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Real wages, working time, and the Great Depression
Hart, Robert A.; Roberts, J. Elizabeth - 2010
We have assembled two British data sets to re-examine the behaviour of real wages over the 1927-1937 cycle that contained the Great Depression. Both provide a degree of micro detail that greatly exceeds previous studies. The first consists of annual wages for 36 manufacturing industries. The...
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Lebensarbeitszeitmodelle: Chancen und Risiken für das Unternehmen und die Mitarbeiter. Forschungsbericht zum Teilprojekt KRONOS des Schwerpunktprogramms "Altersdifferenzierte Arbei...
Knauth, Peter; Karl, Dorothee; Elmerich, Kathrin - 2009
Die deutschen Unternehmen müssen Strategien entwickeln, die Arbeitsfähigkeit und Gesundheit ihrer älter werdenden Belegschaft bis zum Rentenalter von 67 Jahren zu erhalten bzw. zu verbessern. Dabei kommt der Arbeitszeitgestaltung eine besondere Bedeutung zu.Im Rahmen von zehn Teilprojekten in...
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How Germans use their time
Scheffel, Juliane - 2011
Diese Dissertation besteht aus vier Aufsätzen, die zur empirischen Literatur der Allokation der Arbeitszeit beitragen … unüblichen Bedingungen gemäß der Theorie kompensierender Lohndifferentiale durch höhere Löhne entlohnt wird. Die Ergebnisse …
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A Model for Structuring Efficient Consumer Response Measures
Aastrup, Jesper; Kotzab, Herbert; Grant, David B.; … - 2008
performance, behavioural, attitude and capability measures. Two extant studies from Austria and Denmark are examined in the …
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Comparing hospital costs: What is gained by accounting for more than a case-mix index?
Hvenegaard, Anne; Street, Andrew; Sorensen, Torben Hojmark - 2009
We explore what effect controlling for various patient characteristics beyond a case-mix index (DRG) has on inferences drawn about the relative cost performance of hospital departments. We estimate fixed effect cost models in which 3754 patients are clustered within six Danish vascular...
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Mit Sicherheit besser? : Aktivierung und Flexicurity in Dänemark
Bogedan, Claudia - 2005
Labour market policies in Denmark, especially measures for the unemployed, recently received much attention, because of …. Denmark offers a flexible labour market with minimal regulations combined with high social security. This ‘flexicurity’ has …. However, Denmark has been able to embed activation into the tradition of a generous and universal welfare state. The paper …
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Distributing the Benefits from the Commons
Silvestre, Joaquim - 1993
"The common-property literature has often focused on the question of efficiency. Here we consider distributional issues instead. How should the benefits of the commons (say, a fishery) be distributed? We approach the question from the viewpoint of ownership rather than income redistribution. "A...
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Foundations for Cooperation in Social Dilemmas
Ahn, Toh-Kyeong - 2001
"Institutional approaches to social dilemmas have so far focused on how to create incentive structures that channel individuals' behavior into socially desirable outcomes assuming that everyone is selfish. However, the presumption of universal selfishness is not only empirically invalid but may...
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Appropriation Externalities in the Commons: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Herr, Andrew - 1996
of the commons.' This dissertation combines the tools of game theory and experimental methods to gain a broader …
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Essays on Individual Behavior in Social Dilemma Environments: An Experimental Analysis
Dudley, Dean - 1993
"In this study, individual level behavior is investigated in the context of computer assisted voluntary contribution mechanism public good (VCM) provision experiments and common pool resource (CPR) appropriation experiments. Previous studies of these environments have concentrated on aggregate...
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