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The exporter wage premium reconsidered : destinations, distances and linked employer-employee data

Schmillen, Achim - 2011

This study uses detailed, reliable and up-to-date linked employer-employee data that take account of both the demand and the supply side of the labor market to challenge the conventional wisdom of a universal exporter wage premium. It investigates whether for German establishments an exporter...

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Agglomeration economies with consistent productivity estimates

Ehrl, Philipp - 2011

This paper investigates the relative impact of microeconomic agglomeration mechanisms on plant's total factor productivity (TFP) using German establishment and employment level data. Contrasting different strategies to estimate TFP from plant level production functions reveals that not...

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The role of patents and secrecy for intellectual property protection : theory and evidence

Mosel, Malte - 2012

Traditionally patents are seen as the gold standard for intellectual property protection. But, in line with empirical findings that secrecy is considered more important for appropriating returns, recent theories predict that firms keep their most important inventions secret. This article...

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Assessing the localization pattern of German manufacturing and service industries : a distance based approach

Koh, Hyun-Ju; Riedel, Nadine - 2009

This paper assesses the agglomeration pattern of four-digit industries in Germany using a rich data set on the …

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Are the firm owners really worse off with a works council?

Müller, Steffen - 2009

As they are employee associations, it is typically presumed that works councils redistribute economic rents from firm owners to workers. And indeed, empirical literature suggests that works councils reduce profits although, at the same time, they increase productivity. Studies on the...

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Is there a gap in the gap? : regional differences in the gender pay gap

Hirsch, Boris; König, Marion; Möller, Joachim - 2009

' ability to discriminate against women. Utilising a large administrative data set for western Germany and a exible semi …

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Crown princes and Benjamins : birth order and educational attainment in East and West Germany

Eschelbach, Martina - 2009

in Germany. These effects are typically attributed to sibling rivalry for parental resources. Using data from the German …. The effects are of substantial magnitude, both in West and East Germany. To our knowledge, this is the first study that … also examines possible trends in the birth order effects. In West Germany, the effects remained stable over time, whereas …

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Disability pensions and labor supply : evidence from Germany

Broadway, Barbara - 2010

I investigate the incentive effects of disability pensions on the labor supply decision of the elderly in Germany. In … ; labor force exit ; Germany …

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The economics of regional demarcation in banking

Raab-Kratzmeier, Simone; Welzel, Peter - 2010 - Version of January 18, 2010

Cooperation among savings and cooperative banks was criticized by the European Commission because of potentially anti-competitive effects. In an industrial economics model of banks taking deposits and giving loans we look at regional demarcation as one of such cooperative practices. There are...

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Public and private health insurance in Germany : the ignored risk selection problem

Grunow, Martina; Nuscheler, Robert - 2010

While risk selection within the German public health insurance system has received considerable attention, risk selection between public and private health insurers has largely been ignored. This is surprising since - given the institutional structure - risk selection between systems is likely...

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