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Trade union membership and sickness absence : evidence from a sick pay reform

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 33 (2015), pp. 13-25

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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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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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Great moderation at the firm level? : unconditional versus conditional output volatility

Buch, Claudia M. (contributor); Döpke, Jörg (contributor); … - 2008

trends in unconditional firm level and aggregated output volatility in Germany are similar. There has been a long …

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The coordination channel of foreign exchange intervention : a nonlinear microstructural analysis

Reitz, Stefan (contributor); Taylor, Markt P. (contributor) - 2006

The coordination channel has been proposed as a means by which foreign exchange market intervention may be effective, in addition to the traditional portfolio balance and signaling channels. If strong and persistent misalignments of the exchange rate are caused by non-fundamental influences,...

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Analyzing the labor market activity of immigrant families in Germany

Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K.; Sinning, Mathias - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 16 (2009) 5, pp. 510-520

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Margins of international banking : is there a productivity pecking order in banking, too?

Buch, Claudia M.; Koch, Cathérine Tahmee; Koetter, Michael - 2009

Modern trade theory emphasizes firm-level productivity differentials to explain the cross-border activities of non-financial firms. This study tests whether a productivity pecking order also determines international banking activities. Using a novel dataset that contains all German banks’...

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End-user order flow and exchange rate dynamics

Reitz, Stefan (contributor); Schmidt, Markus A. (contributor) - 2007

In this paper we provide evidence for Evans and Lyons' (2005b) model of an information aggregation process in FX markets using a German bank's end-user order flow from 2002 to 2003. Though customer order flow is unambiguously the vehicle incorporating non-public information into exchange rates...

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Do banks benefit from internationalization? : Revisiting the market power-risk nexus

Buch, Claudia M.; Koch, Cathérine Tahmee; Koetter, Michael - 2010

groups and of different size. -- Market power-risk nexus ; international banking ; micro-data ; Germany …

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Firm-specific productivity risk over the business cycle : facts and aggregate implications

Bachmann, Ruediger; Bayer, Christian - 2009

Is time-varying firm-level uncertainty a major cause or amplifier of the business cycle? This paper investigates this question in the context of a heterogeneousfirm RBC model with persistent firm-level productivity shocks and lumpy capital adjustment, where cyclical changes in uncertainty...

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