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From Russia with Love : The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival
Falck, Oliver - 2014
We identify the impact of local firm concentration on incumbent performance with a quasi natural experiment. When Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet occupied zone to prevent expropriation. We show that the regional location decisions...
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International Implications of German Unification
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2021
This paper advances the hypothesis that the EUS crisis was caused by German unification. The unification has implied a …
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From Socialist Showcase to Mezzogiorno? Lessons on the Role of Technical Change from East Germany'S Post-World War Ii Growth Performance
Keller, Wolfgang - 2021
In this paper we emphasize the contribution of technical change, broadly defined, towards productivity growth in explaining the relative East Germany-West Germany performance during the post-World War II era. We argue that previous work was excessively focused on physical capital investments...
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The Contribution of Trade to Wage Inequality : The Role of Skill, Gender, and Nationality
Klein, Michael W. - 2010
wage inequality along the dimension of skill, it diminishes the wage inequality associated with both gender and nationality …
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Gender and Youth Employment Outcomes : The Us and West Germany, 1984-91
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2021
This paper examines gender differences in labor market outcomes for hard-to-employ youth in the US and West Germany …
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A Tear in the Iron Curtain : The Impact of Western Television on Consumption Behavior
Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2014
This paper examines the impact of exposure to foreign media on the economic behavior of agents in a totalitarian regime. We study private consumption choices focusing on former East Germany, where differential access to Western television was determined by geographic features. Using data...
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Headstrong Girls and Dependent Boys : Gender Differences in the Labor Market Returns to Child Behavior
Kaestner, Robert; Malamud, ofer - 2023
The authors use data from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (C-NLSY79) to examine gender … behavioral problems are also associated with labor market earnings, their associations are not significantly different by gender …. The gender differences in headstrong and dependent behavior are not explained by education, marriage, depression, self …
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Gender Differences in Risk Aversion and Ambiguity Aversion
Borghans, Lex - 2010
This paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion. It also contributes to a growing …
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The Demand for Youth : Implications for the Hours Volatility Puzzle
Jaimovich, Nir - 2010
The employment and hours worked of young individuals fluctuate much more over the business cycle than those of prime-aged individuals. Understanding the mechanism underlying this observation is key to explaining the volatility of aggregate hours over the cycle. We argue that the joint behavior...
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Recent Trends in Height by Gender and Ethnicity in the Us in Relation to Levels of Income
Komlos, John - 2010
Height trends since World War II are analyzed using the most recent NHANES survey released in 2006. After declining for about a generation, the height of adult white men and women began to increase among the birth cohorts of c. 1975-1986, i.e., those who reached adulthood within the past decade...
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