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Benchmark "Internationale Telekommunikationsmärkte" im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Arbeit
Hempell, Thomas; Ohnemus, Jörg; Schäfer, Anne; … - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288136
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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010
Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270632
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The winding road to industrial safety: Evidence on the effects of environmental liability on accident prevention in Germany
Hoffmeister, Onno; Schwarze, Reimund - 2007
The German Environmental Liability Law (ELL) of 1991 has introduced far-reaching civil liability for environmental damages with the aim to increase firms? efforts to prevent accidents. Previous studies find poor evidence that this goal has actually been achieved. One and a half decades after the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293420
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Why are mothers working longer hours in Austria than in Germany? A comparative micro simulation analysis
Dearing, Helene; Hofer, Helmut; Lietz, Christine; … - 2007
Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are …, differences in mothers' employment patterns can partly be explained by the different tax systems: While Germany has a system of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293998
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Exports, R&D and productivity: A test of the Bustos-model with German enterprise data
Wagner, Joachim - 2012
This paper presents the first empirical test with German firm level data of a hypothesis derived by Bustos (AER 2011) in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to export and to engage in R&D. Using a non-parametric test for first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294473
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Lingering illness or sudden death? Pre-exit employment developments in German establishments
Fackler, Daniel; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2012
Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving … establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear shadow of death effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments … are more clearly visible in West than in East Germany. Our results also hold when applying a matching approach. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294474
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Trading many goods with many countries: Exporters and importers from German manufacturing industries
Wagner, Joachim - 2012
In Germany, for the reporting year 2009 transaction-level data on exports and imports of goods have been aggregated at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294477
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German multiple-product, multiple-destination exporters: Bernard-Redding-Schott under test
Wagner, Joachim - 2012
. Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods, is a case in point. Theoretical models of multiple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294485
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Productivity and the product scope of multi-product firms: A test of Feenstra-Ma
Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - 2012
Feenstra and Ma (2008) develop a monopolistic competition model where firms choose their optimal product scope by balancing the profits from a new variety against the costs of cannibalizing sales of existing varieties. While more productive firms always have a higher market share, there is no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294493