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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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Unit Labor Cost Growth Differentials in the Euro Area, Germany, and the US: Lessons from PANIC and Cluster Analysis

Fritsche, Ulrich; Kuzin, Vladimir N. - 2007

Inflation differentials in the Euro area are mainly due to a sustained divergence of wage developments across the Euro area, and narrower differences in labour productivity growth (Alvarez et al., 2006). We investigate convergence of inflation using unit labour cost (ULC) growth and applying...

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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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Optimal income taxation of married couples: an empirical analysis of joint and individual taxation

Haan, Peter; Navarro, Dolores - 2008

In this paper we develop a discrete model of optimal taxation of married couples and empirically discuss the optimality of income taxation for this group. To this end, we derive the social welfare function which guarantees that joint taxation of married couples is optimal. We will contrast this...

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A structural approach to estimating the effect of taxation on the labor market dynamics of older workers

Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - 2009

We estimate a dynamic structural life-cycle model of employment, non-employment and retirement that includes endogenous accumulation of human capital and intertemporal non- separabilities in preferences. Additionally, the model accounts for the effect of the tax and transfer system on work...

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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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Asymmetric monetary policy effects in Germany

Tober, Silke; Kuzin, Vladimir N. - 2004

In a small structural model we find asymmetries in the effects of monetary policy in Germany depending on whether the …

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Declining Output Volatility in Germany : Impulses, Propagation, and the Role of Monetary Policy

Fritsche, Ulrich; Kuzin, Vladimir N. - 2004

We analyse the decline in output volatility in Germany. A lower level of variance in an autoregressive model of output … error term variance (reduced impulses). In Germany the decline output volatility is due to a decline in the persistence of … sudden break. The evolution of Germany's short-term real interest rate volatility coincides with the change of the …

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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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