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Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Countries often spend billions on university research. There is growing interest in how to assess whether that money is well spent. Is there an objective way to assess the quality of a nation's world-leading science? I attempt to suggest a method, and illustrate it with modern data on economics....

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The Distribution of Top Incomes in Five Anglo-Saxon Countries over the Twentieth Century

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...

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Right to Buy… Time to Move? Investigating the Effect of the Right to Buy on Moving Behaviour in the UK

van Ham, Maarten; Williamson, Lee; Feijten, Peteke; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

One of the goals of the Right to Buy (RTB) was to stimulate labour migration by removing the debilitating effect of social housing on geographical mobility. This is the first study to examine rigorously whether the Right to Buy legislation did indeed 'free-up' those in social housing who bought...

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Labor and Financial Market Interactions: The Case of Labor Income Risk and Car Insurance in the UK 1969-95

Koeniger, Winfried - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

Microeconomic theory predicts that under certain regularity conditions higher idiosyncratic risk increases the propensity to insure against independent marketable risks. We apply these predictions to the specific case of labor income risk and car insurance using data from the UK. The main...

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Taking a Second Chance: Entrepreneurial Restarters in Germany

Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Folklore has it that the comparatively low proportion of self-employed in Germany is in part due to a habit that might …

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How Rigid are Nominal Wages? Evidence and Implications for Germany

Knoppik, Christoph; Beissinger, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

Many of the recent attempts to find evidence of downward nominal wage rigidity in micro data have suffered from a number of problems, including composition bias and the effects of measurement error. In order to avoid these problems we explicitly model the determinants of wage changes and the...

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The Persistent Decline in Unionization in Western and Eastern Germany, 1980-2004: What Can We Learn from a Decomposition Analysis?

Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

western Germany from 1980 to 2004 and in eastern Germany from 1992 to 2004. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and … worker (significant in western Germany only). A decomposition analysis shows that differences in union density over time and … between eastern and western Germany to a large degree cannot be explained by differences in the characteristics of employees …

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Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in Small Establishments

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Bonin, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Based on a large employer-employee matched data set, the paper investigates the effects of variable enforcement of German dismissal protection legislation on the employment dynamics in small establishments. Specifically, using a difference-in-differences approach, we study the effect of changes...

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Do Works Councils Inhibit Investment?

Addison, John T.; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

context of Germany where the works council is the analogue of workplace unionism. Using parametric and nonparametric methods …

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Norm-Based Trade Union Membership: Evidence for Germany

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

for social custom effects in the determination of union membership. Using panel data for Germany, we find evidence for …

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