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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...
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Children, kitchen, church : does ethnicity matter?
Zaiceva, Anzelika (contributor);  … - 2007
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Do ethnic minorities “stretch” their time? : evidence from the UK time use survey
Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010
This paper investigates the effect of ethnicity on time spent on overlapped household production, work and leisure activities employing the 2000-2001 UK Time Use Survey. We find that, unconditionally, white females manage to "stretch" their time the most by an additional 233 minutes per day and...
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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]
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Native-migrant differences in risk attitudes
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - 2006
This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003304390
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Ethnosizing immigrants
Constant, Amelie (contributor);  … - 2006
The paper provides a new measure of the ethnic identity of immigrants and explores its evolution in the host country. The ethnosizer, a measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, is constructed from information on the following elements: language, culture, societal interaction,...
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