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Goerke, Laszlo - 2010

In Germany, there is no trade union membership wage premium, while the membership fee amounts to 1% of the gross wage … evidence for a private gain from trade union membership which has hitherto not been documented: in West Germany, union members …

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Trade Union Membership and Sickness Absence : Evidence from a Sick Pay Reform

Goerke, Laszlo - 2012

In 1996, statutory sick pay was reduced for private sector workers in Germany. Using the empirical observation that …

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Social custom, free-riders, and trade union membership in Germany and Great Britain

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 1998

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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 …

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Do Better Capitalized Banks Lend Less? Long-Run Panel Evidence from Germany

Buch, Claudia M. - 2013

Insufficient capital buffers of banks have been identified as one main cause for the large systemic effects of the recent financial crisis. Although higher capital is no panacea, it yet features prominently in proposals for regulatory reform. But how do increased capital requirements affect...

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Do Parties Punish MPs for Voting against the Party Line?

Kauder, Bjoern - 2017

We examine whether parties punish politicians who vote against the party line in roll-call votes. Using data of German members of parliament over the legislative period 2009-2013, we take into account that the effect of punishment differs along the list of candidates because a candidate is...

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Manipulating Fiscal Forecasts : Evidence from the German States

Kauder, Bjoern - 2017

We examine whether German state governments manipulated fiscal forecasts before elections. Our data set includes three fiscal measures over the period 1980-2014. The results do not show that electoral motives influenced fiscal forecasts in West German states. By contrast, East German state...

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Regional Origins of Employment Volatility : Evidence from German States

Buch, Claudia M. - 2008

increase uncertainty through a higher volatility of employment. We use regional data from Germany to test whether openness for …

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Outside Earnings, Absence, and Activity : Evidence from German Parliamentarians

Arnold, Felix - 2014

We examine moonlighting by politicians in Germany. In July 2007, the German Supreme Court adjudicated that members of … contributions, interpellations, and group initiatives. We propose that the results for Germany do not corroborate evidence on other …

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The Growth in Military Expenditure in Germany 1951-2011 : Did Parties Matter?

Kauder, Bjoern - 2015

We examine whether government ideology was correlated with the growth in military expenditure in Germany over the …

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