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Using Family Histories to Understand the Intergenerational Transmission of Chronic Poverty
Miller, Robert - eSocialSciences - 2007
individual life histories is proposed. The procedure used to construct a three-generation ‘social genealogical’ chart of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699094
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Still different after all these years. Extensive and intensive margins of exports in East and West German manufacturing enterprises
Wagner, Joachim - 2014
This paper uses a new tailor-made data set to investigate the differences in extensive and intensive margins of exports in manufacturing firms from East Germany and West Germany. It documents that these margins do still differ in 2010, 20 years after the re-unification of Germany. West German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010941027
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Bei der Erwerbstätigkeit der Frauen liegt Ostdeutschland vorn
Holst, Elke; Wieber, Anna - In: DIW Wochenbericht 81 (2014) 40, pp. 967-975
a study conducted by DIW Berlin using Socio- Economic Panel (SOEP) data, however, many women would prefer to work more … hours per week. A comparison of the desired, agreed, and actual weekly working hours of women in the east and west of the … nach dem Mauerfall liegt die Erwerbstätigkeit von Frauen in Ostdeutschland immer noch höher als in Westdeutschland. Der …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011266554
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Clusterpolitiken in Bayern und Thüringen: Förderpraxis nimmt wenig Rücksicht auf theoretische Vorbehalte
Heimpold, Gerhard - In: Wirtschaft im Wandel 17 (2011) 10, pp. 356-363
The contribution analyzes cluster policies pursued in the Federal States of Bavaria and Thuringia. The investigation is based on the exploration of government documents. In both countries cluster policy is target at strengthening competitiveness. The documents explored do not reveal an economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009350252
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The Erosion of Union Membership in Germany: Determinants, Densities, Decompositions
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten; Wang, Qingwei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
East and West Germany. In East-West comparison, differences in the characteristics of the work force reflect a lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703126
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Financial Analysts’ Forecasts and Unprecedented Events: The Case of German Reunification
Ghani, WaQar; Szewczyk, Samuel; Shabbir, Tayyeb - In: International Advances in Economic Research 13 (2007) 2, pp. 123-138
We use the chain of events from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the reunification of Germany to examine how capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005705502
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Why More West than East German Firms Export
Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Using unique new data and a recently introduced non-linear decomposition technique this paper shows that the huge difference in the propensity to export between West and East German plants is to a large part due to differences in firm size and human capital intensity.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822270
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Rising Wage Dispersion, After All! The German Wage Structure at the Turn of the Century
Kohn, Karsten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Using register data from the IAB employment sample, this paper studies the wage structure in the German labor market throughout the years 1992-2001. Wage dispersion has generally been rising. The increase was more pronounced in East Germany and occurred predominantly in the lower part of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822675
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Socioeconomic heritage and rapid firm growth
Wyrwich, Michael - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The present paper sheds light on how growth of young firms is affected by expansive strategies and the socioeconomic heritage of their main actors. "Socioeconomic heritage" has to do with socialization, prior socioeconomic circumstances, and regional growth conditions; the term is elaborated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509230
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Much ado about little: The fiscal impact of German economic unification
Posen, Adam - In: CESifo Forum 6 (2005) 4, pp. 33-36
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004998710