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Voter involvement, fiscal autonomy and public sector efficiency : evidence from German municipalities
Geys, Benny (contributor); Heinemann, Friedrich (contributor) - 2008
Social and/or political involvement within the population is often argued to enhance public sector performance. The underlying idea is that engagement fosters political awareness and interest and increases the public’s monitoring ability. Still, although extensive voter involvement may put...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003721737
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Combining technology and work organization : an analysis of complementarity between IT and decentralization across firms of different size
Rasel, Fabienne - 2014
service sector in Germany, I can observe firms’ IT intensity in terms of enterprise software and computer use and whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010416339
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Productivity effects of organizational change : microeconometric evidence
Bertschek, Irene; Kaiser, Ulrich - 2003 - This version: October 2003
This paper analyzes the relationship between investment in information and communication technologies (ICT), non-ICT-investment, labor productivity and workplace reorganization. Firms are assumed to reorganize workplaces if the productivity gains arising from workplace reorganization exceed the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446232
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Substitution elasticities between capital, labour, material, electricity and fossil fuels in German producing and service sectors
Koschel, Henrike - 2000
In this paper, substitutional relationships between capital, labour, material, electricity, and fossil fuels in German … the Morishima elasticity of substitution, labour and capital are substitutes in all sectors. Labour is generally a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444715
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Outsourcing of services, imported materials and the demand for heterogeneous labour : an application of a generalised Box-Cox function
Falk, Martin; Koebel, Bertrand M. - 2000
This paper examines the effects that purchased services and imported intermediate materials have on the labour demand … output and capital growth are more important in explaining the demand for heterogeneous labour than substitution effects … between labour and non-labour inputs. Similarly, the increasing use of both imported materials and purchased services is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445002
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Imputation rules to improve the education variable in the IAB employment subsample
Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor);  … - 2005
The education variable in the IAB employment subsample has two shortcomings: missing values and inconsistencies with the reporting rule. We propose several deductive imputation procedures to improve the variable. They mainly use the multiple education information available in the data because...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002591088
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Educational opportunities and the role of institutions
Ammermüller, Andreas (contributor) - 2005
Educational opportunities determine the intergenerational mobility of human capital and are affected by institutional features of schooling systems. The aim of this paper is twofold. It intends to show how strongly student performance depends on student background at two important stages in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002906297
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Explaining women's success : technological change and the skill content of women's work
Black, Sandra E. (contributor);  … - 2007
. Using data from West Germany, we find that women have witnessed relative increases in nonroutine analytic tasks and non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003480030
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Female labor force participation and the big five
Wichert, Laura; Pohlmeier, Winfried - 2010
This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits and female labor force participation. While research on the role of cognitive skills for individual labor market success has a long tradition in economics, comparatively little is known about the channels through which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003919076
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Determinants of child care participation
Coneus, Katja (contributor); Goeggel, Kathrin (contributor);  … - 2007
(GSOEP) from 1989{2006 we show that children living in Western Germany have a higher probability to attend institutional care …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003607689