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Wages, rents, unemployment, and the quality of life

Wrede, Matthias - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the regional quality of life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local amenities and disamenities. In particular, the paper shows for quasi-linear utility that the effects of any...

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Wages, rents, unemployment, and the quality of life

Wrede, Matthias - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a search-matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the willingness to pay for regional amenities and the regional quality of life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local amenities and disamenities. The results are compared...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010954437

Citizen-centric governance indicators: Measuring and monitoring governance by listening to the people and not the interest groups

Ivanyna, Maksym; Shah, Anwar - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Governance indicators are now widely used as tools for conducting development dialogue, allocating external assistance and influencing foreign direct investment. This paper argues that available governance indicators are not suitable for these purposes as they do not conceptualize governance and...

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United, yet apart? A note on persistent labour market differences between Western and Eastern Germany

Schnabel, Claus - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

results of labour markets in eastern and western Germany have become quite similar in some respects but still differ markedly …

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United, yet apart? A note on persistent labour market differences between Western and Eastern Germany

Schnabel, Claus - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

results of labour markets in eastern and western Germany have become quite similar in some respects but still differ markedly …

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Establishment age and wages: evidence from German linked employer-employee data

Kölling, Arnd; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

empirical evidence on this firm age - wage nexus for Germany. We find that older firms pay on average higher wages for workers …-Arbeitnehmer-Datensatzes präsentieren wir erste empirische Ergebnisse für Deutschland zu diesem Zusammenhang. Wir stellen fest, dass innerhalb …

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The institutional context of an empirical law: the wage curve under different regimes of collective bargaining

Blien, Uwe; Dauth, Wolfgang; Schank, Thorsten; … - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

-scale linked employer-employee data set for western Germany, this paper provides a first test of the relevance of different …

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The persistent decline in unionization in western and eastern Germany, 1980-2004 : What can we learn from a decomposition analysis?

Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Germany from 1980 to 2004. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and women and for different groups of the workforce … variables such as age, public sector employment and being a blue collar worker (significant in western Germany only). A … decomposition analysis shows that differences in union density over time and between eastern and western Germany to a large degree …

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German works councils in the production process

Addison, John T.; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; … - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

We estimate the effects of works councils on productivity, 1997-2000, using the IAB Establishment Panel, a nationally representative German data set. We recoup the works council effect by estimating translog production functions, stochastic frontier production functions, and a model in first...

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Trade union membership in Eastern and Western Germany: convergence or divergence?

Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

unionization has become more and more similar in eastern and western Germany in the period 1992 to 2000. The originally high level … of union density in eastern Germany has dropped below that of western Germany, and union membership has been falling … individuals probability of union membership have converged over time between western and eastern Germany. After an assimilation …

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