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From the Death of God to the Rise of Hitler
Becker, Sascha O.; Voth, Hans-Joachim - 2023
Can weakened religiosity lead to the rise of totalitarianism? The Nazi Party set itself up as a political religion, emphasizing redemption, sacrifice, rituals, and communal spirit. This had a major impact on its success: Where the Christian Church only had shallow roots, the Nazis received...
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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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Industrial Espionage and Productivity
Glitz, Albrecht; Meyersson, Erik - 2017
's foreign intelligence service to sector-specific gaps in total factor productivity (TFP) between West and East Germany. Based …In this paper, we investigate the economic returns to industrial espionage by linking information from East Germany …–1989, we document a significant narrowing of sectoral West-to-East TFP gaps as a result of East Germany's industrial espionage …
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On the Origin and Composition of the German East-West Population Gap
Eder, Christoph; Halla, Martin - 2018
The East-West gap in the German population is believed to originate from migrants escaping the socialist regime in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). We use newly collected regional data and the combination of a regression discontinuity design in space with a difference-in-differences...
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The Separation and Reunification of Germany: Rethinking a Natural Experiment Interpretation of the Enduring Effects of Communism
Becker, Sascha O.; Mergele, Lukas; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020
East and West Germany were far from being randomly selected treatment and control groups. First, the later border is … occupying forces affected East and West differently. Third, a selective fifth of the population fled from East to West Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207713
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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
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The Ossified Economy: The Case of Germany, 1870-2020
Naudé, Wim; Nagler, Paula - 2022
We describe Germany's rise as an industrial power in the late 19th century through radical innovation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426456
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Immigration and structural change: Evidence from post-war Germany
Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2012
Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of … ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II as a natural experiment to study this question. A … sectors, predicts that immigration boosts output per worker by expanding the high-productivity sector, but decreases output …
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The Productivity Impact of R&D Investment: A Comparison between the EU and the US
Castellani, Davide; Piva, Mariacristina; Schubert, Torben; … - 2016
/EU productivity gap. We find robust evidence that US firms have a higher capacity to translate R&D into productivity gains (especially … in the high-tech industries), and this contributes to explaining the higher productivity of US firms. Conversely, EU … firms are more likely to achieve productivity gains through capital-embodied technological change at least in medium and low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011494309
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The Rise and Fall of German Innovation
Naudé, Wim; Nagler, Paula - 2021
In this paper, we describe the historical co-evolution of innovation and economic growth in Germany since 1871. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012498055