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Do labour market institutions matter? Micro-level wage effects of international outsourcing in three European countries

Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger; Munch, Jakob Roland - 2008

This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the...

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Comparing the effectiveness of employment subsidies

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2006

This paper provides a theoretical and quantitative analysis of various types of wellknown employment subsidies. Two … important questions are addressed: (i) How should employment subsidies be targeted? (ii) How large should the subsidies be? We …) improve employment and welfare, (b) do not raise earnings inequality and (c) are self-financing. This criterion enables us to …

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Comparing the effectiveness of employment subsidies

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2010

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Foreign Competition and Disintermediation: No Threat to the German Banking System?

Golder, Stefan M.; Buch, Claudia M. - 1999

The German financial system is characterized by lower degrees of penetration by foreign commercial banks and of (bank) disintermedation than, for instance, that of the United States. These differences between the two countries could be attributed to the fact that universal banking in Germany...

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Venture Capital in Europe's Common Market: A Quantitative Description

Schertler, Andrea - 2001

This paper offers a quantitative description of European private equity markets and compares the recent development in these markets with the development of the US venture capital market. Moreover, the paper addresses the differences between private equity investors acting in a single national...

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Are unfair import laws unfair to developing countries: evidence from US antidumping actions 1990 - 2004

Morkre, Morris; Spinanger, Dean; Tran, Lien - 2008

This paper investigates the effects of U.S. AD actions on DCs. It first considers administrative actions by the U.S. Department of Commerce, which decides AD margins for countries. It then considers decision making by the U.S. International Trade Commission, which determines injury to domestic...

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Alternative Systeme der Arbeitslosenversicherung: das Beispiel der Vereinigten Staaten und des Vereinigten Königreichs

Glismann, Hans H.; Schrader, Klaus - 2001

Comparing the unemployment insurance systems of the United States and of the United Kingdom it is shown that the US unemployment insurance (UI) is the only system that provides for a negative feedback between UI expenditures and layoffs (“experience rating”). The UK has no specific UI:...

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A tale of two countries: A comparison of the aggregate effects of sectoral reallocation in the United States and Germany

Reicher, Christopher Phillip - 2011

stochastic volatility model of sectoral employment growth. Reallocative shocks have no effect on the natural rate of unemployment …

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Extensive vs. intensive margin in Germany and the United States: any differences?

Merkl, Christian; Wesselbaum, Dennis - 2009

This paper analyzes the role of the extensive vis-à-vis the intensive margin of labor adjustment in Germany and in the United States. The contribution is twofold. First, we provide an update of older U.S. studies and confirm the view that the extensive margin (i.e., the adjustment in the number...

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Returns to Self-Employment Experience in the Wage and Salary Sector: A Comparative Analysis of Germany and the United States

Trzcinski, Eileen - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 68 (1999) 2, pp. 177-183

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