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Empiricism meets theory : is the Boone-Indicator applicable?
Schiersch, Alexander; Schmidt-Ehmcke, Jens - 2010
Boone (2008a) proposes a new competition measure based on Relative Profit Differences (RPD) with superior theoretical properties. However, the empirical applicability and robust-ness of the Boone-Indicator is still unknown. This paper aims to address that question. Using a rich, newly built,...
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Social custom, free-riders, and trade union membership in Germany and Great Britain
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 1998
In the absence of closed-shops and discriminatory wage policies, union membership can be explained by the existence of … Great Britain, we find evidence for social custom effects in the determination of trade union membership in both countries … which restrict free-riding on union services. The impact of social custom effects tends to be independent of union density …
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Minimum wages and employment : the case of German unification
Heitger, Bernhard - 2001
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Wage setting institutions and internal migration : the effect of regional wage equalization in Italy after 1969
Ramazzotti, Andrea - 2024
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Higher labour market bargaining power, higher unemployment in recessions
Atal, Vidya; Gharehgozli, Orkideh; San Vicente Portes, Luis - In: Applied economics letters 30 (2023) 15, pp. 2086-2090
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Structural unemployment and the output gap in Germany : evidence from an SVAR analysis within a hysteresis framework
Fritsche, Ulrich; Logeay, Camille - 2002
The German unemployment rate shows strong signs if non-stationarity over the course of the previous decades. This is in line with an insider-outsider model under full hysteresis. We applied a "theory-guided view" to the data using the structural VAR model as developed by Balmaseda, Dolado and...
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Structural change of the production process and unemployment duration in Germany
Schimmelpfennig, Axel - 1999
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The positive economics of corporatism and corporate governance
Fehn, Rainer - 2000
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Labour markets in Poland and Hungary five years from the start of transition: evidence from monthly data
Brauer, Holger; Falk, Martin; Raiser, Martin - 1996
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Welfare states, labour market institutions and the working poor : a comparative analysis of 20 European countries
Lohmann, Henning (contributor) - 2008
This paper regards the incidence of in-work poverty and how it is reduced by the payment of social transfers in 20 European countries. It combines a micro- and a macro-level perspective in two-level models. The basis for the analysis is micro-data from the EU Statistics on Income and Living...
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