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Deregulation and the determinants of network access : evidence from the German interurban bus industry

Dürr, Niklas S.; Hüschelrath, Kai - 2016

We investigate the characteristics of cities gaining access to the German interurban bus network in the first two years following the deregulation of the industry in January 2013. Applying both parametric and semi-parametric survival models, we find strong evidence that the probability of a city...

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Scientific excellence and extramural research grants : beggars can’t be choosers?

Grimpe, Christoph - 2010

science. Based on a sample of more than 1,000 scientists at universities and public research institutes in Germany, this paper …

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Churning of R&D personnel and innovation

Müller, Kathrin; Peters, Bettina - 2010

This paper explores the role of R&D worker mobility on innovation performance. As one main novelty, we employ churning as a measure for worker mobility. Churning depicts the number of workers which are replaced by new ones. It is a very informative indicator since a firm may be exposed to...

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Optimal tax progressivity in unionised labour markets : simulation results for Germany

Boeters, Stefan - 2010

numerical model for Germany. The model combines a microsimulation module, which captures the labour-supply decisions of …

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Impact of tax rate cut cum base broadening reforms on heterogeneous firms : learning from the German tax reform 2008

Finke, Katharina; Heckemeyer, Jost H.; Reister, Timo; … - 2010

base broadening. Its implications are thus not unique to Germany. Especially in view of the current economic crisis … heart of the academic and political debate in Germany and other countries. In this paper we present a new corporate …

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R&D partnerships and innovation performance : can there be too much of a good thing?

Hottenrott, Hanna; Lopes Bento, Cindy - 2014

collaborative R&D projects in the firms' total R&D project portfolio. For a sample of 2,891 firms located in Germany, active in …

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Maternity leave and mothers' long-term sickness absence : evidence from Germany

Gürtzgen, Nicole; Hank, Karsten - 2014

Exploiting unique German administrative data, we estimate the association between an expansion in maternity leave duration from two to six months in 1979 and mothers' post-birth long-term sickness absence over a period of three decades after childbirth. Using a regression discontinuity design,...

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Foreign competition and executive compensation in the manufacturing industry : a comparison between Germany and the U.S.

Dyballa, Katharina; Kraft, Kornelius - 2018

impact of foreign competition on managerial compensation, (2) differences in the impact between Germany and the U.S. and (3 … covering the period from 1984-2010 for Germany respectively 1992-2011 for the U.S. and apply system GMM in order to solve … Germany. A differentiation between imported intermediates (efficient sourcing strategy) and final inputs (competition) reveals …

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Higher taxes on less elastic goods? : evidence from German municipalities

Blesse, Sebastian; Doerrenberg, Philipp; Rauch, Anna - 2018

business profits. This suggests that municipality-level taxation in Germany is inconsistent with the inverse-elasticity rule …

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The human capital selection of young males seeking asylum in Germany

Lange, Martin; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2018 - This version, August 29, 2018

Germany. The findings suggest that, on average, asylum seekers have 22 percent more years of schooling - the indicator used … indicators of individual and parental human capital influence short-run integration outcomes in Germany, while work experience in …

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