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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 …

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Prospective NATO or EU membership and institutional change in transition countries

Belke, Ansgar; Bordon, Ingo G.; Melnykovska, Inna; … - 2009

This paper quantifies the impact of incentives related to potential membership on institutional change as measured by the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 we show that pre-accession incentives provided by EU and...

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Land use rights, market transitions, and labor policy change in China (1980-4)

Chen, Yiu-por - 2012

This paper provides a systematic analysis of the way shifts in property utilization rights in China induced another sequence of institutional changes that led to the rise of rural-urban labor migration from 1980 to 1984, a critical period in the country's market transition. I show that the...

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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 - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10008466028

The gradual transformation of continental European labor markets: France and Germany compared

Eichhorst, Werner - 2007

Germany and France are both Continental European welfare states with severe labor market problems such as low …

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The extent of collective bargaining and workplace representation: transitions between states and their determinants ; a comparative analysis of Germany and Great Britain

Addison, John T.; Bryson, Alex; Teixeira, Paulino; … - 2009

Industrial relations are in flux in many nations, perhaps most notably in Germany and the Britain. That said … representation in Germany and still less in both countries about firm transitions between these institutions over time. The present … and the erosion of sectoral bargaining in Germany, and identify the respective roles of behavioral and compositional …

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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

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261767

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