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Determinants of Avoidable Deaths from Ischaemic Heart Diseases in East and West Germany

Schwierz, Christoph; Wübker, Ansgar - 2009

ischaemic heart diseases (IHD) inWest and East Germany from 1996 to 2004. Our main result reveals that the number of … catch-up process in the number of IC facilities provided relative to West Germany. …

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The research potential of new types of enterprise data based on surveys from official statistics in Germany

Wagner, Joachim - 2009

A new generation of data sets became available recently in the research data centres of the German statistical offices. These new data combine information for firms gathered in different surveys (or from other sources) that could not be analyzed jointly before. This paper offers a short...

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One-third codetermination at company supervisory boards and firm performance in German manufacturing industries: first direct evidence from a new type of enterprise data

Wagner, Joachim - 2009

This paper contributes to the empirical literature on the co-determination - firm performance nexus by using a new type of data that combines information on the co-determination status of enterprises from a commercial data base and supplementary information collected from the firms with...

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Offshoring and firm performance: self-selection, effects on performance, or both?

Wagner, Joachim - 2009

what is often argued, therefore, we find no evidence for a negative causal effect of offshoring on employment in Germany or …

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Dialects, cultural Identity, and economic exchange

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - 2010

We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...

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The German banking system and the global financial crisis: Causes, developments and policy responses

Bleuel, Hans-H. - 2009

Germany's banking sector has been severely hit by the global financial crisis. In a German context as of February, 2009 …Der deutsche Bankensektor ist durch die internationale Finanzkrise schwer getroffen. Auf Deutschland und die im Februar …

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Abgrenzung deutscher Arbeitsmarktregionen

Eckey, Hans-Friedrich; Kosfeld, Reinhold; Türck, Matthias - 2006

Functional delineated labour market regions are needed for regional economic analyses. In dependence of the definition of regions economic regions in space can be seen as rich or poor areas. In addition to this statistical and econometric reasons argue for using functional labour market regions....

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How long does it take to become an entrepreneurial society: The case of german convergence in self-employment

Schindele, Yvonne - 2010

Since the beginning of the transformation of East Germany from a socialist planned economy to a market economy, there …, and political problems of East Germany, thereby narrowing the gap between East and West Germany. This paper uses panel … West Germany observed during the first years after reunification has not been maintained. In short, some East German …

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Wirksamkeit der Förderung der beruflichen Weiterbildung vor und nach den Hartz-Reformen

Bonin, Holger; Schneider, Hilmar - 2006

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of occupational training programs for the unemployed before and after the substantial amendments in German labor market legislation known as Hartz reforms. Based on the official evaluation of the reforms, we show that program impacts vary much across...

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Who are the workers who never joined a union? Empirical evidence from Germany

Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2005

provides the first empirical analysis of trade union never-membership in Germany. We show that between 54 and 59 percent of all … employees in Germany have never been members of a trade union. Individuals' probability of never-membership is significantly …

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