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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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the family's current consumption. Using data for West Germany, we do not find evidence for such a specialization strategy …
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Using data on the valuation of Christmas gifts received by students in different fields at a German university, we investigate whether the endowment effect differs between students of economics and other respondents and whether it varies with the market price of the object under consideration....
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from a structural labor demand model, the empirical results imply that the introduction of minimum wages in Germany will be …Against the background of the current discussion on the introduction of statutory minimum wages in Germany, this paper … analyzes the potential employment and fiscal effects of such a policy. Based on estimated labor demand elasticities obtained …
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Using data on the valuation of Christmas gifts received by students in different fields at a German university, we investigate whether the endowment effect differs between students of economics and other respondents and whether it varies with the market price of the object under consideration....
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This paper investigates gender differences in smoking behavior using data from the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP). We develop a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method for count data models which allows to isolate the part of the gender differential in the number of cigarettes daily smoked that...
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