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

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 1998

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Personality traits and the evaluation of start-up subsidies

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Weißenberger, Martin - 2016

start-up subsidy for unemployed individuals in Germany using propensity score matching under the CIA. Having access to rich …

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Direct evidence for income comparisons and subjective well-being across reference groups

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2015

This note provides evidence for the relationship between income comparisons and subjective well-being (SWB), using novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative income for seven reference groups. We find negative correlations between comparison intensity and SWB...

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Trade Union Membership and Dismissals

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 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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"Take it or go to court" : the impact of sec. 1a of the German protection against dismissal act on severance payments

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2010

on panel data for West Germany indicate that the legal change did have a negative effect on severance pay. -- panel data …

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Margins of international banking : is there a productivity Pecking order in banking, too?

Buch, Claudia M.; Koch, Cathérine Tahmee; Kötter, Michael - 2009

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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Trade union membership and sickness absence : evidence from a sick pay reform

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2012

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

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Do better capitalized banks lend less? : long-run panel evidence from Germany

Buch, Claudia M.; Prieto, Esteban - 2012

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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Severance pay and the shadow of the law : evidence for West Germany

Goerke, Laszlo (contributor); Pannenberg, Markus (contributor) - 2005

Due to the complexity of employment protection legislation (EPL) in Germany, there is notable uncertainty about the …

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