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regressions, trying to capture the effect of these variables on the real wages and salaries in Germany while considering the … emigration on the real wages and salaries of German laborers. Annual data for 49 years has been used to estimate twelve different … unification of West-East Germany with a dummy variable. The results are intriguing, and contradicting with most of the earlier …
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Discussions of health care reforms are always tightly connected with the question of ensuring equity in financing health care. This paper analyses the German health care reform 2007 and its effect on the equity of health care financing. To do this Rawls’ and Nozick’s perceptions of justice...
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We derive several cases of 'comparative advantage in nothing', which can be relevant for East Germany. The simplest …. The second is the case with full employment wages leading to migration and unification in the West also within the … of eastern wages over productivity-adjusted western wages can lead to a tie in which the East loses its comparative …
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. We study private consumption choices focusing on former East Germany, where differential access to Western television was …
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German television on political attitudes in communist East Germany, we address these problems by making use of previously … them were cut off from West German television due to East Germany's topography. We exploit this plausibly exogenous … East Germany and the communist regime. To explain this surprising finding, we demonstrate that West German television …
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Although economic theory seems to be abstract and escapist in some cases, it nevertheless often represents the main tool in order to comprise and describe economic events sytematically. The analysis of every day news in the media clarifies this in the following paper.
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We analyze the foundations of the relationship between trade and TFP in the Ricardian model. Under general assumptions about the autarky distributions of industry productivities, trade openness raises TFP. This is due to the selection effect of international competition --- driven by comparative...
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employment and of female labour force. We describe finally some features of the reconstructed statistics for wages, unemployment …
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Human Resource Development (HRD). This study aims to examine the role of training in determination of wages. By utilizing … determination of wages, which shows the poor quality of training in the overall economy. Results were obtained by Ordinary Least …
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This paper examines whether raising the salaries of government tax auditors reduces their incentive to accept bribes. It evaluates an optimal tax structure and economic welfare under conditions of perfect and imperfect information in relation to conditions for bribery. The major policy...
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