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Foreign ownership and firm survival: First evidence for enterprises in Germany
Wagner, Joachim; Weche Gelübcke, John Philipp - 2011
This paper documents the relationship between foreign ownership and firm survival for enterprises in Germany using … providing the first evidence on the role of foreign ownership for firm survival in Germany, one of the most important … for foreign owned firms in West Germany but not in East Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282635
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Child labor and trade liberalization in Indonesia
Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Sparrow, Robert - 2009
We examine the effects of trade liberalization on child work in Indonesia. Our estimation strategy identifies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271336
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The labor supply and retirement behavior of China's older workers and elderly in comparative perspective
Giles, John; Wang, Dewen; Cai, Wei - 2011
context of work and retirement patterns in Indonesia, Korea, the United States, and the United Kingdom. As is common in many … Korea and Indonesia. Descriptive evidence is presented suggesting that pension eligible workers are far more likely to cease …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282251
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Fiscal decentralisation, local institutions and public goods provision: Evidence from Indonesia
Pal, Sarmistha; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2012
Indonesia on local public spending across communities with different types of local institutions. Our results provide evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291421
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Following Germany's Lead : Using International Monetary Linkages to Identify the Effect of Monetary Policy on the Economy
di Giovanni, Julian; McCrary, Justin; von Wachter, Till - 2005
rates on real output growth for several European countries, using German interest rates as the instrument. We compare this … policy was more independent of Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262211
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Ethnic concentration and language fluency of immigrants in Germany
Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - 2010
German-speakers would increase only modestly even under the counterfactual scenario of a regionally equal distribution of … immigrants across Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269711
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Margins of multinational labor substitution
Muendler, Marc-Andreas; Becker, Sascha O. - 2006
affect employment. Our strategy detects salient adjustments at the extensive margin for German MNEs. With every percentage … increase in German wages, German MNEs allocate 2,000 manufacturing jobs to Eastern Europe at the extensive margin and 4 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267727
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Media slant against foreign owners: Downsizing
Friebel, Guido; Heinz, Matthias - 2012
-wide distributed quality newspapers in Germany, we find that a foreign firm that downsizes in Germany receives almost twice as much …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289889
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Funding self-employment: The role of consumer credit
Kneiding, Christoph; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2011
This paper investigates whether self-employed households use consumer loans - in particular instalment loans and overdrafts - to finance business activities. Controlling for financial and non-financial household variables we show that self-employed households particularly use personal overdrafts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282216
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Reluctant to Reform? A Note on Risk-Loving Politicians and Bureaucrats
Thomas, Tobias; Heß, Moritz; Wagner, Gert G. - 2017
empirical results of a survey of the population in Germany, 175 members of the Federal German Parliament (Bundestag), and 106 … officials ("bureaucrats") from German ministries, this is not the case. Since both politicians and bureaucrats have a higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786946