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Minimum wages and competition : the case of the German roofing sector

Kraft, Kornelius; Rammer, Christian; Gottschalk, Sandra - 2012

East Germany which point to a substantial shift in industry structure. Minimum wages decreased both market entries and … some type of evasion strategy in eastern Germany, particularly since wages for skilled roofers declined towards the minimum …

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Deregulation and the determinants of entry : evidence from the German interurban bus industry

Dürr, Niklas S.; Hüschelrath, Kai - 2016

Two years after the deregulation of the German interurban bus industry in January 2013, two new entrants emerged as …

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Patterns of entry and exit in the deregulated German interurban bus industry

Dürr, Niklas S.; Hüschelrath, Kai - 2017

deregulation in January 2013. Using a comprehensive data set of all firm and route entries and exits, we find that the industry … spatial perspective, three years after deregulation, the entire interurban bus network connects 60 percent of all 644 larger …

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Berufliche Weiterbildung und Existenzgründung

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reize, Frank - 1999

In Deutschland werden vielfach hohe Anforderungen an die berufliche Qualifikation von Existenzgründern gestellt. Im … self-employed and job movers. The analysis is based on a cross section of individual data for West Germany in 1991 …

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Founder's human capital, entry strategies and start-up size

Gottschalk, Sandra; Müller, Kathrin; Niefert, Michaela - 2009

This paper analyzes empirically the determinants of new born firms' initial size. As survival prospects of young firms tend to be linked to a firm's start-up size, a better understanding of the factors influencing start-up size is crucial. Most of the rare literature on initial firm size focuses...

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

Wolf, Elke - 2000

Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this … additional work-sharing in Germany. Furthermore, the match between actual and desired hours of Germans would improve if Germans … that hours restrictions shrank over time, which means, Germany seems to be moving towards a more flexible labor market. …

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Gregariousness, interactive jobs and wages

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Schulz, Nico Johannes - 2011

, to the best of our knowledge for the first time for Germany, gregariousness and social interaction at the workplace and …

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How much does a year off cost? : estimating the wage effects of employment breaks and part-time periods

Beblo, Miriam; Wolf, Elke - 2000

Discontinuities in the employment profile are supposed to cause wage cuts since they imply an interruption in the accumulation of human capital as well as a depreciation of the human capital stock built up in the past. In this paper, we estimate the return to effective experience, taking into...

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Der Mindestlohn im Dachdeckerhandwerk : Auswirkungen auf Beschäftigung, Arbeitnehmerschutz und Wettbewerb

Aretz, Bodo; Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry; Rammer, … - 2012

Der seit 1997 im Dachdeckerhandwerk eingeführte und seit 2003 bundeseinheitlich geregelte, allgemeinverbindliche Mindestlohn führt vor allem in Ostdeutschland auch im internationalen Vergleich zu einer starken Betroffenheit der Branche vom Mindestlohn. Die damit einhergehende effektive...

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Competition in the German interurban bus industry : a snapshot two years after liberalization

Dürr, Niklas S.; Hüschelrath, Kai - 2015

We study competition in the German interurban bus industry two years after its liberalization in January 2013. In addition to a brief characterization of the liberalization process and several general market developments, we provide a detailed analysis of selected market characteristics such as...

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