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Financing LNG Projects and the Role of Long-Term Sales-and-Purchase Agreements
Rüster, Sophia - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015
The financing of infrastructures is a major topic in recent energy policy debates. Project finance, as a specialized form of debt finance, thereby has become a well-established financing tool. This paper contributes a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the determinants of the debt ratio in...
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Occupational Sex Segregation and Management-Level Wages in Germany: What Role Does Firm Size Play?
Busch, Anne; Holst, Elke - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
-effects models. It deals with the effect of occupational sex segregation on wages, and the extent to which wage penalties for … the devaluation of women's work, we find wage penalties for female occupations in management only in large firms. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896172
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The Returns to Cognitive Abilities and Personality Traits in Germany
Heineck, Guido; Anger, Silke - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
' wages only. Findings for personality traits are more heterogeneous. There however is a robust wage penalty for an external …
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Riding the Transition Roller-Coaster: Flexibility and the Inter-Industry Wage Structure in Russia
Geishecker, Ingo; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002
This paper examines the changes in the inter-industry wage structure experienced by Russia since 1993, as part of its … and the RUSSET, we _nd that since the transformation process began, the dispersion of inter-industry wage structure has … increased. Moreover, Russia exhibits large movements in wage premia, as industries respond to massively changing demand …
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Cognitive Abilities and Labour Market Outcomes
Anger, Silke; Heineck, Guido - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
We contribute to the literature on the relationship between cognitive abilities and labour market outcomes providing first evidence for Germany. In particular, cross-sectional data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) are used, which include two measures of cognitive ability, one test of...
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The Gender Gap Reloaded: Are School Characteristics Linked to Labor Market Performance?
Konstantopoulos, Spyros; Constant, Amelie - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
This study examines the wage gender gap of young adults in the 1970s, 1980s, and 2000 in the US. Using quantile … regression we estimate the gender gap across the entire wage distribution. We also study the importance of high school … the two minority groups. We find significant wage gender disparities favoring men across all three surveys in the 1970s …
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Glass Ceiling Effect and Earnings: The Gender Pay Gap in Managerial Positions in Germany
Busch, Anne; Holst, Elke - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
Although there are a variety of studies on the gender pay gap, only a few relate to managerial positions. The present study attempts to fill this gap. Managers in private companies in Germany are a highly selective group of women and men, who differ only marginally in their human capital...
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What Makes an Entrepreneur and Does It Pay?: Native Men, Turks, and Other Migrants in Germany
Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Zimmermann, … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003
This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong entrepreneurial tradition, and the self-employed Turks in Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs...
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Firm Size, Wages and Unobserved Skills: Evidence from Dual Job Holdings in the UK
Muravyev, Alexander - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
The paper examines the labour quality explanation of the employer size-wage gap: larger firms pay higher wages because … skills in the sample of moonlighters does not reduce the estimate of the wage gap. …
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Does Employer Learning Vary by Occupation?
Mansour, Hani - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
Models in which employers learn about the productivity of young workers, such as Altonji and Pierret (2001), have two principal implications: First, the distribution of wages becomes more dispersed as a cohort of workers gains experience; second, the coefficient on a variable that employers...
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