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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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Financial risk aversion and household asset diversification

Barasinska, Nataliya; Schäfer, Dorothea; Stephan, Andreas - 2008

This paper explores the relationship between risk attitude and asset diversification in household portfolios. We first examine the impact of manifested risk aversion on the total number of distinct assets held in a portfolio (naive diversification). The second part of the paper focuses on a more...

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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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Would a flat tax stimulate entrepreneurship in Germany? A behavioural microsimulation analysis allowing for risk

Fossen, Frank M. - 2008

-employment in Germany. For the estimation I apply a microsimulation model which is based on the tax-benefit model STSM and on …

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Risk aversion and trade union membership

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2008

In an open-shop model of trade union membership with heterogeneity in risk attitudes, a worker's relative risk aversion can affect the decision to join a trade union. Furthermore, a shift in risk attitudes can alter collective bargaining outcomes. Using German panel data (GSOEP) and three novel...

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The private equity premium puzzle revisited: new evidence on the role of heterogeneous risk attitudes

Fossen, Frank M. - 2008

puzzle. The analysis is based on a large, representative panel data set for Germany, which provides information on asset …

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Gender differences in entrepreneurial choice and risk aversion: a decomposition based on a microeconometric model

Fossen, Frank M. - 2009

in Germany. To explain the gender gap, a structural microeconometric model of the transition rates is estimated, which …

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Start-up subsidies for the unemployed: Long-term evidence and effect heterogeneity

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - 2010

(ALMP) in many OECD countries. Germany is a good example where the spending on start-up subsidies for the unemployed …

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Locus of control and job search strategies

Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2010

search behavior using a novel panel data set of newly-unemployed individuals in Germany. Consistent with our theoretical …

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