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Verbessertes Arbeitsmarktumfeld stärkt Wachstum des Produktionspotentials in Deutschland
Boss, Alfred; Dovern, Jonas; Meier, Carsten-Patrick; … - 2007
Das Wachstum des Produktionspotentials in Deutschland dürfte sich seit dem Jahr 2004 um rund einen halben Prozentpunkt …
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Wages and Employment Growth: Disaggregated Evidence for West Germany
Suedekum, Jens; Blien, Uwe - 2004
We address the effects of wages on employment growth on the basis of a theoretical model from which cost and demand effects can be derived. In the empirical analysis we take a highly disaggregated perspective and apply a newly developed shift-share regression technique on an exhaustive and very...
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Locating foreign affiliates in Germany: The case of Swedish MNEs
Braconier, Henrik; Ekholm, Karolina - 2001
schwedischer Tochtergesellschaften in Deutschland im Vergleich mit denen in anderen Ländern untersucht. Es zeigt sich, dass die … den anderen europäischen Ländern. Wir untersuchen auch den Effekt der Arbeitskosten auf die Entscheidung schwedischer … Multis, in Deutschland zu investieren. Dabei zeigt sich, dass die Standortentscheidung beeinflusst wird vom Niveau der …
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Location choice and employment decisions: a comparison of German and Swedish multinationals
Becker, Sascha O.; Ekholm, Karolina; Jäckle, Robert; … - 2005
Using data for German and Swedish multinational enterprises (MNEs), this paper assesses international employment patterns. It analyzes determinants of location choice and the degree of substitutability of labor across locations. Countries with highly skilled labor forces attract German MNEs, but...
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German Foreign Direct Investment and Wages
Lochner, Stefan; Broll, Udo - 2007
Over the last decade, German multinationals created about two million jobs abroad with increasing foreign direct investment (FDI). While there are many reasons for firms to go multinational and probably just as many for Germany's high unemployment, this paper aims to investigate the relationship...
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Differentiation of Green Taxes: A Political-Economy Analysis for Germany
Anger, Niels; Böhringer, Christoph; Lange, Andreas - 2006
In this paper we study political-economy determinants of the differentiation of environmental taxes between sectors. Using a common-agency model, we provide predictions on tax differentiation which are then tested using data from the German Ecological Tax Reform. As the reform is revenue neutral...
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The demand for money by private firms in a regulated economy: Theoretical underpinnings and empirical evidence for Germany 1960-1998
Bohl, Martin T.; Sell, Friedrich L. - 2002
Based on a cash-in-advance approach, this paper investigates theoretically the determinants of money holdings of firms under the conditions of a highly regulated labor market and analyses empirically the demand for money of German businesses during the period 1960-1998. As a result of our...
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Problematik internationaler Arbeitskostenvergleiche
Hinze, Jörg - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 78 (1998) 5, pp. 301-307
Arbeitskosten in Deutschland zwar wieder etwas beruhigt. Gleichwohl finden internationale Arbeitskostenvergleiche weiterhin große …
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The German apprenticeship system after unification
Wagner, Karin - 1998
The vocational training system is an important factor within the German institutionalframework. Its high output of skilled and well-educated employees provides a basis for Germany's export success and innovation. In the last few years, however,growing concern has been expressed about the...
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