Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 16
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260756
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
New Firm Formation by Industry over Space and Time: A Multi-Level Analysis
Fritsch, Michael; Falck, Oliver - 2003
formation: industry, location and change over time. The data is for West Germany and covers the 1983-97 period. Our analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260649
Cover Image
The Determinants of Debt and (Private-) Equity Financing in Young Innovative SMEs : Evidence from Germany
Zimmermann, Volker; Werwatz, Axel; Schäfer, Dorothea - 2004
Financial theory creates a puzzle. Some authors argue that high-risk entrepreneurs choose debt contracts instead of equity contracts since risky but high returns are of relatively more value for a loan-financed firm. On the contrary, authors who focus explicitly on start-up finance predict that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260685
Cover Image
The determinants of church attendance and religious human capital in Germany : evidence from panel data
Heineck, Guido - 2001
This paper explores determinants of church attendance and the formation of 'religious human capital' in Germany within … find, not too surprisingly, that strength of belief is much lower in the formerly atheistic East Germany. It is however not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260777