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The Political Economy of Corporate Responsibility in Germany, 1995-2008

Kinderman, Daniel P. - 2013

across countries. Germany is said to be a ‘laggard' in Corporate Responsibility. This paper both describes and tries to … few years later. I argue that this ambivalence can be explained with reference to Germany's institutional framework … past fifteen years has been accompanied by a growing dynamism of CR in Germany, and I present causal mechanisms which link …

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The long-term costs of government surveillance : insights from Stasi spying in East Germany

Lichter, Andreas; Löffler, Max; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2019

case of the Stasi in East Germany. Exploiting regional variation in the number of spies and administrative features of the … institutional trust in post-reunification Germany. We also find substantial and long-lasting economic effects of Stasi surveillance …

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The Long-Term Implications of Destruction During the Second World War on Private Wealth in Germany

Halbmeier, Christoph; Schroeder, Carsten - 2023

By the end of the Second World War, an estimated 20 percent of the West German housing stock had been destroyed. Building on a theoretical lifecycle model of wealth accumulation, this paper examines the extent to which regional differences in destruction can explain differences in wealth...

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Persecution and escape

Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun W.; … - 2023

We study the role of professional networks in facilitating emigration of Jewish academics dismissed from their positions by the Nazi government. We use individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of dismissals to estimate causal effects. Academics with more ties to early émigrés...

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Persecution and escape

Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun W.; … - 2023

We study the role of professional networks in facilitating emigration of Jewish academics dismissed from their positions by the Nazi government. We use individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of dismissals to estimate causal eects. Academics with more ties to early émigrés...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014481039

Employer Preferences and Social Policy: Business and the Development of Job Security Regulations in Germany since World War I

Emmenegger, Patrick; Marx, Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This article examines the role of business in the historical development of job security regulations in Germany from …

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Employer Preferences and Social Policy : Business and the Development of Job Security Regulations in Germany Since World War I

Emmenegger, Patrick - 2010

This article examines the role of business in the historical development of job security regulations in Germany from …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141224

The long-term costs of government surveillance : insights from stasi spying in East Germany

Lichter, Andreas; Löffler, Max; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2019 - This version: August 2019

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Germany, Europe and the crisis

Halevi, Joseph - In: PSL quarterly review 76 (2023) 306, pp. 215-223

This paper will put forward a number of economic considerations raised by the Russia-Ukraine conflict with the external strong participation, on the side of the latter, of the United States and its NATO allies. We begin with some observations regarding the United States, followed by the...

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Understanding West German economic growth in the 1950s

Eichengreen, Barry; Ritschl, Albrecht - 2008

We evaluate explanations for why Germany grew so quickly in the 1950s. The recent literature has emphasized convergence … ; productivity ; Germany …

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