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The German productivity paradox : facts and explanations

Elstner, Steffen; Feld, Lars P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2018

Despite massive digitization efforts, the German economy has experienced a marked slowdown in its productivity growth. This paper analyzes the reasons behind this disconcerting development. A major factor is the turnaround of the labor market that commenced around 2005. The successful...

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Time use, unemployment, and well-being : an empirical analysis using British time-use data

Hoang, Thi Truong An; Knabe, Andreas - 2019

We use nationally representative data from the UK Time-Use Survey 2014/2015 to investigate how a person's employment status is related to time use and cognitive and affective dimensions of subjective well-being. We find that unemployed persons report substantially lower levels of life...

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The regional effects of a national minimum wage

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Roth, Duncan; Seidel, Tobias - 2018 - Version: February 2018

We estimate the spatially differential effects of a nationally uniform minimum wage that was introduced in Germany in … 2015. To this end, we use a micro data set covering the universe of employed and unemployed individuals in Germany from …

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Do parties punish MPs for voting against the party line?

Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas; Riem, Marina - 2017

We examine whether parties punish politicians who vote against the party line in roll-call votes. Using data of German members of parliament over the legislative period 2009-2013, we take into account that the effect of punishment differs along the list of candidates because a candidate is...

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Plan responses to diagnosis-based payment : evidence from Germany's morbidity-based risk adjustment

Bauhoff, Sebastian; Fischer, Lisa; Göpffarth, Dirk; … - 2017

Many competitive health insurance markets adjust payments to participating health plans according to their enrollees' risk - including based on diagnostic information. We investigate responses of German health plans to the introduction of morbidity-based risk adjustment in the Statutory Health...

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Public infrastructure and regional resilience : evidence from the 1918 Spanish flu in Germany

Foertsch, Mona; Rösel, Felix - 2023

Can public infrastructure help regions to mitigate large shocks? We examine how hospital infrastructure contributes to regional resilience in the event of serious health emergencies. During the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, four out of every 1,000 Germans died. We find lower influenza mortality...

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Regional industrial effects in Germany from a potential gas deficit

Lehmann, Robert; Schult, Christoph - 2023 - This version: October 12, 2023

We estimate potential regional industrial effects in case of a threatening gas deficit. For Germany, the reduction …

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Earnings assimilation of post-reunification East German migrants in West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Sauer, Irakli - 2024

We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We … to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The analysis uses administrative as well as survey data. The results … suggest that East Germans faced significant initial earnings disadvantages in West Germany, even conditional on age and …

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The forecasting power of the ifo business survey

Lehmann, Robert - 2020

The ifo Institute is Germany’s largest business survey provider, with the ifo Business Climate Germany as one of the …

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The separation and reunification of Germany : rethinking a natural experiment interpretation of the enduring effects of communism

Becker, Sascha O.; Mergele, Lukas; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020

East and West Germany were far from being randomly selected treatment and control groups. First, the later border is … occupying forces affected East and West differently. Third, a selective fifth of the population fled from East to West Germany …

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