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This paper derives the conditions under which fitness-reducing alleles can survive in a long-run stationary equilibrium for a trading population, extending the results in Saint-Paul (2002) for arbitrary systems of sexual reproduction.
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In this paper, we use a novel firm level dataset for Germany to investigate the effect of sanctions on export behaviour … trade restrictions, we provide further evidence on the indirect effects of sanctions. Analysing the impact on broader …
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international trade increasing competition and therefore the price elasticity of product demand, exporters are predicted to have … exporting on firms' labor demand. Using rich, administrative linked employer-employee panel data from Germany, we explicitly …
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international trade increasing competition and therefore the price elasticity of product demand, exporters are predicted to have … exporting on firms' labor demand. Using rich, administrative linked employer-employee panel data from Germany, we explicitly …
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Trade and migration have become more important in recent years for Austria and Germany. The transition in Central and … and trade is not harming employment and wages. Natives seem to be complements to migrants, at least to those from East … Europe. Trade does not affect wages at all, and hardly affect employment. Thus one can expect that, while the Austrian labour …
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Our paper investigates the link between outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and combining it with industry level information on industries? outsourcing activities from input-output tables. By doing so we can arguably overcome the potential endogeneity bias as well as other...
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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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for social custom effects in the determination of union membership. Using panel data for Germany, we find evidence for …
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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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We develop a simple model which determines the optimal timing of school tracking as the outcome of the trade off … 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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