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Long-term effects of unpaid overtime : evidence for West Germany
Pannenberg, Markus - 2002
Why do people work unpaid overtime? We show that remarkable long-term labor earnings gains are associated with unpaid overtime in West Germany. A descriptive analysis suggests that over a 10-year period workers with unpaid overtime experience on average at least a 10 percentage points higher...
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Outsourcing and the demand for low-skill labour in German manufacturing : new evidence
Geishecker, Ingo - 2002
This paper analyses how international outsourcing has affected the relative demand for low skilled workers in Germany during the 1990s. In contrast to previous empirical work, the single elements of the input-output-matrix are used to disentangle international outsourcing and trade in final...
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What makes an entrepreneur and does it pay? : native men, Turks, and other migrants in Germany
Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Zimmermann, … - 2003
This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong entrepreneurial tradition, and the self-employed Turks in Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs...
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How robust are simulated employment effects of a legal minimum wage in Germany? : a comparison of different data sources and assumptions
Müller, Kai-Uwe - 2009
Several empirical minimum wage studies have recently been published that simulate employment effects of a federal minimum wage in Germany. We disentangle various factors that explain the variation in previous simulation results. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and the newly...
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The returns to education for opportunity entrepreneurs, necessity entrepreneurs, and paid employees
Fossen, Frank M.; Büttner, Tobias J. M. - 2012
We assess the relevance of formal education for the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative employment options. We expect differences in the returns to...
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Employment effects of a sectoral minimum wage in Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe - 2010
In this paper employment effects of a sectoral minimum wage in the German construction sector are estimated from a single cross-sectional wage distribution using parametric and semi-parametric models. Parametric functional form assumptions seem too restrictive and lead to implausible results. We...
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The role of aggregate preferences for labor supply - evidence from low-paid employment
Haywood, Luke; Neumann, Michael - 2017
Labor supply in the market for low-paid jobs in Germany is strongly influenced by tax exemptions - even for individuals to whom these exemptions do not apply. We present compelling evidence that an individual's choice set depends on other workers' preferences because firms cater their job offers...
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Productivity in electricity retail after market liberalisation : analysing the effects of ownership and firm's governance structure
Stiel, Caroline; Cullmann, Astrid; Nieswand, Maria - 2015
liberalisation, analyses the effect of ownership and governance structure by using a unique dataset of German electricity retailers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392296
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Gov-arrrgh-nance : Jolly Rogers and Dodgy Rulers
Groot, Olaf J. de; Shortland, Anja - 2010
In this paper, we argue that the effect of governance on the emergence of crimes of different levels of sophistication … improved governance. With further improvements in governance criminal activities decline. We find strong and consistent support … of theft from ships the pattern is quadratic: piracy first rises and then falls as governance improves. -- Piracy …
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Prospective NATO or EU membership and institutional change in transition countries
Belke, Ansgar; Bordon, Ingo; Melnykovska, Inna; … - 2009
the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 … institutional development. -- EU ; NATO ; transition economies ; institutional change ; governance …
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