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Downward drifting sticky floors? : evidence on the development of wage inequality among foreigners in Germany
Ludsteck, Johannes; Lehmer, Florian - 2013 - Preliminary and incomplete
We employ the German social security register data to analyze the development of wage inequality among foreigners in … Germany. The data show a sharp increase of wage inequality which exceeds the size observed for natives. The decomposition … methods proposed by DiNardo et al. (1996) are employed to investigate whether the increase in wage inequality can be explained …
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Long-lasting labour market consequences of German unification
Blien, Uwe; Möller, Joachim; Phan thi Hong Van; … - 2015 - (Final version: Sept. 14, 2015)
This article shows how the impulses of the transformation process in eastern Germany have spread through the economy and the labour market. The form of transformation has long-term effects on the form of control over the economy; it is managed largely from western firms. This fact has manifold...
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Labor productivity growth in EU28 : spatial panel analysis
Olejnik, Alicja; Olejnik, Jakub - 2015
thousands of people 15 years or over. The Human capital is defined by the Employment in Technology and Knowledge …
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The productive city needs both : localization and urbanization economies across spatial scales in the city
Andersson, Martin; Larsson, Johan P.; Lundblad, Joakim - 2015 - This version 2015-01-16
-level production function to show that close proximity to employment density in the own industry, as well as city-wide diversity …
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Heterogeneous firms and substitution by tasks : the productivity effect of migrants : paper prepared for the ERSA Congress 21- 25 August 2012, Bratislava
Haas, Anette; Lucht, Michael - 2012
Economic debate about the consequences of immigration in Germany has largely focused on the wage effects for natives at … wage differences between natives and migrants. This wage differences lead to wage cost advantages for firms. In the long … compensate their lower productivity level by wage cost advantages. We show that the increase of productivity might be explained …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011508126
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Are firms in business groups more productive? : an empirical analysis based on German micro-level data with a special emphasis on the roles of regional and sectoral diversity
Biewen, Elena; Koch, Andreas - 2012 - Preliminiary version
The present paper analyses whether and how the affiliation of a firm to a business group affects its productivity. Based on novel data consisting of official firm data from the German Business Register including ownership information from Bureau van Dijk's MARKUS database and from the Cost...
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Retail productivity in space : capturing productivity returns to market potential in the Swedish retail sector
Öner, Özge - 2013
This paper addresses the relationship between productivity in the retail sector and market size. In the paper, the systematic variations between central and non-central retail markets, as well as the systematic variations across different types of retailing activities are investigated. The...
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Education or creativity : what matters most for economic performance?
Marrocu, Emanuela; Paci, Raffaele - 2011
There is a large consensus among social researchers on the positive role played by human capital on economic performances. The standard way to measure the human capital endowment is to consider the educational attainments by the resident population, usually the share of people with a university...
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The glass ceiling revisited : empirical evidence from the German academic career ladder
Heinrichs, Katrin; Sonnabend, Hendrik - 2020
Women are underrepresented in leadership positions - academia is no exception. Using data on careers of doctoral graduates in Germany, we study gender differences in the decision to stay at university as a postdoctoral researcher and in the intention to become a professor. We find that gender...
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Increasing the competitiveness of Romanian farms in the post-accession period
Gavrilă, Viorica - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 67-74). 2020
The present study investigates various issues related to farm competitiveness, using viability indicators, such as Net Value Added and Net Income of farms, as well as indicators regarding factor productivity, highlighting the relationship between productivity, farm typology and farm size....
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