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In this paper we estimate the employment effects of a reduction in weekly normal hours in West German manufacturing on the basis of an econometric models using industry panel data. We distinguish between unskilled, skilled and high-skilled workers and show that labor demand elasticities with...
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-producers emerged in Asia, Latin America as well as Southern and Central Europe. In addition, the automobile industries of Germany … differed considerably between Germany, Japan and the United States. Economic restructuring was least pronounced in the US …
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major subsegments of the electrical industry is analysed in more detail for the case of West Germany. …
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This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been ?rigid? in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a methodology which makes less restrictive identifying...
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The question of the allocation of public R&D funding is becoming particularly important when it comes to identifying the effects of state subsidies, in terms of input or output additionality. This analysis goes one important step further than the existing literature by including the time...
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This paper presents an applied general equilibrium model for Germany. The model integrates specific labour market …
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This study provides insights into the effects of public R&D grants on R&D input and output of firms from Germany …
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This paper looks at which firms receive R&D project grants and how this public support evolves over time by considering in particular firm's previous participation. The question of the allocation of public R&D funding is becoming particularly important when it comes to identifying the effects of...
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Using a newly constructed macroeconometric model for Germany and the rest of the Euro area, we investigate the … macroeconomic effects of structural labor market reforms in Germany. We find that neither the fact that Germany can no longer pursue … Germany by implementing labor market reforms themselves constitute impediments to successful reforms. Reforms would relative …
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Export is an important factor to improve growth and welfare especially for industrialized small, open economies such as … Belgium. Policy may be interested in key variables that can influence export. This paper finds evidence for the importance of … R&D for export activities using Belgian firm-level data. To control for reverse causality, R&D-subsidy variables are …
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