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

Buch, Claudia M.; Koch, Cathérine Tahmee; Koetter, 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 banks benefit from internationalization? : Revisiting the market power-risk nexus

Buch, Claudia M.; Koch, Cathérine Tahmee; Koetter, Michael - 2010

groups and of different size. -- Market power-risk nexus ; international banking ; micro-data ; Germany …

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Determinants of German FDI : new evidence from micro-data

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

This paper provides new evidence on the foreign direct investment stocks of German firms. We use firm-level data for the years 1990-2000 to describe the regional and sectoral patterns of German FDI through gravity-type equations. We provide evidence on the patterns of FDI by sector, by size of...

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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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Business cycles and FDI: evidence from German sectoral data

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

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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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Establishment age and wages : evidence from German linked employer-employee data

Kölling, Arnd; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2002

Prominent reasons why people make more or less money in the labor market include personal characteristics of the employee (e.g., human capital or gender), job characteristics (working conditions demanding compensating wage differentials), and characteristics of the employer (e.g., industry or...

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