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In Germany, the streaming of students into an academic or nonacademic track at age 10 can be revised at later stages of … the German state of Hessen to measure the persistence of school entry age's impact on choice of secondary school track …
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The street food market is a major source of food in developing countries, but is often characterized by unsafe food … food options. Second, although consumers in this market have a positive willingness to pay for food that is perceived as …
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Using data on executive compensation for the German chemical industry, we investigate the relevance of two theoretical approaches that focus on bonuses as part of a long term wage policy of a firm. The first approach argues that explicit bonuses serve as substitutes for implicit career concerns....
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Academic careers in Germany have been under debate for a while. We conduct a survey among postdocs in Germany, to …
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market. After characterizing the general demand models, it reviews consumer baseline based on which further study the demand … case for possible application to the electricity market and discusses the implications of the results. In the literature … and demand response in the power market and their relationships. It enhances demand response in the electricity market …
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simultaneously product and labor market imperfections, this paper quantifies industry differences in both types of imperfections … of Hall's econometric framework for estimating price-cost margins by nesting three labor market settings (perfect … market imperfections. Consistent with differences in institutions and in the industrial relations system in the two countries …
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Using detailed survey data on management practices, this paper uses recent advances in unconditional quantile analysis to study the changes in the within country distribution of management quality associated with country convergence to the managerial frontier. It then decomposes the contribution...
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.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways that allow putting a lower bound on the true …
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East and West Germany. As expected, there are substantial differences with respect to all three of these measures … or redistributive preferences. Nonetheless, individuals from East Germany tend to be more supportive of state …
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In this paper the hypothesis that partnerships between immigrants and natives are less specialized - in the sense that spouses provide similar working hours per weekday - than those between immigrants is tested. The empirical analysis relies on panel data using a two-limit random effects tobit...
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