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The unification bonus (malus) in postwall Eastern Germany
Beblo, Miriam; Collier, Irwin L.; Knaus, Thomas - 2001
This paper presents estimates of the unification bonus for East Germans over the period 1991 to 1998. The unification bonus is defined as the discounted value of the difference between a person's actual income and his or her counterfactual real income stream forecast for a hypothetical...
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Extended benefit entitlement periods and the duration of unemployment in West Germany
Steiner, Viktor - 1997
Germany, as most other European countries, has been plagued by a persistently high level of long-term unemployment … level of long-term unemployment in Germany relative to the United States? …
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Flexibilität der qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur und Lastverteilung der Arbeitslosigkeit : eine ökonometrische Analyse für Westdeutschland
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - 1998
Dieser Beitrag nimmt aus theoretischer und ökonometrischer Sicht zu der Kontroverse über die Bedeutung der qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur zur Erklärung der Beschäftigungsstruktur Stellung. Basierend auf einer Einteilung in drei Qualifikationsgruppen zeigt sich empirisch, dass die Entlohnung...
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Wer ist noch Mitglied in Gewerkschaften? : eine Panelanalyse für Westdeutschland
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Haggeney, Isabelle; Ernst, Michaela - 1998
War mit der Vereinigung Deutschlands ein starker Anstieg in der Mitgliederzahl der Gewerkschaften in Deutschland …
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Returns to education in West Germany : an empirical assessment
Lauer, Charlotte; Steiner, Viktor - 2000
This paper analyses the developments in the returns to education in West Germany for the period from 1984 to 1997 …
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Cohort effects and the returns to education in West Germany
Boockmann, Bernhard; Steiner, Viktor - 2000
Using a Mincer-type wage function, we estimate cohort effects in the returns to education for West German workers born between 1925 and 1974. The main problem to be tackled in the specification is to separately identify cohort, experience, and possibly also age effects in the returns. For women,...
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Job shopping after vocational training? : an empirical analysis of the transition from apprenticeship training to work
Franz, Wolfgang; Zimmermann, Volker - 2001
data covering the time period 1980 to 1991 in West Germany and is based on a hazard rate model. …
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License expenditures of incumbents and potential entrants : an empirical analysis of firm behavior
Czarnitzki, Dirk (contributor); Kraft, Kornelius (contributor) - 2005
This paper presents the results of an empirical test concerning the auction model of Gilbert and Newbery (1982). The study uses data on German companies in order to analyze expenditures for technology licenses. Aside of standard control variables the motives for innovation expenditures are also...
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Long-run effects of public sector sponsored training in West Germany
Lechner, Michael (contributor); Miquel, Ruth (contributor);  … - 2005
Between 1991 and 1997 West Germany spent on average about 3.6 bn Euro per year on public sector sponsored training …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003024909
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Price indices for information and communication technology industries : an application to the German PC market
Moch, Dietmar - 2001
Inflation wird zu hoch ausgewiesen. Bei der Analyse der Preisentwicklung für PCs in Deutschland (bezogen auf den Direktmarkt … 1994 are used to construct price indices for personal computers in Germany. The use of hedonic methods allows to correct … substantially lower, thus overestimating computer prices and inflation. When the hedonic index for German computer prices is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445963