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From Socialist Showcase to Mezzogiorno? Lessons on the Role of Technical Change from East Germany's Post-World War II Growth Performance
Keller, Wolfgang - 1997
In this paper we emphasize the contribution of technical change, broadly defined, towards productivity growth in explaining the relative East Germany-West Germany performance during the post-World War II era. We argue that previous work was excessively focused on physical capital investments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472735
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International Implications of German Unification
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 1996
This paper advances the hypothesis that the EUS crisis was caused by German unification. The unification has implied a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472989
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From Russia with Love : The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival
Falck, Oliver - 2010
We identify the impact of local firm concentration on incumbent performance with a quasi natural experiment. When 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462515
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Gender and Youth Employment Outcomes : The US and West Germany, 1984-91
Blau, Francine D. - 1997
This paper examines gender differences in labor market outcomes for hard-to-employ youth in the US and West Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472736
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The Gender Gap in Earnings Losses after Job Displacement
Illing, Hannah; Schmieder, Johannes; Trenkle, Simon - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
gender of the job loser. Finally, we document that parenthood magnifies the gender gap sharply: while fathers of young …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012629471
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The Contribution of Trade to Wage Inequality : The Role of Skill, Gender, and Nationality
Klein, Michael W. - 2010
wage inequality along the dimension of skill, it diminishes the wage inequality associated with both gender and nationality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462668
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Explaining Women's Success : Technological Change and the Skill Content of Women's Work
Black, Sandra E. - 2007
The closing of the gender wage gap is an ongoing phenomenon in industrialized countries. However, research has been … women to that of men. In this study, we use a new approach for analyzing changes in the gender pay gap that uses direct … substantial fraction of the closing of the gender wage gap. Our evidence suggests that these task changes are driven, at least in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465538
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Inequality and Income Dynamics in Germany
Drechsel-Grau, Moritz; Peichl, Andreas; Schmieder, Johannes - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
lower tail. We further document substantial gender differences in average earnings and inequality over the life-cycle. While …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172118
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A Tear in the Iron Curtain : The Impact of Western Television on Consumption Behavior
Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2014
This paper examines the impact of exposure to foreign media on the economic behavior of agents in a totalitarian regime. We study private consumption choices focusing on former East Germany, where differential access to Western television was determined by geographic features. Using data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458263
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Inventor Gender and Patent Undercitation : Evidence from Causal Text Estimation
Hochberg, Yael V.; Kakhbod, Ali; Li, Peiyao; Sachdeva, Kunal - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Implementing a state-of-the-art machine learning technique for causal identification from text data (C-TEXT), we document that patents authored by female inventors are under-cited relative to those authored by males. Relative to what the same patent would be predicted to receive had the lead...
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