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Firm financing and the relative demand for labor and capital
ElFayoumi, Khalid - 2020
During both the 2008 and the COVID crises, aggregate employment in Europe and the US fell despite continuing growth in the aggregate capital stock. Using more than one million firm-year observations of small and medium European firms between 2003 and 2018, this paper introduces new stylized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012308878
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The effects of labor supply shocks on labor market outcomes : evidence from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Mansour, Hani - 2010
study the effects of labor supply shocks on labor market outcomes. Using quarterly information on wages and employment in … separately from the effects of political instability. The results suggest that low-skilled wages are adversely affected by an … increase in the supply of low- and high-skilled workers, while high- skilled wages are only weakly negatively related to an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003974532
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Winners and losers : fragmentation, trade and wages revisited
Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2004 - Updated version: March 2004
Our paper investigates the link between international outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and … outsourcing has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the … real wage for workers in the lowest skill categories by up to 1.8% while it increased real wages for high-skilled workers …
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Regional patterns of intangible capital, agglomeration effects and localised spillovers in Germany
Geppert, Kurt; Neumann, Anne - 2011
not only at the regional level, but also at the level of establishments. -- Firm productivity ; intangible capital … ; agglomeration ; local spillovers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009426700
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Institutionelle Determinanten der Erwerbsarbeit : zur Notwendigkeit einer Gender-Perspektive in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Holst, Elke - 2001
Institutionen werden in diesem Beitrag als Regeln menschlichen Handelns begriffen. Im einzelnen geht es um eine Analyse der in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften angewandten Regeln zur Untersuchung individueller Erwerbsentscheidungen (rational choice Ansatz), um Regeln, die in Form von...
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Top down or bottom up? : a cross-national study of vertical occupational sex segregation in twelve European countries
Schäfer, Andrea; Tucci, Ingrid; Gottschall, Karin - 2012
Starting with a comparative assessment of different welfare regimes and political economies from the perspective of gender awareness and "pro-women" policies, this paper identifies the determinants of cross-national variation in women's chances of being in a high-status occupation in twelve West...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580114
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European mothers' time with children : differences and similarities across nine countries
Joesch, Jutta M.; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2002
We use data from the 1996 wave of the European Community Household Panel to present and compare the weekly number of hours mothers of children less than 16 years of age reported looking after children in nine European countries in 1996. In addition, we explore to what extent cross-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436997
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Public health insurance and entry into self-employment
Fossen, Frank M.; König, Johannes - 2015
We estimate the impact of a differential treatment of paid employees versus self-employed workers in a public health insurance system on the entry rate into entrepreneurship. In Germany, the public health insurance system is mandatory for most paid employees, but not for the self-employed, who...
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Does Germany have the 'world's highest wage costs'?
Lindlar, Ludger; Scheremet, Wolfgang - 1998
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The effect of maternity leave on women's pay in Germany 1984-1994
Ondrich, Jan I.; Spieß, C. Katharina; Yang, Qing - 2002 - Revised May 2002
In 1986 German federal parental leave and benefit policy was expanded in several ways, extending the potential duration of leave from six to ten months and paying child-rearing benefits to all new mothers regardless of their employment status before childbirth. The potential duration has...
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