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What are the different strategies for EMU countries?

Artus, Patrick - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 75 (2006) 2, pp. 65-78

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What are the different strategies for EMU countries?

Artus, Patrick - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 75 (2006) 2, pp. 65-78

The answer to competition from emerging countries with low wage costs must be very different according to the affected sector. We need to draw a distinction between manufacturing industry and services that can be relocated and other sectors: consumer services, retail, construction, most business...

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The privatization of Italian savings banks : a role model for Germany?

Carletti, Elena; Hakenes, Hendrik; Schnabel, Isabel - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 74 (2005) 4, pp. 32-50

Italian experience can really serve as a role model for Germany. Our analysis confirms that the Italian reforms of the 1990s … sector differed markedly from Germany's. Therefore, one may question the transferability of the Italian experience to Germany … diesem Aufsatz stellen wir die Frage, ob das italienische Beispiel wirklich als Vorbild für Deutschland dienen kann. Unsere …

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Is there a common European business cycle? : new insights from a frequency domain analysis

Breitung, Jörg; Candelon, Bertrand - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 4, pp. 331-338

, Austria and Germany. … einige schwache Anzeichen für ein gemeinsames Konjunkturmuster für Frankreich, die Niederlande, Österreich und Deutschland …

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Early career experiences and later career outcomes : comparing the United States, France and Germany

Margolis, David N.; Simonnet, Véronique; Vilhuber, Lars - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 31-38

years later using data from France, (western) Germany, and the United States. Relative to most of the literature, we … across countries. Labor market outcomes in Germany are consistent with a dual labor market model. In the case of American …

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Individual heterogeneity, job matching, and returns to tenure in Germany

Couch, Kenneth A. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 39-43

Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel are used to examine the roles of individual heterogeneity and job match quality in generating commonly observed wage-tenure profiles. The evidence presented in the paper indicates that once those factors are reflected in the estimations, the returns to...

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The dynamics of reservation wages : preliminary evidence from the GSOEP

Prasad, Enswar - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 44-50

This paper presents preliminary results from an empirical analysis of the individual and macroeconomic deter-minants of reservation wages, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. The longitudinal aspect of the dataset provides an interesting perspective on the dynamics of reservation...

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Why do German firms subsidize apprenticeship training? : tests of the asymmetric information and mobility costs explanation

Clark, Damon - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 102-106

It is often observed that despite the famous prediction of Becker (1962) that firms will not pay for general training, German firms do in fact subsidize apprenticeship training. This paper examines two prominent solutions to this puzzle - "asymmetric information" and "mobility costs." Our tests...

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German wage underpayment : an investigation into labor market inefficiency and discrimination

Dawson, Peter; Hinks, Timothy; Watson, Duncan - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 107-114

reunified Germany. The estimates are initially applied to discrimination analysis. It finds that females have higher …

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The privatization of Italian savings banks : a role model for Germany?

Carletti, Elena; Hakenes, Hendrik; Schnabel, Isabel - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 74 (2005) 4, pp. 32-50

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003267689