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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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Are There Differences in the Health-Socioeconomic Status Relationship over the Life Cycle? Evidence from Germany

Bender, Keith A.; Habermalz, Steffen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Most research on the relationship between health and socioeconomic status (SES) controls for changing age or investigates the relationship for a particular age range. This paper, however, examines changes in the relationship across ages, as well as controls for potential endogeneity in the...

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Real Wage Cyclicality in Germany and the UK: New Results Using Panel Data

Peng, Fei; Siebert, W. Stanley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper compares the cyclical behaviour of male real wages in Germany and the UK using the German Socio … unemployment rate as the cyclical measure, we find real wages of stayers in the private sector in West Germany - but not East … Germany - to be procyclical, and quite sensitive to unemployment, comparable to the US and the UK. We find cyclicality in the …

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

Puhani, Patrick A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 which makes less restrictive identifying...

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The Rise and Fall of the "Normalarbeitsverhältnis" in Germany

Pierenkemper, Toni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

The following paper attempts to trace the construction of the standard employment contract in Germany from the … consolidation of the welfare state, this type of employment was reinforced in Germany in the 20th century and finally developed into …

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Are Young and Small Firms Hothouses for Nascent Entrepreneurs? Evidence from German Micro Data

Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Using a large recent representative sample of the German population this paper contributes to the entrepreneurship literature by empirically testing the hypothesis that young and small firms are hothouses for nascent entrepreneurs. The empirical estimation takes the rare events nature of...

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The Impact of Risk Aversion, Role Models, and the Regional Milieu on the Transition from Unemployment to Self-Employment: Empirical Evidence for Germany

Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

The focus of this paper is on the choice of the unemployed between becoming an entrepreneur or not. It contributes to the literature by empirically investigating two hitherto neglected issues: What is the impact of risk aversion and personal contact with a role model in shaping the decision to...

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Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity in Services: Direct Evidence from a Firm Survey

Radowski, Daniel; Bonin, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

The paper uses a new German employer survey on wage setting practices to analyze incidence and sources of nominal wage rigidity in services vs. manufacturing. We observe that wage freezes are significantly more frequent and wage cuts less frequent in services. Reasons preventing wage cuts...

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Works Councils - Sand or Grease in the Operation of German Firms?

Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Using a large panel data set we investigate whether works councils act as sand or grease in the operation of German firms. Stochastic production frontier analysis indicates that establishments with and without a works council do not exhibit significant differences in efficiency.

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Testing Lazear’s Jack-of-All-Trades View of Entrepreneurship with German Micro Data

Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

should have a higher probability of being self-employed than others. The empirical results for Germany support this jack …

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