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The rise and fall of the Normalarbeitsverhältnis in Germany
Pierenkemper, Toni - 2009
The following paper attempts to trace the construction of the standard employment contract in Germany from the … consolidation of the welfare state, this type of employment was reinforced in Germany in the 20th century and finally developed into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269080
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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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Education Promoted Secularization
Becker, Sascha O.; Nagler, Markus; Woessmann, Ludger - 2014
Why did substantial parts of Europe abandon the institutionalized churches around 1900? Empirical studies using modern data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of secularization. We construct a unique panel dataset of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352335
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Education Promoted Secularization
Becker, Sascha O.; Nagler, Markus; Woessmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Why did substantial parts of Europe abandon the institutionalized churches around 1900? Empirical studies using modern data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of secularization. We construct a unique panel dataset of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752231
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Der vormoderne Allokationsprozess von Arbeit in Deutschland
Pierenkemper, Toni; Kendzia, Michael J. - 2010
The paper provides a historical overview of the pre-modern allocation of work within the territory of the later Germany … historical roots of the so-called 'standard employment contract' in Germany are investigated. We find that during the pre …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269879
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Nonstandard forms and measures of employment and unemployment in transition: a comparative study of Estonia, Romania, and Russia
Brown, J. David - 2006
employment and unemployment rates are quite sensitive to definition, particularly in the treatment of household production …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267493
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Conceptualising informality: regulation and enforcement
Kanbur, Ravi - 2009
conceptualisations. While some individual studies may apply a tight definition consistently, the literature as a whole is in a mess. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269039
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Defining and Measuring Informality in the Turkish Labor Market
Acar, Elif Öznur; Tansel, Aysit - 2014
statistics. They are the enterprise definition and the social security definition. Further, contributions of individual and job … informality. The study suggests that preference should be given to social security definition of labor informality for a more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398254
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Defining and Measuring Informality in the Turkish Labor Market
Acar, Elif Öznur; Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
statistics. They are the enterprise definition and the social security definition. Further, contributions of individual and job … informality. The study suggests that preference should be given to social security definition of labor informality for a more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886146
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261621