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. The "Mini-Job" reform in Germany -- introduced on April 1, 2003 -- can be seen in line with these policies, exempting …
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; Germany …
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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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regulations associated with the introduction of conscription in Germany in 1956. We estimate conscription to increase the …
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results in wage setting. It derives a time-varying indicator of union strength and confronts it with annual data for Germany …. -- trade union power ; wage bargaining ; labour share ; Germany …
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This paper provides a snapshot of the stock of immigrants in Germany using the 1995 wave of the Microzensus with a … moderate actual public transfer payment dependence of migrants to Germany with the perception of migrants dependence on public …
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Presenteeism, i.e. attending work while sick, is widespread and associated with significant costs. Still, economic analyses of this phenomenon are rare. In a theoretical model, we show that presenteeism arises due to differences between workers in (health-related) disutility from workplace...
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recent studies analyze the impact of measures of employment promotion for the case of Germany, no comparable study exists on …
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Germany, relatively little is known about their actual impact. To the contrary, past evaluation efforts typically failed to … intervention. This paper argues that Germany lags clearly behind the current evaluation practice of other advanced economies, and …
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This paper contrasts labour participation behaviour and wages of native and immigrant women. Since the impact of family structure on labor supply differs between natives and immigrants, we explicitly distinguish between part-time and full-time jobs. The choice of jobs is accounted for by an...
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