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This paper shows that 19th-century industrialization is an important determinant of the significant changes in Germany’s economic geography observed in recent decades. Using novel data on economic activity in 163 labor market regions in West Germany, we establish that nearly half of them...
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This paper shows that 19th-century industrialization is an important determinant of the significant changes in Germany’s economic geography observed in recent decades. Using novel data on economic activity in 163 labor market regions in West Germany, we establish that nearly half of them...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014080087
This paper shows that 19th-century industrialization is an important determinant of the significant changes in Germany's economic geography observed in recent decades. Using novel data on economic activity in 163 labor market regions in West Germany, we establish that nearly half of them...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013332122
This paper shows that 19th-century industrialization is an important determinant of the significant changes in Germany’s economic geography observed in recent decades. Using novel data on economic activity in 163 labor market regions in West Germany, we establish that nearly half of them...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013281419
This paper investigates the origins of the shareholder-orientated corporate governance (CG) model of the US and the stakeholder-orientated model prevailing in continental Europe (exemplified by Switzerland and Germany) for most of the 20th century. We reject the most common theories, which...
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women's households, across these five countries. Our primary focus is on wealth, including both financial and non …In this report, we assess the economic well-being of elderly women in cross-national perspective, comparing the United … they have very different patterns of private wealth holding. Using the Luxembourg Wealth Study (LWS) which contains …
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data is available for 2012 only. Individual level wealth data allows to analyze the gender wealth gap between women and men …We examine the gender wealth gap with a focus on pension wealth and statutory pension rights. By taking into account … employment characteristics of women and men, we are able and identify the extent to which the redistributive effect of pension …
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