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Job and worker turnover in German establishments

Bellmann, Lutz; Gerner, Hans-Dieter; Upward, Richard - 2011

separation is much lower in Germany than in the US, as expected, we find that the relationship between employment growth and …

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Beyond GDP and back : what is the value-added by additional components of welfare measurement?

New, Sonja C. de; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2011

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Information or institution? : On the determinants of forecast accuracy

Döhrn, Roland; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2010

The accuracy of macroeconomic forecast depends on various factors, most importantly the mix of analytical methods used … forecasts of German GDP and its components to analyze the impact of institutions and information on forecast accuracy. We find … that forecast errors are a linear function of the forecast horizon. This result is robust over a variety of different …

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Brother sun, sister moon : the lunar cycle, sunspots and the frequency of births

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Heining, Jörg; … - 2010

Based on multivariate linear regression models, we analyze the effect of the lunar cycle and the number of sunspots occurring on a particular day on the number of births using social security data and controlling for a number of other potential confounders. The daily number of births between...

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Beyond GDP and back : what is the value-added by additional components of welfare measurement?

New, Sonja C. de; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2011

Recently, building on the highly polarizing Stiglitz report, a growing literature suggests that statistical offices and applied researchers explore other aspects of human welfare apart from material well-being, such as job security, crime, health, environmental factors and subjective...

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Tobacco and alcohol : complements or substitutes? ; a structural model approach

Tauchmann, Harald; Göhlmann, Silja; Requate, Tilman; … - 2008

explanatory variables. This approach is applied to German survey data. Our estimation results suggest that a reduction in tobacco …

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The empirical assessment of technology differences : comparing the comparable

Frondel, Manuel; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2002

This paper compares technologies across space and time on the basis of factual and counterfactual substitution elasticities and argues that differences in estimated substitution elasticities should be decomposed into two counterfactual components. While the first component is designed to...

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The long awaited reform of the German Works Constitution Act

Addison, John T.; Bellmann, Lutz; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2002

German law guaranteeing works councils is not a datum. The thrust of legislation has changed significantly on a number of occasions since 1920. The most recent legal change in the form of the Works Constitution Reform Act marks a controversial swing in favor of works council formation and...

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Are working time accounts beneficial for German establishments?

Bellmann, Lutz; Hübler, Olaf - 2015

This contribution investigates whether working time accounts are beneficial for the performance of German establishments. Based on the representative German Establishment Panel of the Institute for Employment Research during the period 2008-2013, effects on productivity, wages, sales, firm size,...

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Unions, works councils and plant closings in Germany

Addison, John T.; Bellmann, Lutz; Kölling, Arnd - 2002

This paper present paper provides the first results for Germany on the impact of works councils and collective … encourage a sanguine view of recent legislation in Germany that facilitates the formation of works councils and strengthens …

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