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Familienförderung in Deutschland - eine Bestandsaufnahme
Rosenschon, Astrid - 2001
The aggregate fiscal burden of all family-supporting fiscal programs in Germany amounts to 321.1 bill. DM in 2000 and …Die Aufwendungen für die zahlreichen familienpolitischen Maßnahmen in Deutschland summieren sich auf 321,1 Mrd. DM im …
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Finanzpolitische Maßnahmen zugunsten von Familien: Eine Bestandsaufnahme für Deutschland
Rosenschon, Astrid - 2006
Dieser Beitrag enthält eine Bestandsaufnahme über öffentliche Transferleistungen zugunsten von Familien in Deutschland …
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The health gradient and early retirement: Evidence from the German Socio-economic Panel
Hostenkamp, Gisela; Stolpe, Michael - 2006
This paper examines the role of the health gradient – the positive correlation between household income and health – in individual retirement behavior, using data from the German Socio-economic Panel (GSOEP). We first estimate agegroup-specific health gradients and find their slope increases...
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Subsidies and exports in Germany: first evidence from enterprise panel data
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Wagner, Joachim - 2009
We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate … an impact of subsidies on the share of exports in total sales in West Germany but no evidence in East Germany. …
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Aid allocation through various official and private channels: need, merit and self-interest as motives of German donors
Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes - 2009
Previous literature largely ignores the heterogeneity of aid channels used by each single donor country. We estimate Tobit models to assess the relative importance of recipient need, recipient merit and self-interest of donors for various channels of official and private German aid across a...
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Is regional innovative activity path-dependent? An empirical analysis for Germany
Bode, Eckhardt - 2001
Based on a standard idea-based model of endogenous growth we test the hypothesis that regional innovative activity is path-dependent, and investigate the geographical scope of knowledge spillovers. Using data for West-German regions, two alternative indicators of the stock of knowledge are...
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Wage cyclicality under different regimes of industrial relations
Gartner, Hermann; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus - 2010
Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth only in combination with collective bargaining. Wage adjustments to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272104
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Macroeconomic aspects of structural labor market reforms in Germany
Dovern, Jonas; Meier, Carsten-Patrick - 2006
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272958
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Commuting, externalities, and the geographical sizes of metropolitan areas
Bode, Eckhardt - 2006
The paper proposes an econometric approach for quantifying jointly the geographical scope of commuting as well as the various forms of agglomeration economies originating from metropolitan centers. Adopting an urban economics perspective, and using land prices to measure their aggregate effects,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273114
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Does domestic offshoring precede international offshoring? Industry-level evidence
Bade, Franz-Josef; Bode, Eckhardt; Cutrini, Eleonora - 2011
This paper presents descriptive evidence suggesting that there may be something to be learned about the future patterns of international offshoring from the recent patterns of 'domestic offshoring', the relocation of activities across regions within countries. Industries appear to offshore...
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