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Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining …
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In 1997 Chancellor Kohl proposed a major pension reform: he pushed the law through Parliament explaining that the German PAYG system had become unsustainable. One limitation of the new law - one that is crucial for our identification strategy - is that it left the generous pension entitlements...
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also of subsequent generations. Little comparative work exists for Europe’s largest economies. France, Germany and the …
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the law on information disclosure for joint consultation and collective bargaining in three countries, Germany, France … is argued that there is coherence between the law and institutions in Germany; in France, despite extensive legal support …
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This paper asks whether Germany was ever an economically integrated area. I explore the geography of trade costs in a … new data set of about 40,000 observations on regional trade flows within and across the borders of Germany over the period … origins in administrative borders within Germany, in a geographical barrier that divided Germany roughly along natural trade …
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Germany and the USA have very different systems of legal representation and rights at work, but these differences and …
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Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet occupied zone to prevent … expropriation. We show that the regional location decisions of these firms upon moving to western Germany were driven by non …
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