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Nascent Entrepreneurs in German egions: Evidence from the Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM)

Lückgen, Ingo; Oberschachtsiek, Dirk; Sternberg, Rolf; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

information on nascent entrepreneurs at the regional level, and the lack of it for Germany, let us start the research project … Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM) Germany in 2000. As part of this project, we performed a representative survey of the …

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The Persistent Decline in Unionization in Western and Eastern Germany, 1980-2004: What Can We Learn from a Decomposition Analysis?

Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

western Germany from 1980 to 2004 and in eastern Germany from 1992 to 2004. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and … worker (significant in western Germany only). A decomposition analysis shows that differences in union density over time and … between eastern and western Germany to a large degree cannot be explained by differences in the characteristics of employees …

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On the Post-Unification Development of Public and Private Pay in Germany

Heitmueller, Axel; Mavromaras, Kostas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

German post-unification in the 1990s is a period that was marked by substantial economic change, part of which was East German wages building towards the much higher West German levels. This paper studies the public-private pay gap in the fast changing economic and political environment of the...

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