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study a reform in Germany that abruptly abolished this mandate for certain firms incorporated after August 1994 but locked …
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-wing preferences and attitudes towards immigration. Using longitudinal data from Germany, our intergenerational estimates suggest that …
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There is a large body of literature analyzing the relationship between objective economic conditions and voting behavior, but there is very little evidence of how perceived economic insecurity impacts on political preferences. Using seventeen years of household panel data from the German...
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Research on the consequences of works councils has been dominated by economic aspects. Our study provides evidence that works councils have nonfinancial consequences for civic society that go beyond the narrow boundaries of the workplace. Using panel data from a large sample of male workers, the...
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representation ; firm performance ; Germany …
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The compensation of executive board members in Germany has become a highly controversial topic since Vodafone's hostile … unique panel data evidence of the 500 largest firms in Germany in the period 1977-2009 we test two prominent hypotheses in … manager power hypothesis for Germany as executives tend to be rewarded when the sector is doing well rather than the firm they …
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, especially in societies with highly skewed distribution of ownership. We however argue that the success of CG reform would, in …. -- corporate governance reform ; transparency and disclosure rules ; conflict between state and the controlling owner ; taxation …
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In most countries Parliamentary immunity protects lawmakers from civil or criminal charges while in office, and it shields them from prosecution for their political speech or political actions. This paper presents the first empirical analysis in the literature of the impact of Parliamentary...
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predicts that the portability reform will increase internal plan switching. However, under plausible assumptions, it will not … increase external insurer switching. Moreover, the portability reform will enable unhealthier enrollees to reoptimize their …
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German economy since 1995: 1) Germany offshores more intensively than other advanced countries; 2) The increase in … competitiveness and in the exports/production ratio occurs before the implementation of the labour market reform, and this comes with … both higher inequality and higher unemployment; 3) The implementation of the reform reduces unemployment, but also …
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