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Is Innovative Firm Behavior Correlated with Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce? Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian - 2012

development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly …

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Intra-Industry Adjustment to Import Competition : Theory and Application to the German Clothing Industry

Raff, Horst - 2009

This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import competition. The model predicts that in the short run the least efficient firms in the industry become inactive, surviving firms face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the...

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Subsidies and Exports in Germany : First Evidence from Enterprise Panel Data

Girma, Sourafel - 2009

We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate … an impact of subsidies on the share of exports in total sales in West Germany but no evidence in East Germany …

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The Changing Situation of Labor Market Entrants in Germany : A Long-Run Analysis of Wages and Occupational Patterns

Reinhold, Mario - 2016

similar trend in Germany. Based on comprehensive, long-run administrative data for the years 1975 to 2010, we use a set of … reveal similarities between Germany and the U.S. in terms of some declining fortunes of the young. However, whereas in the U ….S. college educated workers have been affected, the results indicate that in Germany the medium-skilled and low-skilled have been …

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New Evidence on the Effects of the Shortened School Duration in the German States : An Evaluation of Post-Secondary Education Decisions

Meyer, Tobias - 2015

Most German states have reformed university preparatory schooling during the last decade by reducing its duration from 13 to 12 years without changing the graduation requirements. In this paper, we use nationwide data on high school graduates and apply a difference-in-differences approach to...

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Did Tuition Fees in Germany Constrain Students' Budgets? New Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2014

Less than a decade ago, several German states introduced tuition fees for university education. Despite their comparatively low level, fees were perceived by the public to increase social injustice, and have been abolished. Whereas other studies have shown no effect on enrollment, we analyze the...

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Entry, Exit and Productivity : Empirical Results for German Manufacturing Industries

Wagner, Joachim - 2007

paper replicates the study using unique newly available panel data sets for all manufacturing plants from Germany (1995 …

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The (Parlous) State of German Unions

Addison, John T. - 2006

German considerations (such as the transition process in post-communist Eastern Germany) and sustained intervals of classic …

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The Immigrant-Native Wage Gap in Germany Revisited

Ingwersen, Kai - 2019

This study provides new evidence on the levels of economic integration experienced by foreigners and naturalised immigrants relative to native Germans from 1994 to 2015. We decompose the wage gap using the method for unconditional quantile regression models by employing a regression of the...

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Explaining Regional Disparities in Housing Prices Across German Districts

Brausewetter, Lars; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Trunzer, Johannes - 2022

Over the last decade, German housing prices have increased unprecedentedly. Drawing on quality-adjusted housing price data at the district level, we document large and increasing regional disparities: growth rates were higher in 1) the largest seven cities, 2) districts located in the south, and...

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