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Social custom, free-riders, and trade union membership in Germany and Great Britain
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 1998
social norms. We develop a theoretical frame-work which nests various social custom models. Using micro data for Germany and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009668119
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Umfang und Kompensation von Überstunden : eine vergleichende Analyse für Westdeutschland und Großbritannien
Wagner, Gert G.; Pannenberg, Markus - 2000
In the 1990s overtime incidence in Great Britain and West Germany is quite similar, while the average amount of hours … of overtime for full-time male workers with overtime in Great Britain is roughly twice those in Germany for all years. We … time. In Germany, we observe a remarkable decrease in the share of workers who work paid overtime and a significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433960
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Financial constraints and capacity adjustment in the United Kingdom - evidence from a large panel of survey data
Kalckreuth, Ulf von (contributor); Murphy, Emma (contributor) - 2004
The interrelationship between financial constraints and firm activity is a hotly debated issue. The way firms cope with financial constraints is fundamental to the analysis of monetary transmission, of financial stability and of growth and development. The CBI Industrial Trends Survey contains...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002681975
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Drinking is different! : examining the role of locus of control for alcohol consumption
Caliendo, Marco; Hennecke, Juliane - 2020
Unhealthy behavior can be extremely costly from a micro- and macroeconomic perspective and exploring the determinants of such behavior is highly important from an economist's point of view. We examine whether locus of control (LOC) can explain alcohol consumption as an important domain of health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012230110
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The impact of risk attitudes on entrepreneurial survival
Caliendo, Marco (contributor); Fossen, Frank M. (contributor) - 2008
Risk attitudes have an impact on not only the decision to become an entrepreneur but also the survival and failure rates of entrepreneurs. Whereas recent research underpins the theoretical proposition of a positive correlation between risk attitudes and the decision to become an entrepreneur,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726124
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Great moderation at the firm level? : unconditional versus conditional output volatility
Buch, Claudia M. (contributor); Döpke, Jörg (contributor);  … - 2008
trends in unconditional firm level and aggregated output volatility in Germany are similar. There has been a long …
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Risk aversion and trade union membership
Goerke, Laszlo (contributor); Pannenberg, Markus (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003651053
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FDI versus cross-border financial services : the globalisation of German banks
Buch, Claudia M. (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001998057
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Evaluating the German "Mini-Jobʺ reform using a true natural experiment
Caliendo, Marco (contributor);  … - 2006
. The Mini-Jobʺ reform in Germany - introduced on April 1, 2003 - can be seen in line with these policies, exempting labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003304436
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The coordination channel of foreign exchange intervention : a nonlinear microstructural analysis
Reitz, Stefan (contributor); Taylor, Markt P. (contributor) - 2006
The coordination channel has been proposed as a means by which foreign exchange market intervention may be effective, in addition to the traditional portfolio balance and signaling channels. If strong and persistent misalignments of the exchange rate are caused by non-fundamental influences,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003304957