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Apply with Caution: Introducing UK-Style In-work Support in Germany

Haan, Peter; Myck, Michał - 2006

into the German tax and benefit system. Our simulation results suggest that introducing in-work Tax Credits in Germany … results call for a high degree of caution as far as ?importing? UK-style Tax Credits to Germany is concerned. In-work support …

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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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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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Regional origins of employment volatility : evidence from German states

Buch, Claudia M. (contributor); … - 2008

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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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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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Labor demand during the crisis : what happened in Germany?

Bohachova, Olga; Boockmann, Bernhard; Buch, Claudia M. - 2011 - This version: October 2011

In Germany, the employment response to the post-2007 crisis has been muted compared to other industrialized countries …

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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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