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The rise and fall of the Normalarbeitsverhältnis in Germany
Pierenkemper, Toni - 2009
The following paper attempts to trace the construction of the standard employment contract in Germany from the … consolidation of the welfare state, this type of employment was reinforced in Germany in the 20th century and finally developed into …
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Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History
Becker, Sascha O.; Wößmann, Ludger - 2007
Max Weber attributed the higher economic prosperity of Protestant regions to a Protestant work ethic. We provide an alternative theory, where Protestant economies prospered because instruction in reading the Bible generated the human capital crucial to economic prosperity. County-level data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427495
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Brain drain in the age of mass migration: Does relative inequality explain migrant selectivity?
Stolz, Yvonne; Baten, Jörg - 2012
-Bond approaches. We confirm the Roy-Borjas model of migrant self-selection. Moreover, we find that countries like Germany and UK …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280801
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Cartels, managerial incentives, and productive efficiency in German coal mining, 1881-1913
Burhop, Carsten; Lübbers, Thorsten - 2008
coal mining corporations. We focus on coal mining in the Ruhr district, Germany's main mining area. We use stochastic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264842
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Futures past: Economic forecasting in the 20th and 21st century
Fritsche, Ulrich (contributor); Köster, Roman (contributor) - 2020
forecasting has not lost its importance. Futures Past considers the history and present state of economic forecasting, giving a … societies, thereby making a broader claim for greater interdisciplinary cooperation in the history of economics. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014321707
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German Influences on American Economic Thought and American Influences on German Economic Thought / Deutsche Einflüsse auf amerikanisches wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Denken und a...
Hagemann, Harald (contributor) - 2017
Volkswirtschaftslehre zum wichtigsten Aufnahmeland für verfolgte und emigrierte Wissenschaftler aus Deutschland und Österreich wurden … research university was a main attractor for younger American scientists who went to Germany for (post-) graduate studies, WW I … economics. Émigré economists from Germany and Austria made major contributions to the »Americanization« of economics after WW II …
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Real wages and labour productivity in Britain and Germany, 1871-1938: a unified approach to the international comparison of living standards
Broadberry, Stephen; Burhop, Carsten - 2009
Throughout the period 1871-1938, the average British worker was better off than the average German worker, but there were significant differences between major sectors. For the aggregate economy, the real wage gap was about the same as the labour productivity gap, but again there were important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266982
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Transaction costs, liquidity and expected returns at the Berlin stock exchange, 1892-1913
Burhop, Carsten; Gelman, Sergey - 2010
We estimate effective spreads and round-trip transaction costs at the Berlin Stock Exchange for the period 1892-1913 using daily stock market returns for a sample of 27 stocks. Our results show that transaction costs at the main stock exchange in a bank-based financial system at the turn of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270431
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The design of licensing contracts: Chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and electrical engineering in imperial Germany
Burhop, Carsten; Lübbers, Thorsten - 2011
We investigate a sample of 180 technology licensing contracts closed by German chemical, pharmaceutical, and electrical engineering companies between 1880 and 1913. Our empirical results suggest that strategic behaviour seems to be relevant for the design of licensing contracts, whereas inventor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286716
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The Economic Effects of the Protestant Reformation: Testing the Weber Hypothesis in the German Lands
Cantoni, Davide - 2013
Following Max Weber, many theories have hypothesized that Protestantism should have favored economic development. With its religious heterogeneity, the Holy Roman Empire presents an ideal testing ground for this hypothesis. Using population figures of 272 cities in the years 1300–1900, I find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427659