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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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Documentation of sample sizes and panel attrition in the German Socio Economic Panel (GSOEP): (1984 until 1999)

Pannenberg, Markus - 2000

The paper provides information on sample sizes and panel attrition in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) for the years 1984 – 1999. Furthermore, results of the sequential estimation of non-response probabilities for the different subsamples of the GSOEP are described in detail.

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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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What drives housing prices down? Evidence from an international panel

Kholodilin, Konstantin Arkadievich; Menz, Jan-Oliver; … - 2007

Germany in comparison to other OECD countries over 1975-2005. We show that the long-run development of housing markets is … differential development of real housing prices in Canada and Germany is attributed to the specific values of the fundamentals in … these two countries. Canada and Germany are characterized by relatively low average growth rates of real disposable income …

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What drives the productive efficiency of a firm? The importance of industry, location, R&D, and size

Badunenko, Oleg; Fritsch, Michael; Stephan, Andreas - 2008

This paper investigates the factors that explain the level and dynamics of manufacturing firm productive efficiency. In our empirical analysis, we use a unique sample of about 39,000 firms in 256 industries from the German Cost Structure Census over the years 1992-2005. We estimate the...

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Do forecasters inform or reassure? Evaluation of the German real-time data

Kholodilin, Konstantin Arkadievich; Siliverstovs, Boriss - 2009

The paper evaluates the quality of the German national accounting data (GDP and its use-side components) as measured by the magnitude and dispersion of the forecast/revision errors. It is demonstrated that government consumption series are the least reliable, whereas real GDP and real private...

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Dokumentation des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP): Erhebungsdesign, Fallzahlen und erhebungsbedingte Ausfälle sowie die Schätzung von Ausfallwahrscheinlichkeiten bis Welle 12 (19...

Pannenberg, Markus; Rendtel, Ulrich - 1996

Es wird ein Überblick über das Erhebungsdesign der ersten Welle der SOEP Teilstichproben A (West-Deutsche), B (Ausländer) und C (Ost-Deutsche) gegeben. Weiterhin werden die Weiterverfolgungsregeln des SOEP beschrieben. Die Entwicklung der Fallzahlen wird getrennt für die Teilstichproben im...

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Documentation of sample sizes and panel attrition in the German Socio Economic Panel (GSOEP) (1984 until 1995) [Subsamples A, B, C]

Pannenberg, Markus; Rendtel, Ulrich - 1996

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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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