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For Want of a Cup: The Rise of Tea in England and the Impact of Water Quality on Mortality

Antman, Francisca M. - 2022

This paper explores the impact of water quality on mortality by exploiting a natural experiment. the rise of tea … declines in mortality rates after tea drinking became widespread and following larger volumes of tea imports. Results are …

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Are Nascent Entrepreneurs Jacks-of-All-Trades? A Test of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data

Wagner, Joachim - 2003

In a recent paper Edward Lazear proposed the jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship. Based on a coherent model of the choice between self-employment and paid employment he shows that having a background in a large number of different roles increases the probability of becoming an...

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Norm-Based Trade Union Membership: Evidence for Germany

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2003

social norms. We describe a model, incorporating institutional features of the German labour market, which explicitly allows … for social custom effects in the determination of union membership. Using panel data for Germany, we find evidence for …

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Are Young and Small Firms Hothouses for Nascent Entrepreneurs? Evidence from German Micro Data

Wagner, Joachim - 2004

Using a large recent representative sample of the German population this paper contributes to the entrepreneurship literature by empirically testing the hypothesis that young and small firms are hothouses for nascent entrepreneurs. The empirical estimation takes the rare events nature of...

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The optimal timing of school tracking

Brunello, Giorgio; Giannini, Massimo; Ariga, Kenn - 2004

tracking. We calibrate the model for Germany and study how relative demand shifts toward more general skills and changes in the …

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Unwilling or Unable? : Spatial, Institutional and Socio-Economic Restrictions on Females' Labor Market Access

van Ham, Maarten; Büchel, Felix - 2004

regional unemployment discourages women from entering the labor market. Those who are willing to work find it easier to do so …

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Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in Small Establishments

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Bonin, Holger - 2004

Based on a large employer-employee matched data set, the paper investigates the effects of variable enforcement of German dismissal protection legislation on the employment dynamics in small establishments. Specifically, using a difference-in-differences approach, we study the effect of changes...

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Lockerung des Kündigungsschutzes : Ein Weg zu mehr Beschäftigung?

Bonin, Holger - 2004

A key feature of the recent labor market reforms in Germany is liberalization of dismissal protection legislation. The …Die Lockerung des Kündigungsschutzes ist ein wesentliches Element der im Januar 2004 in Deutschland in Kraft gesetzten … paper discusses the potential labor market effects of this amendment. On the basis of the available theoretical and …

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What a Difference a Y Makes : Female and Male Nascent Entrepreneurs in Germany

Wagner, Joachim - 2004

data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany this paper uses an empirical model for the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261884

Unemployment Benefits and Unemployment Rates of Low-Skilled and Elder Workers in West Germany : A Search Equilibrium Approach

Klasen, Stephan; Wolff, Joachim; Launov, Andrey - 2004

explain the increase in the unemployment rates of unskilled and elder workers in western Germany. To answer this question we …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261909

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