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Comparing the part-time wage gap in Germany and the Netherlands
Wolf, Elke - 2001
Germany and the Netherlands, taking into account individual and job-specific characteristics and treating participation and …-timers. Using the Netherlands as a benchmark, helps to assess the size and seriousness of the estimated wage differentials in … Germany. Based on two comparable household surveys, I estimate the wage gap between part-time and full-time employees in …
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Does part-time and intermittent work during early motherhood lead to regular work later? : a comparison of labor behavior of mothers with young children in Germany, Britain, the Ne...
Gustafsson, Siv S.; Kenjoh, Eiko; Wetzels, Cécile M. M. P. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 15-23
We use data from Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden to examine whether part-time and intermittent work …
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Does part-time and intermittent work during early motherhood lead to regular work later? : A comparison of labor market behavior of mothers with young children in Germany, Britain,...
Gustafsson, Siv S.; Kenjoh, Eiko; Wetzels, Cécile M. M. P. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 15-23
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001574202
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(Not) sharing the fruits of growth : the impact of governments and markets on living standards in Germany, the Netherlands and the United States, 1986 - 95
Headey, Bruce; Headey, Stephen; Muffels, Ruud J. A. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 115-122
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Aktive Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland und der Schweiz : eine Gegenüberstellung
Behncke, Stefanie; Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 75 (2006) 3, pp. 118-154
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Empirical macromodels under test : a comparative simulation study of the employment effects of a revenue neutral cut in social security contributions
Buscher, Herbert S.; Buslei, Hermann; Göggelmann, Klaus; … - 1998 - Preliminary version
In the paper we simulate a revenue-neutral cut in the social security contribution rate using five different types of macro- / microeconomic models, namely two models based on time-series data where the labour market is modelled basically demand oriented, two models of the class of computable...
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China's exchange rate appreciation in the light of the earlier Japanese experience
McKinnon, Ronald I. (contributor) - 2006
For creditor countries on the periphery of the dollar standard such as China with current account surpluses, foreign mercantile pressure to appreciate their currencies and become more flexible is misplaced. Just the expectation of variable exchange appreciation seriously disrupts the natural...
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Implications of network convergence on local access regulation in the US and the EU
Vanberg, Margit A. (contributor) - 2007
This paper provides an overview of telecommunications regulation in the U.S. and in Europe. For each region the history of telecommunications regulations as well as the current regulatory regime is portrayed. The focus of this overview is on the question of how unbundling regulations in the...
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Latin versus European power : a tale of two market reforms
Mennel, Tim (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper compares electricity market reforms in the European Union with reforms in Chile and Brazil. The paradigm of competitive market structures for the electricity sector, as developed in the economics literature, is outlined: competitive markets in generation and retailing and an...
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The impact of informational costs in quantity regulation of pollutants : the case of the European Emissions Trading Scheme
Heindl, Peter - 2011
There is extreme heterogeneity of firms regulated under the European Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) in terms of emissions evels and employed technology. We present a model that shows that behavior of firms under quantity regulation can differ strongly, dependent on the characteristics of the...
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