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Women and work : what role do social norms play?
Tolciu, Andreia; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2010
Against the background of the current economic research which concentrates particularly on individual and structural factors, this paper examines if and to what extent social norms (in terms of attitudes towards gender roles and work commitment) can make a complementary statement in explaining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003950587
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The effect of market access on the labor market : evidence from German reunification
Zierahn, Ulrich - 2012
access shock due to reunification was accompanied by a labor supply shock due to migrants and commuters from eastern Germany … shock due to the increase in market access and a labor supply shock due to migrants and commuters from eastern Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009575133
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The effect of Western TV on crime : evidence form East Germany
Friehe, Tim; Müller, Helge; Neumeier, Florian - 2017
This paper explores the causal influence of Western television programming on crime rates. We exploit a natural experiment involving access to West German TV within the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in which only geography and topography determined the allocation of individuals to treatment...
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Media content's role in the making of a democrat : evidence from East Germany
Friehe, Tim; Müller, Helge; Neumeier, Florian - 2017
This paper explores the causal influence of access to Western television programming on voting behavior. We exploit a natural experiment involving access to West German TV within the German Democratic Republic in which only geography and topography determined the allocation of individuals to...
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Innovation in clean coal technologies : empirical evidence from firm-level patent data
Kruse, Jürgen; Wetzel, Heike - 2016
This article empirically analyzes supply-side and demand-side factors expected to a.ect innovation in clean coal technologies. Patent data from 93 national and international patent offices is used to construct new firm-level panel data on 3,648 clean coal innovators over the time period 1978 to...
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Local and spatial cointegration in the wage curve : a spatial panel analysis for German regions
Kosfeld, Reinhold; Dreger, Christian - 2016
The wage curve introduced by Blanchflower and Oswald (1990, 1994) postulates a negative correlation between wages and unemployment. Empirical results focus on particular theoretical channels establishing the relationship. Panel models mostly draw on unionized bargaining or the efficiency wage...
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Parasites and raven mothers : a German-Japanese comparison on (lone) motherhood
Klabunde, Anna; Korn, Evelyn - 2010
countries. We compare the institutional frame, in particular labor-market characteristics and family law, in Germany and Japan …-earner) family system until the second half of the 20th century. Now we can observe that social changes that happened in Germany … fertility rates that resulted in Germany can be transfered to Japan. …
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Measuring gender differences in personalities through natural language in the labor force : application of the 5-Factor Model
Eugenidis, Dania; Lenz, David - 2022
Gender stereotypes still play a major role in the perception and representation of people in the workplace. Measuring the effects of those stereotypes quantitatively is very hard though. Traditional methods, such as questionnaires, struggle to provide the full picture, for example through...
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Analysing gender equality at the firm level
Eugenidis, Dania; Kinne, Jan; Lenz, David - 2022
granularity. We demonstrate the applicability of our framework in a case study including nearly 1 million firms throughout Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013185733
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Business taxation and wages : evidence from individual panel data
Bauer, Thomas K.; Kasten, Tanja; Siemers, Lars - 2012
Empirical evidence on the degree of business-tax shifting to employees via the wage level is highly controversial and rare. It remains open to which extent the tax burden is shifted, whether there are differences for tax increases and decreases, or whether there exists some treatment...
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