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Vertikale Arbeitsmarktsegmentation nach dem Geschlecht - ein neoinstitutionalistischer Erklärungsversuch am Beispiel Deutschlands und Schwedens
Festing, Marion; Okech, Jana - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 21 (2007) 1, pp. 42-59
geschlechtsspezifische Segmentationsmuster relevanten gesetzlichen Rahmenbedingungen und deren mögliche Auswirkungen in Deutschland und …
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Retail productivity
Griffith, Rachel; Harmgart, Heike - 2005
Recent attention has focused on the UK's productivity gap in the retail sector. Figure 1 shows an estimate of labour productivity in retail across countries, using output per hour worked. The UK lies well behind the US, France and Germany. Reynolds at al (2005) contribute to this debate by...
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Characteristics of unemployment dynamics: The chain reaction approach
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2007
The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labour market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting lagged adjustment processes. In the context of...
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Offsetting versus mitigation activities to reduce CO2 emissions: A theoretical and empirical analysis for the US and Germany
Lange, Andreas; Ziegler, Andreas - 2012
This paper studies the voluntary provision of public goods that is partially driven by a desire to offset for individual polluting activities. We first extend existing theory and show that offsets allow a reduction in effective environmental pollution levels while not necessarily extending the...
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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 … Multis, in Deutschland zu investieren. Dabei zeigt sich, dass die Standortentscheidung beeinflusst wird vom Niveau der … Lohnkosten in Deutschland und an anderen potentiellen Standorten in europäischen Hocheinkommensländern, aber nicht von den …
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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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Core inflation rates: a comparison of methods based on west German data
Landau, Bettina - 2000
Analyse von Daten für den Preisindex für die Lebenshaltung für (West-)Deutschland. Daneben werden die Methoden aus …
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Comparing the value revelance of R&D reporting in Germany: standard and selection effects
Ramb, Fred; Reitzig, Markus - 2005
On the basis of accounting and market data for firms and groups listed on German stock exchanges between 1997 and 2003, we show that the value relevance of R&D information under German accounting standards can be superior to that provided by US-GAAP and IAS. The results, obtained while...
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Going multinational: What are the effects on home market performance?
Jäckle, Robert - 2006
A number of recent studies nd evidence for the existence of a persistent performance gap between multinational enterprises (MNE) and their domestic competitors. Therefore, the question arises whether successful rms become MNEs or whether going abroad improves home market performance. This paper...
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Exports versus FDI in German manufacturing: firm performance and participation in international markets
Arnold, Jens Matthias; Hussinger, Katrin - 2006
This paper tests some of the predictions of recent advances in trade theory that have focused on different trade patterns of firms within the same sector. Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple (2005) develop a model in which innate productivity differences between firms determine the degree of...
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