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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 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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Volatile multinationals? : evidence from the labor demand of German firms

Buch, Claudia M. (contributor); … - 2007

' activities is associated with an increase in firm-level employment volatility. We use a firm-level dataset for Germany which … that are active in Germany. We decompose the volatility of firms into their reaction and their exposure to aggregate …

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Heterogeneity in lending and sectoral growth : evidence from German bank-level data

Buch, Claudia M. (contributor); … - 2006

This paper studies the sectoral and geographical dimensions of the response of bank lending to sectoral growth. We use several bank-level datasets provided by the Deutsche Bundesbank for the 1996-2002 period. Our results show that bank heterogeneity affects how lending responds to domestic...

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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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Business cycles and FDI: evidence from German sectoral data

Buch, Claudia M. (contributor); … - 2005

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Where enterprises lead, people follow? : links between migration and German FDI

Buch, Claudia M.; Kleinert, Jörn; Toubal, Farid - 2003

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Does trade openness increase firm-level volatility?

Buch, Claudia M. (contributor); Döpke, Jörg (contributor); … - 2006

patterns similar to those found in aggregated data for Germany. Also, smaller firms and firms that grow faster are more …

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Business cycle volatility in Germany

Buch, Claudia M.; Döpke, Jörg; Pierdzioch, Christian - 2002

structural breaks in the dynamics and the volatility of the real output process in Germany can be detected. We report evidence … that output volatility has declined in Germany. Yet, this decline in output volatility is not as clear-cut as it is in the … in Germany reflects good economic and monetary policy or merely `good luck'. …

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Clustering or competition? : The foreign investment behaviour of German banks

Buch, Claudia M. (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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