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Cumulation of Cross-Section Surveys : Evaluation of Alternative Concepts for the Cumulated Continuous Household Budget Surveys (LWR) 1999 Until 2003 Compared to the Sample Survey o...

Merz, Joachim - 2010

With the development of household budget systems and with regard to the requirements of the European Union with new EU-SILC approaches, the cumulation of cross-section surveys to an integrated information system is recently discussed and required. In particular the reconstruction of household...

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Entrepreneurship, Wealth, Liquidity Constraints and Start-Up Costs

Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Sopraseuth, Thepthida - 2021

We study the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship between wealth and the fraction of entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model with endogenous wealth and entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts that, with liquidity...

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Monopsony Makes Firms Not Only Small But Also Unproductive : Why East Germany Has Not Converged

Bachmann, Rüdiger; Bayer, Christian; Stueber, Heiko; … - 2022

consequences for aggregate labor productivity. Using high-quality administrative data from Germany, we document that East German … percent lower aggregate labor productivity in East Germany …

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The German Labor Market During the Great Recession : Shocks and Institutions

Gehrke, Britta - 2018

This paper analyzes Germany's unusual labor market experience during the Great Recession. We estimate a general equilibrium model with a detailed labor market block for post-unification Germany. This allows us to disentangle the role of institutions (short-time work, government spending rules)...

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Does Short-Time Work Save Jobs? A Business Cycle Analysis

Balleer, Almut - 2013

In the Great Recession most OECD countries used short-time work (publicly subsidized working time reductions) to counteract a steep increase in unemployment. We show that short-time work can actually save jobs. However, there is an important distinction to be made: While the rule-based component...

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Real and Nominal Wage Rigidities and the Rate of Inflation : Evidence from German Micro Data

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bonin, Holger; Sunde, Uwe - 2021

due to nominal, but mostly real wage rigidity is substantial. The extent of real rigidity rises with inflation, whereas …, is most likely minimized in an environment with moderate inflation …

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Self-Selection into Export Markets by Business Services Firms : Evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom

Temouri, Yama - 2010

and productivity hold in the years before the export start, which indicates self-selection into exporting of more …

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The Exporter Productivity Premium Along the Productivity Distribution : First Evidence from a Quantile Regression Approach for Fixed Effects Panel Data Models

Powell, David - 2010

productive than firms that only sell on the national market. This positive exporter productivity premium shows up in a large … firm fixed effects. These studies test for a difference in productivity between exporters and non-exporters at the … conditional mean of the productivity distribution. However, if firms are heterogeneous, it is possible that the size of the …

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North-South Trade-Related Technology Diffusion : Virtuous Growth Cycles in Latin America

Schiff, Maurice - 2012

This paper examines the impact on TFP in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and in other developing countries (DEV) of trade-related foreign R&D (NRD), education and governance. The measures of NRD are constructed based on industry-specific R&D in the North, North-South trade patterns, and...

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The German Manufacturing Sector is a Granular Economy

Wagner, Joachim - 2011

Using the approach suggested by Gabaix (Econometrica 2011) this paper demonstrates that idiosyncratic shocks in the largest firms are important for an understanding of aggregate volatility in German manufacturing industries. The implications of this finding for theoretical and empirical research...

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