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Bell, David; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2011

Germany and the United Kingdom. Based on nationally representative longitudinal data, our results show that work …

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Effect of perceptions and behaviour on access to and use of financial service: Evidence from South Africa

Annim, Samuel Kobina; Arun, Thankom; Kostov, Philip - 2012

This study investigates the effect of financial perception and behaviour on; (a) general accounts and services, (b … three estimations support the hypothesis that financial perception has a greater effect on the decision to access and use … behaviour is greater than financial perception when making decisions on the take-up and use of investment financial services. It …

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A different look at Lenin's legacy: Trust, risk, fairness and cooperativeness in the two Germanies

Heineck, Guido; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2010

question, we use the reunification of Germany as a natural experiment and study the post-reunification trajectory of …

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Inequality perceptions, distributional norms, and redistributive preferences in East and West Germany

Kuhn, Andreas - 2011

East and West Germany. As expected, there are substantial differences with respect to all three of these measures … or redistributive preferences. Nonetheless, individuals from East Germany tend to be more supportive of state …

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Up or out: Research incentives and career prospects of postdocs in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Leuschner, Ute - 2012

Academic careers in Germany have been under debate for a while. We conduct a survey among postdocs in Germany, to …

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Job loss fears and (extremist) party identification: First evidence from panel data

Geishecker, Ingo; Siedler, Thomas - 2012

There is a large body of literature analyzing the relationship between objective economic conditions and voting behavior, but there is very little evidence of how perceived economic insecurity impacts on political preferences. Using seventeen years of household panel data from the German...

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Taking a Second Chance: Entrepreneurial Restarters in Germany

Wagner, Joachim - 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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German Works Councils in the Production Process

Addison, John T.; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2003

In a sharp break with past German research, some recent estimates have suggested that plants with work councils have 25 to 30 per cent higher productivity than their works-councilfree counterparts. Such findings can only serve to buttress the strong theoretical and policy interest in the German...

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Are Nascent Entrepreneurs Jacks-of-All-Trades? A Test of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data

Wagner, Joachim - 2003

In a recent paper Edward Lazear proposed the jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship. Based on a coherent model of the choice between self-employment and paid employment he shows that having a background in a large number of different roles increases the probability of becoming an...

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Norm-Based Trade Union Membership: Evidence for Germany

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2003

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

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