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The effects of website provision on the demand for German women's magazines

Kaiser, Ulrich - 2001

differentiated product demand are estimated on panel data covering the period 1990 to 2000, showing that website provision does not …What happens to demand if a magazine launches a website? This question is empirically analyzed for the German women … demand than competitors that did not go online. Descriptive evidence on the magazines? website contents shows that websites …

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What Drives Giving in Extensive Welfare States? The Case of Germany

Borgloh, Sarah - 2008

elasticities indicating that the mechanisms underlying the act of giving are similar for countries with highly different welfare …

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Central wage bargaining and local wage flexibility: evidence from the entire wage distribution

Büttner, Thiess; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 1998

We argue that in labor markets with central wage bargaining wage flexibility varies systematically across the wage distribution: local wage flexibility is more relevant for the upper part of the wage distribution, and flexibility of wages negotiated under central wage bargaining affects the...

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Gender wage differences in West Germany: a cohort analysis

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Wunderlich, Gaby - 2000

A comprehensive descriptive analysis of gender wage differences over a long time period is missing for West Germany. Using an empirical approach which takes into account explicitely changes of wage distributions for both males and females as well as life-cycle and birth cohort effects, we go...

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Rising wage inequality, the decline of collective bargaining, and the gender wage gap

Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2010

exclusively driven by wage differences within and between different industries. Labor demand or firm wage policy related effects …

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Polarization and rising wage inequality: comparing the U.S. and Germany

Antonczyk, Dirk; DeLeire, Thomas; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2010

This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz (1995) to separate age, time, and cohort effects. Between 1979 and 2004, wage inequality increased strongly in both the U.S. and Germany but there were various country specific...

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Beyond the mean gender wage gap: Decomposition of differences in wage distributions using quantile regression

Heinze, Anja - 2010

Using linked employer-employee data, this study measures and decomposes the differences in the earnings distribution between male and female employees in Germany. I extend the traditional decomposition to disentangle the effect of human capital characteristics and the effect of firm...

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Are IPOs of Different VCs Different?

Tykvová, Tereza; Walz, Uwe - 2004

This paper sets out to analyze the influence of different types of venture capitalists on the performance of their portfolio firms around and after IPO. We investigate the hypothesis that different governance structures, objectives, and track records of different types of VCs have a significant...

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A dynamic heterogeneous labour demand model for German manufacturing

Falk, Martin; Koebel, Bertrand M. - 2000

a somewhat higher wage elasticity in absolute terms than medium-skilled labour. A small part of shift in demand away …

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The empirical assessment of technology differences: comparing the comparable

Schmidt, Christoph M.; Frondel, Manuel - 2002

elasticities and argues that differences in estimated substitution elasticities should be decomposed into two counterfactual … argument is illustrated by the example of energy-price elasticities of capital before and after the oil crisis of the early …

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