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Business strategy and firm reorganization under changing market conditions
Ghosal, Vivek - 2009
this paper is an observation-based analysis conducted by visiting selected paper mills in Finland, the U.S., Germany and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850304
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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US? : selective features of immigration to four major OECD countries
Geis, Wido (contributor); Uebelmesser, Silke (contributor);  … - 2008
of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771831
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Minimum wage incidence : the case for Germany
Knabe, Andreas (contributor); Schöb, Ronnie (contributor) - 2008
Using data from the 2006 wave of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper analyzes how a minimum wage affects employment, wage inequality, public expenditures, and aggregate income in the low-wage sector. It is shown that a statutory minimum wage of EUR 7.50 per hour would cost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771867
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Induced civic pride and integration
Süßmuth, Bernd; Heyne, Malte; Maennig, Wolfgang - 2009
World Cup finals were the first mega-event hosted by reunified Germany. We use this landmark event in German contemporary … history to investigate how the integration of the two parts of Germany progressed after 18 years of reunification. We still …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003818015
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Subprime crisis and board (in-)competence : private vs. public banks in Germany
Hau, Harald; Thum, Marcel - 2009
We examine evidence for a systematic underperformance of Germany's state-owned banks in the current financial crisis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850179
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Complementarity of innovation policies in the Brazilian industry : an econometric study
Strube, Eduardo; Resende, Marcelo - 2009
The paper aims at assessing discrete complementarities in innovation policies in the context of the Brazilian industry in 2003. The paper considers the approach advanced by Mohnen and and Röller [European Economic Review, 2005] that focuses on supermodularity and submodularity tests for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003883864
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Don't raise the retirement age! : an experiment on opposition to pension reforms and East-West differences in Germany
Scheubel, Beatrice; Schunk, Daniel; Winter, Joachim - 2009
; public opinion poll ; PAYG pension system ; East Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872791
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The employment of mothers : recent developments and their determinants in East and West Germany
Hanel, Barbara; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2010
. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences … time. -- employment ; mothers ; parental leave ; East Germany ; child care …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697044
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A different look at Lenin's legacy : trust, risk, fairness and cooperativeness in the two Germanies
Heineck, Guido; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2010
question, we use the reunification of Germany as a natural experiment and study the post-reunification trajectory of …. In comparison to West Germans, they are also less inclined to see others as fair or helpful. Implied trajectories can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697515
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From politics to the family : how sex-role attitudes keep on diverging in reunified Germany
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Rainer, Helmut - 2010
this background, we empirically investigate gender-role attitudes in reunified Germany. Our results show that East Germans …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003938702