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Social custom, free-riders, and trade union membership in Germany and Great Britain
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283773
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The Dynamics of Child Poverty: Britain and Germany Compared
Jenkins, Stephen P.; Schluter, Christian; Wagner, Gert G. - 2000
We compare patterns of movements into and out of poverty by children in Britain and Germany using data from the British … Household Panel Survey and the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1992-7. Compared to Germany, in Britain poverty …Wir vergleichen die Muster der Armutsdynamik bei Kindern in Großbritannien und Deutschland anhand der Daten der British …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260755
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324228
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264999
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The returns to cognitive abilities and personality traits in Germany
Heineck, Guido; Anger, Silke - 2008
earnings for Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we employ scores from an ultra-short IQ-test and a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265041
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272036
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A nation-wide laboratory : Examining trust and trustworthiness by integrating behavioral experiments into representative surveys
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; von Rosenbladt, Bernhard; … - 2002
the power of our approach with the analysis of trust and trustworthiness in Germany by combining representative survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276356
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The institutional framework of ethnic inclusion and exclusion: A cross-national analysis of the earnings of foreigners in Germany and immigrants in Canada
Reitz, Jeffrey G.; Frick, Joachim R.; Calabrese, Tony; … - 1998
overall extent, of ethnic inclusion and exclusion. Focussing on foreigners in Germany and immigrants in Canada as illustrative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283781
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Social networks, job search methods and reservation wages: Evidence for Germany
Caliendo, Marco; Schmidl, Ricarda; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2010
novel data set of unemployed individuals in Germany containing extensive information on job search behavior and direct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285749