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Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude - 2011

During World War II, more than one-half million tons of bombs were dropped in aerial raids on German cities, destroying …

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The Economic Integration of Forced Migrants : Evidence for Post-War Germany

Bauer, Thomas K. - 2011

The flight and expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe during and after World War II constitutes one of the largest …

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Children of War : The Long-Run Effects of Large-Scale Physical Destruction and Warfare on Children

Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude - 2009

During World War II, more than one-half million tons of bombs were dropped in aerial raids on German cities, destroying …

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Electoral Democracy at Work

Askenazy, Philippe - 2020

We show that an institutional change designed expressly to heighten competition for the provision of union services can have a substantial effect on unionization and employment relations. We study a French reform of 2008 that introduced mandatory elections for representation of workers at firm,...

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Does Democracy Foster Trust?

Rainer, Helmut - 2006

trusting attitude than West Germans. This suggests a negative effect of communism in East Germany versus democracy in West … Germany on social and institutional trust. However, the experience of democracy by East Germans since reunification did not … more than a decade of democracy, have the same levels of social distrust as shortly after the collapse of communism. In …

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Political Spillovers of Workplace Democracy in Germany

Jirjahn, Uwe; Le, Thi - 2022

While works councils provide a highly developed mechanism to promote workplace democracy, research on their …

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Globalization and Strategic Research Investments

Bohnstedt, Anna - 2011

We develop a general equilibrium model of international trade with heterogeneous firms, where countries can invest into basic research to improve their technological potential. These research investments tighten firm selection and raise the average productivity of firms in the market, thereby...

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Global Sourcing of Complex Production Processes

Schwarz, Christian - 2010

We develop a theory of a firm in an environment with incomplete contracts. The firm's headquarter decides on the complexity, the organization, and the global scale of its production process. Specifically, it decides: i) on the mass of symmetric intermediate inputs that are part of the value...

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Globalised Labour Markets? International Rent Sharing Across 47 Countries

Martins, Pedro S. - 2010

We present evidence about the role of rent sharing in fostering the interdependence of labour markets around the world …

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Growth, Colonization, and Institutional Development : In and Out of Africa

Bertocchi, Graziella - 2011

This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader research agenda which accounts not only for basic economic and demographic factors, but also for the role of history and institutional development. After reporting results from...

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