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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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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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Margins of International Banking : Is There a Productivity Pecking Order in Banking, Too?

Buch, Claudia M. - 2013

Modern trade theory emphasizes firm-level productivity differentials to explain the cross-border activities of non-financial firms. This study tests whether a productivity pecking order also determines international banking activities. Using a novel dataset that contains all German banks'...

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What Causes Cross-industry Differences of Technical Efficiency? An Empirical Investigation

Fritsch, Michael; Stephan, Andreas - 2004

Using micro-level panel data of about 35,000 firms from the German Cost Structure Census, we analyze the differences of technical efficiency across industries. Technical efficiency is estimated by firms? fixed effects. One striking result is that the distribution of technical efficiency across...

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Optimal income taxation of married couples: an empirical analysis of joint and individual taxation

Haan, Peter; Navarro, Dolores - 2008

In this paper we develop a discrete model of optimal taxation of married couples and empirically discuss the optimality of income taxation for this group. To this end, we derive the social welfare function which guarantees that joint taxation of married couples is optimal. We will contrast this...

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A structural approach to estimating the effect of taxation on the labor market dynamics of older workers

Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - 2009

We estimate a dynamic structural life-cycle model of employment, non-employment and retirement that includes endogenous accumulation of human capital and intertemporal non- separabilities in preferences. Additionally, the model accounts for the effect of the tax and transfer system on work...

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