couples Matter?

Dolado, Juan J.; Felgueroso, Florentino - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

) moonlighting is more frequent among male physicians. In this paper we investigate whether such differences are related to the …

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Guest Workers in the Underground Economy

Djajic, Slobodan; Mesnard, Alice - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Guest-worker programs have been providing rapidly growing economies with millions of temporary foreign workers over the last couple of decades. With the duration of stay strictly limited by program rules in most of the host countries and wages paid to guest workers often set at sub-market...

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Norms and Institution Formation

Francois, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper analyzes the dynamic interaction between norms - internalized restraints on opportunistic behaviour - and institutions - restraints on such behaviour deriving from external enforcement. When individuals following a norm suffer pecuniary losses to doing so, the norm is eroded....

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What Explains the German Labor Market Miracle in the Great Recession?

Burda, Michael C; Hunt, Jennifer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment …

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The Consequences of German Economic and Monetary Union

Burda, Michael C - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990

This paper analyzes some of the consequences of economic and monetary union of the two Germanies. Particular emphasis is given to the real implications for the supply side of the German Democratic Republic and for resource flows between two economic regions.

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Was Germany Ever United? Evidence from Intra- and International Trade, 1885 -1933

Wolf, Nikolaus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper asks whether Germany was ever an economically integrated area. I explore the geography of trade costs in a … new data set of about 40,000 observations on regional trade flows within and across the borders of Germany over the period … origins in administrative borders within Germany, in a geographical barrier that divided Germany roughly along natural trade …

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Universal Banks and German Industrialization: A Reappraisal

Edwards, Jeremy; Ogilvie, Sheilagh C. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

-stock companies, but the vast majority of the industrial capital stock in Germany before 1914 was accounted for by firms which were …

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Eastern Germany Since Unification: Wage Subsidies Remain a Better Way

Begg, David; Portes, Richard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

wage subsidy in Eastern Germany and the elimination of all other subsidies. Subsequent events have strengthened the …

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Wage Rigidities in Western Germany: Microeconometric Evidence from the 1990s

Puhani, Patrick A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been ‘rigid’ in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a methodology that makes less restrictive identifying...

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Has Work Sharing Worked in Germany?

Hunt, Jennifer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

Starting in 1985, (West) German unions began to reduce standard hours on an industry-by-industry basis in an attempt to lower unemployment. Whether ‘work-sharing’ works – whether employment rises when hours per worker are reduced – is theoretically ambiguous. I test this using both...

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