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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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Lohnentwicklung im Lebenszyklus : eine Analyse von Ausmaß, Begründung und Heterogenität von Lohnsteigerungen

Orlowski, Robert; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2011

This paper summarizes the findings of studies which investigate the determinants of wages in Germany, using data of the … sector, in East and West Germany, for men and women, as well as in large versus small firms. Among the most interesting …

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Determinants of lifetime unemployment : a micro data analysis with censored quantile regressions

Schmillen, Achim; Möller, Joachim - 2010

The empirical literature on unemployment almost exclusively focuses on the duration of distinct unemployment spells. In contrast, we use a large German administrative micro data set for the time span 1975-2004 to investigate individual lifetime unemployment (defined as the total length of all...

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Testing for parameter stability in DSGE models : the case of France, Germany, Italy, and Spain

Jerger, Jürgen; Röhe, Oke - 2012

properties of each single parameter in a DSGE model separately. In the case of France, Germany, and Italy our results point to … behavior for France, Italy, and Spain, while monetary policy in Germany seems to be stable over time. -- DSGE ; EMU ; monetary …

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