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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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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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What Causes Cross-industry Differences of Technical Efficiency? An Empirical Investigation

Fritsch, Michael; Stephan, Andreas - 2004

Using micro-level panel data of about 35,000 firms from the German Cost Structure Census, we analyze the differences of technical efficiency across industries. Technical efficiency is estimated by firms? fixed effects. One striking result is that the distribution of technical efficiency across...

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Dynamics of earnings and hourly wages in Germany

Myck, Michał; Ochmann, Richard; Qari, Salmai - 2009

2000s in Germany. Our study is the first to decompose this cross-sectional variance into its permanent and transitory parts … permanent component which has driven the strong expansion of cross-sectional inequality during the 2000s in Germany. …

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Household savings decision and income uncertainty

Beznoska, Martin; Ochmann, Richard - 2010

This paper empirically investigates the effects of changes in the interest rate as well as transitory income uncertainty on households' consumption-savings decision. Applying a structural demand model to German survey data, we estimate the uncompensated interest rate elasticity for savings, in...

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