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Griffith, Rachel; Harmgart, Heike - 2005

Recent attention has focused on the UK's productivity gap in the retail sector. Figure 1 shows an estimate of labour productivity in retail across countries, using output per hour worked. The UK lies well behind the US, France and Germany. Reynolds at al (2005) contribute to this debate by...

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Workplace heterogeneity and the rise of West German wage inequality

Card, David E.; Heining, Jörg; Kline, Patrick - 2013

We study the role of establishment-specific wage premiums in generating recent increases in West German wage inequality. Models with additive fixed effects for workers and establishments are fit in four sub-intervals spanning the period from 1985 to 2009. We show that these models provide a good...

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Characteristics of unemployment dynamics: The chain reaction approach

Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2007

The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labour market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting lagged adjustment processes. In the context of...

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Offsetting versus mitigation activities to reduce CO2 emissions: A theoretical and empirical analysis for the US and Germany

Lange, Andreas; Ziegler, Andreas - 2012

This paper studies the voluntary provision of public goods that is partially driven by a desire to offset for individual polluting activities. We first extend existing theory and show that offsets allow a reduction in effective environmental pollution levels while not necessarily extending the...

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Wage Mobility in East and West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Schnitzlein, Daniel - 2011

This article studies the long run patterns and explanations of wage mobility as a characteristic of regional labor markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the...

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The Exporter Wage Premium Reconsidered - Destinations, Distances and Linked Employer-Employee Data

Schmillen, Achim - 2011

This study uses detailed, reliable and up-to-date linked employer-employee data that take account of both the demand and the supply side of the labor market to challenge the conventional wisdom of a universal exporter wage premium. It investigates whether for German establishments an exporter...

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National and international developments in technology – Trends, patterns and implications for policy

Koopmann, Georg; Münnich, Felix - 1999

Declining R&D intensities at the national level coincide with growing international technological links. Deviations of individual OECD countries from the average R&D intensity reflect differences in industry structure as well as in sectoral R&D intensity. At the same time, the sectoral...

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Locating foreign affiliates in Germany: The case of Swedish MNEs

Braconier, Henrik; Ekholm, Karolina - 2001

schwedischer Tochtergesellschaften in Deutschland im Vergleich mit denen in anderen Ländern untersucht. Es zeigt sich, dass die … Multis, in Deutschland zu investieren. Dabei zeigt sich, dass die Standortentscheidung beeinflusst wird vom Niveau der … Lohnkosten in Deutschland und an anderen potentiellen Standorten in europäischen Hocheinkommensländern, aber nicht von den …

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FDI versus cross-border financial services: The globalisation of German banks

Buch, Claudia M.; Lipponer, Alexander - 2004

The choice between foreign direct investment (FDI) and exports has been a recurrent theme in the literature on international trade, yet few studies have analysed this choice at the level of the individual firm. This paper uses a new dataset to study the FDI-versus-exports decision for banks. We...

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Location choice and employment decisions: a comparison of German and Swedish multinationals

Becker, Sascha O.; Ekholm, Karolina; Jäckle, Robert; … - 2005

Using data for German and Swedish multinational enterprises (MNEs), this paper assesses international employment patterns. It analyzes determinants of location choice and the degree of substitutability of labor across locations. Countries with highly skilled labor forces attract German MNEs, but...

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