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Disentangling Pay and Productivity in a Corporatist Economy: The Case of Germany
Fuess, Jr. Scott M.; Millea, Meghan - 2002
productivity. But what about in a corporatist economy? Focusing on Germany, we use an innovative technique developed by Geweke to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273751
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Pay and Productivity in a Corporatist Economy: Evidence from Austria
Fuess, Jr. Scott M.; Millea, Meghan - 2001
efficiency benefit of corporatism. For laborers in manufacturing, we find that wage hikes result in productivity gains. Managers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262451
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Employer preferences and social policy: Business and the development of job security regulations in Germany since World War I
Emmenegger, Patrick; Marx, Paul - 2010
This article examines the role of business in the historical development of job security regulations in Germany from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269936
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Does Management Matter in Schools?
Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014
outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468154
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Child poverty and changes in child poverty in rich countries since 1990
Chen, Wen-Hao; Corak, Miles - 2005
This paper documents levels and changes in child poverty rates in 12 OECD countries using data from the Luxembourg Income Study project, and focusing upon an analysis of the reasons for changes over the 1990s. The objective is to uncover the relative role of income transfers from the state in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272015
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Do Europe's minimum income schemes provide adequate shelter against the economic crisis and how, if at all, have governments responded?
Marchal, Sarah; Marx, Ive; Van Mechelen, Natascha - 2011
The present economic crisis comes against the background of decades of policy changes that have generally weakened the capacity of social safety nets to offer citizens with adequate resources for financial survival when labour markets fail to do so. Building on data for 24 European Union...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282192
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A Forgotten Issue: Distributional Effects of Day Care Subsidies in Germany
Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Spieß, Christa Katharina; … - 2000
effectively. In Germany, as in other European countries, child care subsidies are mainly provided ?in-kind?. Local communities and … the distributional effects of state funded child day care in Germany using microdata of households and data on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276750
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Sozioökonomische Determinanten extremistischer Wahlerfolge in Deutschland: Das Beispiel der Europawahlen 1994 und 1999
Rotte, Ralph; Steininger, Martin - 2000
Germany. We use a new data set on the level of German counties (Kreise) that is analyzed econometrically by a FGLS random …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262441
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Generating legitimacy for labor market and welfare state reforms: the role of policy advice in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden
Eichhorst, Werner; Wintermann, Ole - 2005
structured and to what it extent it could influence actual policy-making in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden over the last …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267639
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Generating Legitimacy for Labor Market and Welfare State Reforms: The Role of Policy Advice in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden
Eichhorst, Werner; Wintermann, Ole - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
structured and to what it extent it could influence actual policy-making in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden over the last …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703504