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Entry and competition in freight transport: the case of a prospective transalpine rail link between France and Italy

Prady, Delphine; Ullrich, Hannes - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

We analyze the expected effects of building a rail tunnel between Lyon and Turin on i) the market shares of the established and the new suppliers, and ii) consumer surplus. The prospective project consists of a 53km rail tunnel providing freight shippers with a new alpine path. We calibrate an...

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Arbeitszeiten im Wandel: Welche Rolle spielt die Veränderung der Wirtschaftsstruktur?

Wolf, Elke - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1999

In dieser Analyse wird auf Basis der Mikrozensen aus den Jahren 1991, 1993 und 1995 die zunehmende Verbreitung der Arbeitszeitflexibilisierung in der Bundesrepublik nachgezeichnet. Anschließend wird untersucht, inwieweit diese auf die Veränderung der Wirtschaftsstruktur zurückzuführen ist....

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Female labor force participation and the big five

Wichert, Laura; Pohlmeier, Winfried - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits and female labor force participation. While research on the role of cognitive skills for individual labor market success has a long tradition in economics, comparatively little is known about the channels through which...

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Innovations induce asymmetric employment movements

Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1999

This paper provides a labour supply explanation to the observation that in Germany employment changes are asymmetric during the business cycle. Employment increases are slower, because the reservation wage of workers increases in times of job uncertainty. Workers are afraid in those periods of...

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Wage Penalties for Career Interruptions: An Empirical Analysis for West Germany

Beblo, Miriam; Wolf, Elke - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

which can only be approximated using just the IAB employment sample. Our IV fixed effects estimation results suggest that …

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Comparing the part-time wage gap in Germany and the Netherlands

Wolf, Elke - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001

In this paper, I contrast the quality of part-time jobs - in terms of hourly wage rates - with those of full-timers. Using the Netherlands as a benchmark, helps to assess the size and seriousness of the estimated wage differentials in Germany. Based on two comparable household surveys, I...

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Lower wages for less hours? A simultaneous wage-hours model for Germany

Wolf, Elke - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000

estimation. …

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Loosening hours constraints on the supply of labor: what if Germans had a Dutch labor market?

Wolf, Elke - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000

Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this back-of-the-envelope calculation overestimates the effect of loosening hours constraints, because even in a very flexible labor market there will exist hours restrictions for...

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Intangible assets and firm-level productivity

Crass, Dirk; Peters, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

-parametric (Olley and Pakes, Levinsohn and Petrin) productivity estimation methods. … assets are conducive to firm-level productivity. Our study contributes to the literature by simultaneously comparing … productivity effects of innovative capital, human capital, branding capital and organizational capital and testing whether …

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Do Computers Call for Training? Firm-level Evidence on Complementarities Between ICT and Human Capital Investments

Hempell, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003

?intensive firms. Comparing the impacts on productivity and wage costs shows that ICT raise the profitability of training high …

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