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The personal distribution of income and imputed rent: A cross-national comparison for the UK, West Germany, and the USA

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2002

differences between the Anglo-Saxon countries and Germany in terms of prevalence and extent of IR as well as in terms of the …

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Item non-response and imputation of annual labor income in panel surveys from a cross-national Perspective

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2007

Using data on annual individual labor income from three representative panel datasets (German SOEP, British BHPS, Australian HILDA) we investigate a) the selectivity of item non-response (INR) and b) the impact of imputation as a prominent post-survey means to cope with this type of measurement...

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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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Short-Run and Long-Term Effects of Childbirth on Mother's employment and working hours across institutional regimes : an empirical analysis based on the European community househol...

Geyer, Johannes; Steiner, Viktor - 2007

Denmark, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, which represent four distinct ?institutional regimes?, we estimate the short …

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Clustering or competition? The foreign investment behaviour of German banks

Lipponer, Alexander; Buch, Claudia M. - 2004

The presence of other firms in a foreign market can have a double-edged effect on the profitability of new entrants. Firstly, a larger presence of other firms implies more competition and thus lowers the earnings prospects of new entrants. Secondly, there might be positive spill-over effects...

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Business cycles and FDI: evidence from German sectoral data

Buch, Claudia M.; Lipponer, Alexander - 2005

Globalization has effected business cycle developments in OECD countries and has increased activities of firms across national borders. This paper analyzes whether these two developments are linked. We use a new firm-level dataset on the foreign activities of German firms to test whether foreign...

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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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Does trade openness increase firm-level volatility?

Strotmann, Harald; Döpke, Jörg; Buch, Claudia M. - 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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Volatile multinationals? Evidence from the labor demand of German firms

Buch, Claudia M.; Lipponer, Alexander - 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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