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Overtime work, overtime compensation and the distribution of economic well-being : evidence for West Germany and Great Britain

Pannenberg, Markus; Wagner, Gert G. - 2001

Using panel data for West Germany and Great Britain, we show that there are striking differences in overtime work and … the evolution of the monthly labour earnings distribution and individual economic well-being differently in West Germany … regards to West Germany, we show that the current policy of transforming paid overtime in "working time accountsʺ, which is …

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Why do firms recruit internationally? : Results from the IZA international employer survey 2000

Winkelmann, Rainer - 2001

The paper studies the demand for foreign graduates at the firm level. Using a unique dataset on recruitment policies of firms in four European countries, the determinants of demand for internationally mobile high-skilled employees are established. I investigate the number, origin, skills, and...

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Social custom, free-riders, and trade union membership in Germany and Great Britain

Goerke, Laszlo - 1998

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Umfang und Kompensation von Überstunden : eine vergleichende Analyse für Westdeutschland und Großbritannien

Pannenberg, Markus - 2000

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Is job stability declining in Germany? : evidence from count data models

Winkelmann, Rainer - 1998

The macro evidence of increased adjustment pressure since the early seventies suggests that job mobility should have increased. Hence, retrospective and spell data from the German Socio-Economic Panel are combined in order to test the hypothesis that job stability for German workers declined...

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Financing on-the-job training : shared investment or promotion based system? ; Evidence from Germany

Pannenberg, Markus - 1996 - Rev.

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Central bank intervention and exchange rate expectations : evidence from the daily DM/US-Dollar exchange rate

Reitz, Stefan - 2002

In this paper we propose a generalisation of the noise trader transmission mechanism to examine the impact of central bank intervention on exchange rates. Within a heterogeneous expectations exchange rate model intervention operations are supposed to provide support to either chartist or...

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A Vectorautoregressive Investment Model (VIM) and monetary policy transmission : panel evidence from German firms

Breitung, Jörg; Chirinko, Robert S.; Kalckreuth, Ulf von - 2003

This paper proposes a new framework for studying the effects of monetary policy on business investment. Important ambiguities with the modeling of investment dynamics and interactions between real and financial decisions suggest modeling investment spending as a VAR. Based on a panel of...

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Determinants of German FDI : new evidence from micro-data

Toubal, Farid; Kleinert, Jörn; Buch, Claudia M. - 2003

This paper provides new evidence on the foreign direct investment stocks of German firms. We use firm-level data for the years 1990-2000 to describe the regional and sectoral patterns of German FDI through gravity-type equations. We provide evidence on the patterns of FDI by sector, by size of...

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German works councils old and new : incidence, coverage and determinants

Addison, John T.; Bellmann, Lutz; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2002

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