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Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in Small Establishments
Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Bonin, Holger - 2004
Based on a large employer-employee matched data set, the paper investigates the effects of variable enforcement of German dismissal protection legislation on the employment dynamics in small establishments. Specifically, using a difference-in-differences approach, we study the effect of changes...
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Immigrant labor and workplace safety
Bauer, Thomas K.; Million, Andreas; Rotte, Ralph; … - 1998
determinants of workplace accidents using a firm data set for Germany. Given the tight system of public workplace safety regulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000995785
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Employment effects of payroll taxes : an empirical test for Germany
Bauer, Thomas K.; Riphahn, Regina T. - 1998
This study tests to what degree the incidence of payroll taxes in Germany is on employment and whether in consequence …
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Overtime work and overtime compensation in Germany
Bauer, Thomas K.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1999
major problems. Using Germany as a case study, it is shown that the group of workers with the highest risks of becoming …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001402343
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Occupational mobility of ethnic migrants
Bauer, Thomas K.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1999
This paper studies occupational mobility of ethnic German migrants who have entered Germany since 1984. The empirical …
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Siblings, their sex composition and educational attainment in Germany
Bauer, Thomas K.; Gang, Ira N. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 68 (1999) 2, pp. 215-221
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Inequality trends in the German income distribution
Biewen, Martin - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 68 (1999) 2, pp. 275-283
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The covariance structure of East and West German incomes and its implications for the persistence of poverty and inequality
Biewen, Martin - 2002
Germany in the eighties and nineties. Special emphasis is given to the separation of permanent and transitory components, the … that 52 to 69 percent of income inequality in West Germany were due to permanent differences between individuals and that … poor individuals stayed in poverty for two years on average. In East Germany, the contribution of the permanent component …
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Accounting for poverty differences between the United States, Great Britain, and Germany
Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen - 2002 - This version: 17 July 2002
across years), and use it to compare levels and patterns of relative poverty in the USA, Great Britain and Germany during the … 1990s. The higher aggregate poverty rates in the USA and in Britain relative to Germany were mostly accounted for by higher …
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Estimation of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson inequality indices from complex survey data
Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen - 2003 - This version: 11 April 2003
Applying a method suggested by Woodruff (1971), we derive the sampling variances of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson inequality indices when estimated from complex survey data. It turns out that this method also greatly simplifies the calculations for the i.i.d. case when compared to previous...
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