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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260756
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Do Regions with Entrepreneurial Neighbors Perform Better? A Spatial Econometric Approach for German Regions
Pijnenburg, Katharina - 2011
We use a neoclassical production function to analyze the effects of knowledge spillovers via entrepreneurship on economic performance of 337 German districts. To take the spatial dependence structure of the data into account, we estimate a spatial Durbin model. We highlight the importance of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129239
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Social Networks, Job Search Methods and Reservation Wages : Evidence for Germany
Caliendo, Marco - 2010
novel data set of unemployed individuals in Germany containing extensive information on job search behavior and direct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138001
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A Market Screening Model for Price Inconstancies : Empirical Evidence from German Electricity Markets
von Blanckenburg, Korbinian - 2013
In this paper, we develop a market screening model to detect inconstancies in price changes. Although there is a long history of industrial organization research of collusion, price setting behavior, and conduct - a robust model to detect structural changes in market structure was missing so...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013084463
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Benefit Duration, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality : A Regression-Discontinuity Approach
Caliendo, Marco - 2010
unemployment benefits in Germany, which increases from 12 months to 18 months at the age of 45, to identify the effect of extended …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144461
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Business Cycles, Unemployment and Entrepreneurial Entry : First Evidence from Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Pijnenburg, Katharina - 2013
Germany reveals that start-up activities are positively influenced by unemployment rates and that the cyclical component of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014159505
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Business Confidence and Forecasting of Housing Prices and Rents in Large German Cities
Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; Siliverstovs, Boriss - 2015
In this paper, we evaluate the forecasting ability of 115 indicators to predict the housing prices and rents in 71 German cities. Above all, we are interested in whether the local business confidence indicators can allow substantially improving the forecasts, given the local nature of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014148833
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Forecasting the Prices and Rents for Flats in Large German Cities
Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; Mense, Andreas - 2012
In this paper, we make multi-step forecasts of the monthly growth rates of the prices and rents for flats in 26 largest German cities. Given the small time dimension, the forecasts are done in a panel-data format. In addition, we use panel models that account for spatial dependence between the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014040904
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Marginal Employment, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality
Caliendo, Marco; Kuenn, Steffen; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2012
In some countries including Germany unemployed workers can increase their income during job search by taking up …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014167675
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Who Starts a Business and Who is Self-Employed in Germany
Fritsch, Michael - 2012
entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …
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