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Money for nothing and your chips for free? : the anatomy of the PC wage differential

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 1999

In this paper, the role of the computer at the workplace will be examined in determining the wage structure in Germany …) had for France, that in Germany the coefficient for computer usage at the workplace did NOT remain stable and although …-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) die Rolle der Nutzung von Computern am Arbeitsplatz als Determinante der Lohnstruktur in Deutschland untersucht …

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Explaining export success in the UK and German medical equipment industry

Anderton, Bob; Schultz, Siegfried - 1999

the aggregate analysis. Germany spends more on product quality enhancing activities such as R&D and investment in the … durchgeführten Fallstudien führen zu ähnlichen Schlußfolgerungen wie die aggregierte Analyse. In Deutschland sind mehr Ausgaben für …

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Neuere Entwicklungen in der industrieökonomischen Forschung und die aktuelle Berichterstattung über die technologische Leistungsfähigkeit Deutschlands

Haid, Alfred; Münter, Markus Thomas - 1999

Einleitung: Im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung werden seit Jahren "Berichte zur technologischen Leistungsfähigkeit Deutschlands" vorgelegt, die den Strukturwandel in Richtung wissensintensiver Wirtschaftszweige und Tätigkeiten im zeitlichen und internationalen...

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Lohnspreizung und Arbeitslosigkeit : theoretische Erklärungsansätze und Stand empirischer Forschung

Kohnz, Simone; Erber, Georg - 2000

. Entwicklungen in Deutschland 5.1. Entwicklung der Lohngleichheit 5.2. Trade-off zwischen Arbeitslosigkeit und Lohnspreizung 6 ….S. during the 1990s compared to continental Europe and Germany in particular has lead to the statement of the trade … supply side conditions for skill formation. By summing up empirical research results on this issue for the U.S. and Germany …

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The effect of maternity leave on women's pay in Germany 1984-1994

Ondrich, Jan I.; Spieß, C. Katharina; Yang, Qing - 2002 - Revised May 2002

In 1986 German federal parental leave and benefit policy was expanded in several ways, extending the potential duration of leave from six to ten months and paying child-rearing benefits to all new mothers regardless of their employment status before childbirth. The potential duration has...

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Innovation clusters : combining physical and virtual links

Preißl, Brigitte - 2003

Innovation is increasingly seen as a collective action which involves many different actors operating in a cluster context. These clusters are usually conceived as local agglomerations. In this paper it will be argued that they are an important tool to study innovation, but the globalisation of...

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Winners and losers : fragmentation, trade and wages revisited

Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2004 - Updated version: March 2004

Our paper investigates the link between international outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and combining it with industry level information on industries' outsourcing activities from input-output tables. By doing so we can arguably overcome the potential aggregation bias as...

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What makes an entrepreneur and does it pay? : native men, Turks, and other migrants in Germany

Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Zimmermann, … - 2003

This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to … Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs in the European Union. We identify the characteristics of the self …

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The dynamics of earnings in Germany : evidence from social security records

Bönke, Timm; Giesecke, Matthias; Lüthen, Holger - 2015

This paper uncovers ongoing trends in idiosyncratic earnings volatility across generations by decomposing residual earnings auto-covariances into a permanent and a transitory component. We employ data on complete earnings life cycles forprime age men born 1935 through 1974 that covers earnings...

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Gender quotas in the boardroom : new evidence from Germany

Fedorets, Alexandra; Gibert, Anna; Burow, Norma - 2019

We examine the introduction of a gender quota law in Germany, mandating a minimum 30% of the underrepresented gender on … the supervisory boards of a particular type of firms. We exploit the fact that Germany has a two-tier corporate system …

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