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The winding road to industrial safety: Evidence on the effects of environmental liability on accident prevention in Germany

Hoffmeister, Onno; Schwarze, Reimund - 2007

The German Environmental Liability Law (ELL) of 1991 has introduced far-reaching civil liability for environmental damages with the aim to increase firms? efforts to prevent accidents. Previous studies find poor evidence that this goal has actually been achieved. One and a half decades after the...

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Why are mothers working longer hours in Austria than in Germany? A comparative micro simulation analysis

Dearing, Helene; Hofer, Helmut; Lietz, Christine; … - 2007

Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are …, differences in mothers' employment patterns can partly be explained by the different tax systems: While Germany has a system of …

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How Important is Secondary School Duration for Post-school Education Decisions? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Meyer, Tobias; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2012

duration with an unchanged curriculum. Until recently, Germany had had a longstanding tradition of 13 years of schooling in …

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Is innovative firm behavior correlated with age and gender composition of the workforce? Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012

development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly …

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Innovation and exports of German business services enterprises: First evidence from a new type of firm data

Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - 2012

This paper contributes to the literature by providing the first evidence on the link between innovation activities (measured by the share of engineers and scientists in the workforce) and exports of German business services firms based on a large representative longitudinal sample of...

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Foreign and domestic takeovers in Germany: First comparative evidence on the post-acquisition target performance using new data

Weche Gelübcke, John P. - 2012

This study provides the first comparative evidence of foreign and domestic acquisitions in Germany. A propensity score … Germany which find significant productivity improvements and no changes in terms of employment. These findings are of … particular interest to Germany as one of the most important FDI in ow destinations worldwide. They contribute to the foreign …

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The role of extensive margins of exports in The Great Export Recovery in Germany, 2009/2010

Wagner, Joachim - 2013

the drivers of The Great Export Recovery of 2009/2010 in Germany. …

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The death of German firms: What role for foreign direct investment?

Franco, Chiara; Weche Gelubcke, John P. - 2013

This paper aims at examining the role played by inward Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) in affecting the exit probabilities of German manufacturing firms in the precrisis year 2007. We introduce two main novelties: in the first place, we include the FDI variable, dividing it between types of...

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Exports, R&D and productivity in German business services firms: A test of the Bustos-model

Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - 2012

This paper uses newly available data for German business services firms to test a hypothesis derived by Bustos (AER 2011) in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to export and to engage in R&D. Using a non-parametric test for first order stochastic dominance it is shown...

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Foreign and domestic takeovers in Germany: Cherry-picking and lemon-grabbing

Weche-Gelübcke, John P. - 2012

This study focuses on ex ante performance of domestic and foreign takeover targets in Germany, one of the most …

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