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Dialects, cultural Identity, and economic exchange
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - 2010
We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...
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On the Road (Again) : Commuting and Local Employment Elasticities in Germany
Krebs, Oliver; Pflüger, Michael - 2021
address the role of housing markets for quantitative analyses. Germany is an exciting laboratory because commuting across … local labor markets is pervasive, unique data are available, and because Germany’s high degree of trade openness poses a …/housing shares in Germany turns out to be inessential for our findings, the level of the land/housing share plays an important role …
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What do we know about the relationship between regionalized aspects of the unemployment insurance system and internal migration in Canada?
Day, Kathleen M.; Winer, Stanley L. - 2011
The purpose of this paper is to critically review the past four decades of empirical research on the relationship between internal migration and regional variation in the generosity of Canada's unemployment insurance system. It has long been argued that because the Canadian insurance system is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274885
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Who Reports the Mood in German Boardrooms? Evidence from the Ifo Business Survey
Hennrich, Jonas; Sauer, Stefan; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2023
The ifo Business Climate Index for Germany is considered as the most important leading indicator for the German economy …
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Pharmaceutical Prices : The Impact of the Launch Strategy - An Analysis of German Data
Böhler, Yvonne-Beatrice - 2019
This paper reports the results from a statistical analysis of pharmaceutical price negotiations in Germany, where the …
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Tracking and Predicting the German Economy : Ifo vs. Pmi
Lehmann, Robert - 2020
This analysis investigates the predictive power of the most important leading indicators for the German economy, which are provided by the ifo Institute and IHS Markit. We conduct an out-of-sample, real-time forecast experiment for growth of gross domestic product and growth of gross value added...
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Knowledge Intensity and Gender Wage Gaps : Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
BARZA, Radu - 2020
Do knowledge intense jobs exhibit lower gender gaps in wages? Here we use a linked employeremployee dataset of the entire Brazilian formal labor force to study the relationship between gender wage gaps and the knowledge intensity of industries and occupations. We find that employees in...
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The Effect of Dispatch Methods on a Recruiting Campaign for a Business Survey : Evidence from Germany
Brandt, Przemyslaw - 2020
The ifo Institute for Economic Research has been conducting the ifo business survey since its foundation in 1949. To ensure stability of participation rates, regular sample recruitment is indispensable. Does the dispatch method matter for response rates of a recruiting campaign? To answer this...
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The Social Cost of Contacts : Theory and Evidence for the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany
Quaas, Martin F. - 2020
Building on the epidemiological SIR model we present an economic model with heterogeneous individuals deriving utility from social contacts creating infection risks. Focusing on social distancing of individuals susceptible to an infection we theoretically analyze the gap between private and...
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Sales and Markup Dispersion : Theory and Empirics
Mrazova, Monika - 2019
We derive exact conditions relating the distributions of firm productivity, sales, output, and markups to the form of demand in monopolistic competition. Applications include a new “CREMR” demand function (Constant Revenue Elasticity of Marginal Revenue): it is necessary and sufficient for...
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