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Yaya, Mehmet-Erdem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

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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Gerechtigkeit und Verteilungswirkungen der Gesundheitsreform 2007

Honekamp, Ivonne; Rehmann, Adelheid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

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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How to apply trade theory to the German unification? Making sense of ‘comparative advantage in nothing’

Thomas, Ziesemer - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999

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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Opium for the Masses: How Foreign Free Media Can Stabilize Authoritarian Regimes

Kern, Holger; Hainmueller, Jens - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

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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A Tear in the Iron Curtain: The Impact of Western Television on Consumption Behavior

Bursztyn, Leonardo; Cantoni, Davide - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

. We study private consumption choices focusing on former East Germany, where differential access to Western television was …

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Ricardian selection

Finicelli, Andrea; Pagano, Patrizio; Sbracia, Massimo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

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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Strategische Handels- und Industriepolitik im internationalen Wettbewerb

Gilroy, Bernard Michael; Vollpert, Tobias - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

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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Discretion, Productivity and Work Satisfaction

Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

reciprocate high wages with high effort and (iv) employers pay high wages leaving rents to their workers. In this paper we show …

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Economic crisis and the role of state policies in current globalized economy. The case of Greece

Kapitsinis, Nikolaos; Metaxas, Theodore - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Almost 80 years after the big crash in USA and a new, bigger and more important crisis has appeared in the globalized economy in the middle of 2008. Crisis affects negatively almost all the fields of human life like development, employment, living conditions. One of the states largely affected...

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English Individualism and Continental Altruism? Servants, Remittances and Welfare in Eighteenth-Century Rural Europe.

Lambrecht, Thijs A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

in preparation of marriage. Whilst in service, adolescents could save part of their wages. As most of them worked in …

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