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What kind of shock was it? : Regional integration and structural change in Germany after unification
Burda, Michael C. (contributor) - 2007
Eastern Germany's recovery from the unification shockʺ has been characterized by deep structural change with apparent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003414225
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What drives patentees to bypass TTOs? : evidence from a large PRO
Goel, Rajeev K.; Göktepe-Hultén, Devrim - 2017
This paper provides insights into the behavior of academic patentees who choose to bypass in-house Technology Transfer Offices (TTOs). TTOs have gained favor in recent years as academic institutions have tried to increase commercialization of their inventions. Using a large sample of researchers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011644436
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Explaining the East German productivity gap : the role of human capital
Ragnitz, Joachim (contributor) - 2007
The paper concentrates on the question whether the low level of productivity in East Germany can be explained by … capital endowments; in fact, the effective stock on human capital in East Germany is lower than in West Germany when … younger cohorts. This impedes a fast convergence in productivity between East and West Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003414320
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Finanzhilfen der Bundesländer : eine Aktualisierung
Rosenschon, Astrid - 2002
allowances) in Germany or 3.4 per cent of German GDP. States’ subsidies are far from evenly distributed in regional and sectoral …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011477105
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003929206
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Immigration and structural change : evidence from post-war Germany
Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2012
ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II as a natural experiment to study this question. A … support for these predictions. -- Immigration ; sectoral change ; output growth ; post-war Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009552293
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The employment effects of immigration : evidence from the mass arrival of German expellees in post-war Germany
Braun, Sebastian; Omar Mahmoud, Toman - 2011
This paper studies the employment effects of the influx of millions of German expellees to West Germany after World War … II. The expellees were forced to relocate to post-war Germany. They represented a complete cross-section of society, were … West Germany. We find a substantial negative effect of expellee inflows on native employment. The effect was, however …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009244372
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Human capital depreciation during family-related career interruptions in male and female occupations
Görlich, Dennis (contributor); Grip, Andries de (contributor) - 2007
This study investigates the relation between human capital depreciation during family-related career interruptions and occupational choice of women in the (West) German labour market. In contrast to other studies that do not explicitly focus on family-related career interruptions, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003550441
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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 … council ; Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008696819
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Wage inequality and the changing organization of work
Görlich, Dennis; Snower, Dennis J. - 2010
This paper sheds light on how changes in the organization of work lead to wage inequality. We present a theoretical model in which workers with a wider span of competence (higher level of multitasking) earn a wage premium. Since abilities and opportunities to expand the span of competence are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003932603