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Despite a more recent debate about ever deeper segmentation, we argue that since industrialization, Germany has … dualization is the result of firms which are likely to hire full-time and long-term workforce for its core activities performed by … the core workforce while relying on more flexible forms of employment for other activities. Based on an in …
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The modern contract law generally does not allow a perfected claim to be placed on employees. This constraint makes a claim to the return on employer's investment in recruiting and training a worker vulnerable against a possible bystanders' infringement on the claim. Accordingly, employers might...
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Did the late industrialization in Europe’s periphery improve life for its urban class? This paper examines family … living conditions in northern Spain during late industrialization in the interwar period. We concentrate on the Basque region … industrialization increased real wages and overall standards of living. We contrast this empirically by examining the effects of income …
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What drove social conflict in Spain’s industrial areas in the period before the Spanish Civil War? This paper is concerned with contrasting the determinants of working-class conflict in northern Spain at the beginning of the twentieth century. Our hypothesis is that the key determinant of...
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Using a rich dataset of territories and cities of the Holy Roman Empire in the 16th century, this paper investigates the determinants of adoption and diffusion of Protestantism as a state religion. A territory’s distance to Wittenberg, the city where Martin Luther taught, is a major...
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Using a rich dataset of territories and cities of the Holy Roman Empire in the 16th century, this paper investigates the determinants of adoption and diffusion of Protestantism as a state religion. A territorys distance to Wittenberg, the city where Martin Luther taught, is a major determinant...
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employment industry and occupational status in Germany from the beginning of World War II to the post-war reconstruction era …
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employment industry and occupational status in Germany from the beginning of World War II to the post-war reconstruction era …
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employment earnings in Germany from 1810 to 1989. Reconstituted sets of statistics are also used to put forward new hypotheses … concerning the way is which wages, wage earners and aggregate employment earnings in Germany are linked to the socioeconomic …
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Germany's turbulent history in the past two centuries has left its mark on her population. The industrialization of the … nineteenth century promoted rapid population growth, and the spatial concentration of that industrialization provoked enormous … internal migration. Germany's relatively late economic development left the country impoverished relative to North America and …
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