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Denmark, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, which represent four distinct ‘institutional regimes’, we estimate the short …
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other countries, this first study on Germany finds true state dependence in low pay jobs and confirms previous results of …
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Denmark, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, which represent four distinct ?institutional regimes?, we estimate the short …
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Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are …, differences in mothers? employment patterns can partly be explained by the different tax systems: While Germany has a system of …
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Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and private child care is only available at considerably higher cost. I use a …
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formation: industry, location and change over time. The data is for West Germany and covers the 1983-97 period. Our analysis …
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social resources on the individual length of unemployment in Germany are analysed with data from the German Socio … to new additional findings. In West-Germany mobile persons and actors with internal control find a job more easily while … in East-Germany social capital has a positive influence on the probability of reemployment. …
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Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However, the possibility to report sick creates an additional moral hazard, since during sickness spells, minimum requirements on search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex-ante...
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We analyze whether start-up rates in different industries systematically change with business cycle variables. Using a unique data set at the industry level, we mostly find correlations that are consistent with counter-cyclical influences of the business cycle on entries in both innovative and...
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Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification … employees and the overall level of self-employment in West Germany, their explanatory power is much lower for the stronger … increase of solo self-employment and of self-employment in former socialist East Germany. …
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