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The Opening Up of Eastern Europe at 20-Jobs, Skills, and ‘Reverse Maquiladoras’ in Austria and Germany

Marin, Dalia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Enlargement leads to surprising small job losses of less than 0.5 percent of total employment in Germany and of 1.5 percent in …

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Allocation of Authority when a Person is not a Robot

Li, Jianpei; Wu, Yanhui - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

We formalize a conception of authority, which is commonly defined as the right of controlling a person’s actions embedded in human assets in sociology. Due to the inalienable property of human assets, the contractible formal authority is hard to verify and enforce, while real authority usually...

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Accelerated Technological Progress - An Explanation for Wage Dispersion and a Possible Solution to the Productivity Paradox

Nikutowski, Oliver - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

of qualification. Therefore it seems quite contradictory that a tremendous educational expansion in the USA is … accompanied by rising wage dispersion (overall and between educational groups). A second seemingly paradox development, which … resulting educational expansion firstly goes along with a composition effect which leads to wage dispersion. Secondly the …

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Spillovers in Vocational Training

Bornemann, Stefan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

The German apprenticeship system is often considered a role model for vocational education. Its influence on economic growth and technological progress through the provision of human capital to the workforce is widely acknowledged. But recent declines in the number of apprenticeships have led to...

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'A Nation of Poets and Thinkers' - Less So with Eastern Enlargement? Austria and Germany

Marin, Dalia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

Many people in the European Union fear that Eastern Enlargement will lead to major job losses. More recently, these fears about job losses have extended to high skill labor and IT jobs. The paper examines with new firm level data whether these fears are justified for the two neighboring...

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Subsidising Education with Unionised Labour Markets

Wöhlbier, Florian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

in employment. However, in these models human capital formation is usually taken as given. This paper internalises the … the reaction of the trade union to tax rate changes are crucial for the employment and welfare effects. …

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The Political Economy of Privatization

Börner, Kira - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

. Under privatization, governments commit not to influence the profit-maximizing employment choice by private investors. With …

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A Three-Decade “Kuhnian” History of the Antebellum Puzzle: Explaining the shrinking of the US population at the onset of modern economic growth

Komlos, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

In 1979, when anthropometric history was still in its infancy, Robert Fogel and collaborators reported that the height of the US male white population began to decline quite unexpectedly around the birth cohorts of 1830. This was quite a conundrum on account of the fact that according to...

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