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Technology-Skill Complementarity in the Early Phase of Industrialization
Franck, Raphael - 2016
The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study establishes that, in contrast to conventional wisdom that views early industrialization as a predominantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997443
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Labor Market Adjustments after a Large Import Shock : Evidence from the German Clothing Industry and the Multi-Fibre Arrangement
Braakmann, Nils - 2009
This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by the phasing out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement. Using the German shoe industry as a control group and administrative data, we study adjustments on the individual and firm level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153171
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Productivity and Size of the Export Market : Evidence for West and East German Plants, 2004
Wagner, Joachim - 2021
first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading … actor on the world market for manufactured goods. It documents that firms that export to countries inside the euro-zone are … more productive than firms that sell their products in Germany only, but less productive than firms that export to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317178
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Complementarity in Employee Participation Systems : International Evidence
Burdin, Gabriel; Kato, Takao - 2022
seemingly disparate forms of work practices in different parts of the world, we shed light on how participatory work practices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014087460
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Measuring Richness and Poverty : A Micro Data Application to Europe and Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Schaefer, Thilo; Scheicher, Christoph - 2021
demonstrate the application of these new measures to analyze the development of poverty and richness over time in Germany, to … compare Germany to many other European countries and to investigate the impact of tax reforms on poverty and richness. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324879
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Comparative Statics for a Consumer with Possibly Multiple Optimum Consumption Bundles
Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2010
Non-positivity of the generalized substitution effect, non-positivity of the own-price substitution effect, homogeneity of degree zero in all prices and income, and the law of demand are some of the most primitive comparative static results in the standard revealed preference theory of...
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Strategic Compromise, Policy Bundling and Interest Group Power
Bellani, Luna; Fabella, Vigile Marie; Scervini, Francesco - 2021
Policy reforms are often multifaceted. In the rent-seeking literature policies are usually taken as one-dimensional. This paper models policy formation using a political contest with endogenous policy proposals containing two dimensions. The two dimensions provide an opportunity to trade off one...
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Start-Up Success of Freelancers : New Microeconometric Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel
Merz, Joachim - 2006
If certain start-up characteristics will indicate a business success, knowing such characteristics could generate more successful start-ups and more efficient start-up counseling. Our study will contribute to this by quantifying individual success determinants of freelance start-ups. The data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780455
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Structural Reform in Germany
Krebs, Tom - 2016
proposals for Germany: i) a reduction in the social security tax in the low-wage sector, ii) a publicly financed expansion of … deregulation reform are relatively small due to the small size of the professional services in Germany.Policy reforms i) and ii …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996554
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The Spread of Anti-Trafficking Policies : Evidence from a New Index
Cho, Seo-Young - 2011
We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128229