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The authors compare a firm's costs and benefits of providing apprenticeship training in Austria and Switzerland, using … pay in Austria, which in turn is associated with collective bargaining agreements and competition with alternative school …
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Historical events are reflected in asset prices. In this paper, we analyse government bond prices of Germany and … Austria traded on the Swiss bourse during WWII. Some war events that are generally considered crucial are clearly reflected in … is Germany's capitulation in 1945. The analysis of financial markets provides a fruitful method to evaluate the …
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Previous assessments of nominal exchange rate determination have focused upon a narrow set of models typically of the 1970 s vintage, including monetary and portfolio balance models. In this paper we re-assess the in-sample fit and out-of-sample prediction of a wider set of models that have been...
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One can be independent, or subject to decisions made by others. This paper empirically tests whether individuals attach an intrinsic value to the institutional difference between independence and hierarchy. Taking self-employment as an important case of independence, it is shown that the...
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treatments in Switzerland using identical survey techniques previously used in Germany and the United States. In Switzerland …
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-speaking Switzerland is greater than in Germany. The impact of the first-generation immigrants' destination decision on their offspring … results suggest that the educational system of Switzerland, relative to the German system, enhances the performance of …
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This paper investigates the development of local public finance in Germany, Switzerland, Poland and the United Kingdom …
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, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting within-country variation, we show that a one …We explore the role of social capital in the spread of the recent Covid-19 pandemic in independent analyses for Austria …
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minority children - lack access to a computer at home. Does this impede educational achievement? We test this hypothesis by … computer ownership and use, we find no effects on any educational outcomes, including grades, standardized test scores, credits …
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