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Is Job Stability Declining in Germany? Evidences from Count Data Models

Winkelmann, Rainer; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998

The macro evidence of increased adjustment pressure since the early seventies suggests that job mobility should have increased. Hence, retrospective and spell data from the German Socio-Economic Panel are combined in order to test the hypothesis that job stability for German workers declined...

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Determinants of International Migration: Empirical Evidence for Migration from Developing Countries to Germany

Rotte, Ralph; Vogler, Michael - 1998

available on overall moves (1981-1995) and asylum migration (1984-1995). The estimation results confirm the importance of the …

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Immigration Participation in Social Assistance Programs

Riphahn, Regina T. - 1998

controls for attrition have strong effects on the estimation and simulation results. …

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Immigration Labor and Workplace Safety

Bauer, Thomas K.; Million, Andreas; Rotte, Ralph; … - 1998

Using standard as well as recently developed univariate and bivariate count data models, this paper analyzes the determinants of workplace accidents using a firm data set for Germany. Given the tight system of public workplace safety regulation, introduced partly as early as in 1869, and the...

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The Economics of Hospital Trips and Health Care Reform

Million, Andreas; Rotte, Ralph; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998

One cornerstone of current attempts to reform the German public health care system by introducing private insurance schemes is the assumption that economic incentives play an important role in individual decision-making about using medical help. This hypothesis is examined for the case of demand...

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Learning Efficiency of Economics Students

Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Bauer, Thomas K. - 1998

Using a stochastic frontier approach this paper evaluates the effects of substantial changes in the teaching material on students learning efficiency. The results indicate that the main effects of the re-organization on the learning efficiency was a decreasing importance of students? attendance...

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Labour Mobility - An Adjustment Mechanism in Euroland?

Puhani, Patrick A. - 1999

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate whether labour mobility is likely to act as a sufficient adjustment mechanism in the face of asymmetric shocks in Euroland. To this end, we estimate the elasticity of migration with respect to changes in unemployment and income on the basis of regional...

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The Effects of European Economic and Monetary Union on Wage Behaviour

Lauer, Charlotte - 1999

This paper evaluates the possible consequences of the forthcoming European and Monetary Union on wage behaviour. It will be shown that EMU does not influence wage policy directly, but rather indirectly through its implications on other areas of economic policy, predominantly on monetary policy....

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Exchange Rate Volatility Effects on the German Labour Market: A Survey of Recent Results and Extensions

Buscher, Herbert S.; Mueller, Claudia - 1999

In this paper, a survey on theoretically expected and empirically proved impacts of exchange rate volatility is given. With regard to the West German unemployment, the effects of volatility are empirically analysed using three different volatility measures and four country groups. In...

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Job Satisfaction within the Scottish Academic Profession

Ward, Melanie E.; Sloane, Peter J. - 1999

whole women generally express themselves as more satisfied with their jobs than men. Our results show that reports of …This paper considers job satisfaction in the academic labour market drawing upon a particularly detailed data set of … overall job satisfaction do not vary widely by gender. This result is explained through the nature of our dataset, limited as …

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