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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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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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Subsidized and non-subsidized R&D projects : do they differ?

Köhler, Mila; Peters, Bettina - 2017

this paper we exploit a novel dataset of patent applications filed in Germany between 1995-2005, which allows us to …

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R&D and firm performance in a transition economy

Czarnitzki, Dirk (contributor); Kraft, Kornelius (contributor) - 2006

of firms in Western Germany and Eastern Germany as a transitional economy. Innovative activity has a positive impact on … firm value proxied by ratings in Western Germany, but a negative impact in Eastern Germany. We also consider future … financial distress, and find that R&D in Eastern German firms leads to higher default risk, in contrast to Western Germany …

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Skill composition and regional entrepreneurship : a comparative study between Germany and Portugal

Mendonça, Joana; Grimpe, Christoph - 2009

general as well as in technology- and knowledge-intensive subsectors. We compare Germany and Portugal which exhibit, though EU … results for Germany reveal exactly the opposite effect. These results suggest that both specialization and diversity theories …

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From soft and hard-nosed bankers : bank lending strategies and the survival of financially distressed firms

Höwer, Daniel - 2009

Do private banks act as hard-nosed bankers when firms get financially distressed compared to public banks that have the mandate to support regional economy? For German firms in the period 2000-2005, I find that the probability of leaving the market after financial distress is higher for firms...

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