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Self-Employment : Way to End Unemployment? Empirical Evidence from German Pseudo-Panel Data

Glocker, Daniela - 2007

basis of pseudo-panel data for Germany in the period 1996-2002. The estimation method accounts for cohort fixed effects and …

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Income Taxes and Entrepreneurial Choice : Empirical Evidence from Germany

Fossen, Frank M. - 2007

Germany, the top marginal income tax rates were reduced exclusively for entrepreneurs in 1994 and 1999-2000. These tax reforms …

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Does More Generous Student Aid Increase Enrolment Rates into Higher Education? Evaluating the German Student Aid Reform of 2001

Baumgartner, Hans J. - 2007

(BAfoeG) in Germany. We evaluate the effectiveness of a recent reform of student aid that substantially increased the amount …

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Making Work Pay for the Elderly Unemployed : Evaluating Alternative Policy Reforms for Germany

Steiner, Viktor - 2006

effects of these hypothetical reforms are analysed on the basis a detailed micro-simulation model for Germany which includes a …

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Intergenerational Conflict, Partisan Politics, and Public Higher Education Spending : Evidence from the German States

Steiner, Viktor - 2006

We analyze potential effects of demographic change and political constellations on higher education spending. In our panel analysis of west German states (Laender) for the period 1985 to 2002 we find empirical evidence for the hypothesis of a negative relationship between demographic aging and...

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Foreign Ownership and Intra-Firm Union Density in Germany

Jirjahn, Uwe - 2017

From a theoretical viewpoint the relationship between foreign ownership and unionization is ambiguous. On the one hand, foreign owners have better opportunities to undermine workers' unionization. On the other hand, workers of foreign-owned firms have an increased demand for the protection...

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Nonunion Employee Representation : Theory and the German Experience with Mandated Works Councils

Jirjahn, Uwe - 2017

externalities on labor and society are synthesized. Mandated works councils in Germany provide a particularly strong form of …

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Works Councils and Organizational Gender Policies in Germany

Jirjahn, Uwe - 2019

establishments in Germany. Using data of the IAB Establishment Panel, we find that the incidence of a works council is associated …

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Works Councils and Workplace Health Promotion in Germany

Jirjahn, Uwe - 2019

safety. Works councils may help mitigate these failures. Using establishment data from Germany, our empirical analysis …

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Does Society Influence the Gender Gap in Risk Attitudes? Evidence from East and West Germany

Struewing, Cornelia - 2019

attitudes among East and West Germans. Originated from different family policies during Germany's separation, East Germans have …

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