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Self-Selection into Export Markets by Business Services Firms : Evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom
Temouri, Yama - 2010
comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Exporters are more productive and pay higher wages … significantly smaller in Germany, significantly larger in France, and does not differ significantly in the UK. The results for wages …
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Questioning the Stereotype of the 'Malingering Bureaucrat' : Absence from Work in the Public and Private Sector in Germany
Prümer, Stephanie - 2019
for Germany, we indeed find absenteeism of employees to be higher in the public than the private sector. The differences … that the stereotype of the "malingering bureaucrat" seems to be an exaggeration, at least for Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868787
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Absence from work of the self-employed : a comparison with paid employees
Lechmann, Daniel S.; Schnabel, Claus - 2013
Utilising a large representative data set for Germany, this study contrasts absenteeism of self-employed individuals …Unter Verwendung eines großen repräsentativen Datensatzes für Deutschland stellt diese Studie Fehlzeiten von …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010193380
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How Financial Incentives Induce Disability Insurance Recipients to Return to Work
Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal - 2012
experiment that arises from a sharp discontinuity in DI policy in Norway, we provide transparent and credible identification of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103500
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Peer Effects in Program Participation
Dahl, Gordon B. - 2012
overcome these identification issues in the context of paid paternity leave in Norway using a regression discontinuity design … "price" of a social program for a subset of individuals. Fathers of children born after April 1, 1993 in Norway were eligible …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104071
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What is the Case for Paid Maternity Leave?
Dahl, Gordon B. - 2013
Norway which expanded paid leave from 18 to 35 weeks (without changing the length of job protection).Our first empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073505
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No Child Left Behind : Universal Child Care and Children's Long-Run Outcomes
Havnes, Tarjei - 2009
analyze the introduction of universal child care in Norway, addressing the impact on children's long-run outcomes. Our precise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154482
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Money for Nothing? Universal Child Care and Maternal Employment
Havnes, Tarjei - 2009
Norway. Our precise and robust difference-in-differences estimates reveal that there is little, if any, causal effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155157
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Are Lone Mothers Responsive to Policy Changes? Evidence from a Workfare Reform in a Generous Welfare State
Mogstad, Magne - 2009
There is a heated debate in many European countries about a move towards a welfare system that increases the incentives for lone mothers to move off welfare and into work. We analyze the consequences of a major Norwegian workfare reform of the generous welfare system for lone mothers. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155319
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Life Cycle Earnings, Education Premiums and Internal Rates of Return
Bhuller, Manudeep - 2014
What do the education premiums look like over the life cycle? What is the impact of schooling on lifetime earnings? How does the internal rate of return compare with opportunity cost of funds? To what extent do progressive taxes attenuate the incentives to invest in education? This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050626