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Would a legal minimum wage reduce poverty? A microsimulation study for Germany

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2008

an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of the introduction of a nationwide legal … and had no negative employment effects. The ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is mainly due to the existing …

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Two steps forward - one step back? Evaluating contradicting child care policies in Germany

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2014

reforms in Germany that were introduced simultaneously in August 2013. First, a legal claim to subsidized child care became …

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The family working time model: Toward more gender equality in work and care

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Neumann, Michael; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2016

Since the millennium, the labor market participation of women and mothers is increasing across European countries. Several work/care policy measures underlie this evolution. At the same time, the labor market behavior of men and fathers, as well as their involvement in care work, is relatively...

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A welfare analysis of the electricity transmission regulatory regime in Germany

Kemfert, Claudia; Kunz, Friedrich; Rosellón, Juan - 2015

We analyze the current regulatory regime for electricity transmission in Germany, which combines network planning with …

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Do entrepreneurs really earn less?

Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander - 2014

Based on representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our …

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Why did self-employment increase so strongly in Germany?

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Sorgner, Alina - 2015

Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification … employees and the overall level of self-employment in West Germany, their explanatory power is much lower for the stronger … increase of solo self-employment and of self-employment in former socialist East Germany. …

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Who starts a business and who is self-employed in Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Rusakova, Alina - 2012

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …

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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 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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Gone with the wind? Electricity market prices and incentives to invest in thermal power plants under increasing wind energy supply

Traber, Thure; Kemfert, Claudia - 2009

The increased wind energy supplied to many electricity markets around the world has to be balanced by reliable back up units or other complementary measures when wind conditions are low. At the same time wind energy impacts both, the utilization of thermal power plants and the market prices....

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