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Human Capital and Cross-Country Comparison of Inequality
Viaene, Jean-Marie; Zilcha, Itzhak - 2002
The paper studies the effects of cross-country differences in the productionprocess of human capital on income distribution and growth. Our overlapping gen-erations economy has the following features: (1) consumers are heterogenous withrespect to parental human capital and wealth; (2)...
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The Relative Importance of Labour Market Reforms to Economic Growth
Aiginger, Karl - 2003
contracts. The largest continental economies - Germany, France and Italy - did not reform their institutions to the same extent …
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Diversity of Welfare Systems in the EU: A Challenge for Policy Coordination
Biffl, Gudrun - 2003
As the EU economies and societies become increasingly integrated, and as labour market behaviour patterns converge across borders, the EU strives to develop a substantially common social identity. To this end, it seeks to promote the development of a sustainable institutional framework which...
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Die wirtschaftswissenschaftliche DDR-Forschung in der Sowjetunion
Weißenburger, Ulrich - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 59 (1990) 1, pp. 80-87
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Does German development aid promote German exports?
Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas - 2008
exports from Germany to the recipient countries. The findings indicate that in the long run,German aid is associated with an …
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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...
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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 …
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Is innovative firm behavior correlated with age and gender composition of the workforce? Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012
development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly …
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Innovation and exports of German business services enterprises: First evidence from a new type of firm data
Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - 2012
This paper contributes to the literature by providing the first evidence on the link between innovation activities (measured by the share of engineers and scientists in the workforce) and exports of German business services firms based on a large representative longitudinal sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294458
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Foreign and domestic takeovers in Germany: First comparative evidence on the post-acquisition target performance using new data
Weche Gelübcke, John P. - 2012
This study provides the first comparative evidence of foreign and domestic acquisitions in Germany. A propensity score … Germany which find significant productivity improvements and no changes in terms of employment. These findings are of … particular interest to Germany as one of the most important FDI in ow destinations worldwide. They contribute to the foreign …
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