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Economic Costs of Mass Violent Conflicts: Final Report for the Small Arms Survey, Geneva, Switzerland

Bozzoli, Carlos; Brück, Tilman; Drautzburg, Thorsten; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung)

This paper provides a critical analysis of the possible methods, data sources and the existing results of the field of 'the economic costs of mass violent conflict' by identifying strengths and weaknesses of the existing literature. The report evaluates content, methods, and data sources of the...

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Top down or Bottom Up? A Cross-National Study of Vertical Occupational Sex Segregation in Twelve European Countries

Schäfer, Andrea; Tucci, Ingrid; Gottschall, Karin - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

Starting with a comparative assessment of different welfare regimes and political economies from the perspective of gender awareness and "pro-women" policies, this paper identifies the determinants of cross-national variation in women's chances of being in a high-status occupation in twelve West...

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Entrepreneurship, Windfall Gains and Financial Constraints: The Case of Germany

Schäfer, Dorothea; Talavera, Oleksandr - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

In this paper we investigate the link between entrepreneurship and financial constraints. We develop a dynamic partial equilibrium model of an individual utility maximization that predicts that the person is more likely to start her business when financial constraints are eased. We test this...

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Arbeitsmarktbindung Nichterwerbstätiger: zur Stillen Reserve in Europa

Holst, Elke; Spieß, Katharina C. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2001

percentage than the average of this group is, for example, associated with a higher than average level of unemployment in some …

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The Transition into Work: Specialities for the Hidden Labour Force

Holst, Elke; Spieß, C. Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

The paper presents a multivariate approach on transitions into work for five non working groups including the unemployed, the Attached, people in education, people doing housework and others. The study is based on ECHP data from 1994 to 1998. It is expected that individuals in the Attached group...

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Public Health Insurance and Entry into Self-employment

Fossen, Frank M.; König, Johannes - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015

We estimate the impact of a differential treatment of paid employees versus self-employed workers in a public health insurance system on the entry rate into entrepreneurship. In Germany, the public health insurance system is mandatory for most paid employees, but not for the self-employed, who...

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Social Custom, Free-Riders, and Trade Union Membership in Germany and Great Britain

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 1998

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Germany's Slump Explaining the Unemployment Crisis of the 1990s

Lindlar, Ludger; Scheremet, Wolfgang - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 1998

According to a widespread view, Germany's unemployment crisis is caused by rigid labour markets, low profitability and … Germany's unemployment rate since 1989, first because no distinction is drawn between the situation in the Eastern part of … negotiations. The unification shock to the East added at least 2.5 percentage points to Germany's overall unemployment rate, as …

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Capital Accumulation, Labour Market Institutions, and Unemployment in the Medium Run

Stockhammer, Engelbert; Klär, Erik - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

According to the mainstream view, labour market institutions (LMI) are the key determinants of unemployment in the … insufficient capital accumulation responsible for unemployment (Arestis et al 2007). Empirical work in this tradition has paid … capital accumulation as a macroeconomic shock. In the empirical analysis, medium-term unemployment is explained by capital …

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Google Econometrics and Unemployment Forecasting

Askitas, Nikos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

. It demonstrates strong correlations between keyword searches and unemployment rates using monthly German data and …

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