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A dynamic heterogeneous labour demand model for German manufacturing

Falk, Martin; Koebel, Bertrand M. - 2000

This paper presents an application of the Generalised Error Correction Model (GECM) for heterogeneous factor demands based on the quadratic cost function. Using data for 26 West German manufacturing industries over the period 1976-1995, it turns out that less general specifications such as the...

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Offshoring and labor income risk

Hogrefe, Jan; Yao, Yao - 2012

This paper analyzes the impact increased offshoring has on labor income risk. It is therefore distinct from a large number of studies explaining the level effects of globalization on the labor market in that it takes a look at effects on second moments, i.e. the variance of incomes. It provides...

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Employment and wage effects of social security financing : an empirical analysis of the West German experience and some policy simulations

Steiner, Viktor - 1996

This paper follows up recent work on the relationship between (un-)employment and wage effects of social security …

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Gender identity and wives' labor market outcomes in West and East Germany between 1984 and 2016

Sprengholz, Maximilian; Wieber, Anna; Holst, Elke - 2019

We exploit the natural experiment of German reunification in 1990 to investigate if the institutional regimes of the formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped different gender identity prescriptions of family...

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Undoing gender with institutions: Lessons from the German division and reunification

Lippmann, Quentin; Georgieff, Alexandre; … - 2019

Using the 41-year division of Germany as a natural experiment, we show that the GDR's gender-equal institutions created …

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Math, girls and socialism

Lippmann, Quentin; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2018

gender gap in math is due to social stereotypes; (2) institutions can durably modify these stereotypes. …

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Law and social capital: Evidence from the Code Napoleon in Germany

Buggle, Johannes C. - 2013

Do legal institutions affect norms of cooperation? Using the introduction of the Code Napoleon during the Napoleonic … Wars in Germany as a historical experiment, I show that a positive shock to the quality of legal institutions can increase … be a potential mechanism for the relationship between legal institutions and social capital. …

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Let‘s stay in touch – evidence on the role of social learning in local tax interactions

Blesse, Sebastian; Martin, Thorsten - 2015

change in spatial lag IV regressions, we find that institutions like counties and jointly used administrations yield …

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Private patent protection in the theory of Schumpeterian growth

Davis, Lewis S.; Şener, Fuat - In: European economic review : EER 56 (2012) 7, pp. 1446-1460

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Imputation rules for the implementation of the pre-unication education variable in the BASiD data set

Gürtzgen, Nicole; Nolte, André - 2016

Using combined data from the German Pension Insurance and the Federal Employment Agency (BASiD), this study proposes different procedures for imputing the pre-unification education variable in the BASiD data. To do so, we exploit information on education-related periods that are creditable for...

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