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Die Methodendiskussion in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften vor dem Hintergrund der Finanzkrise
Schmidt, Christoph M.; Moore, Nils aus dem - In: Methodenpluralismus in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften, (pp. 143-181). 2010
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Quo vadis, Ökonomik?
Schmidt, Christoph M.; Moore, Nils aus dem - 2009
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Quo vadis, Ökonomik?
Schmidt, Christoph M.; Moore, Nils aus dem - 2009
unter Druck, ihre Erklärungs- und Beratungskompetenz werden bezweifelt. In Deutschland kulminiert die Debatte in einem … leidenschaftlichen Streit um die künftige Ausrichtung der Fakultäten für Volkswirtschaftslehre. Vertreter der traditionellen … oder die spezifischen Auswirkungen wirtschaftspolitischer Maßnahmen ermitteln. Die Volkswirtschaftslehre als akademische …
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Tobacco and alcohol: complements or substitutes? A statistical Guinea Pig approach
Requate, Till; Göhlmann, Silja; Tauchmann, Harald; … - 2006
The question of whether two drugs - namely alcohol and tobacco - are used as complements or substitutes is of crucial interest if side-effects of anti-drug policies are considered. Numerous papers have empirically addressed this issue by estimating demand systems for alcohol and tobacco and...
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Reforming Social Welfare as We Know It? A Microsimulation Study for Germany
Jacobebbinghaus, Peter; Steiner, Viktor - 2003
Social assistance and unemployment assistance, which provide means tested income support (social welfare) without pre-specified time limits, are viewed as one important reason for the persistently high level of unemployment in Germany by many economists. In order to increase work incentives and,...
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Local User-Producer Interaction in Innovation and Export Performance of Firms
Rammer, Christian; Beise, Marian - 2003
There is ample evidence that user-producer interaction is an important factor for successful innovations. It is often claimed that user-producer interaction is most effcient in close proximity. On the other hand, innovations are a major determinant for the export performance of firms. Does this...
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Extended benefit entitlement periods and the duration of unemployment in West Germany
Steiner, Viktor - 1997
Germany1, as most other European countries, has been plagued by a persistently high level of long?term unemployment since the early 1980's. In contrast, long? term unemployment is much less of a problem in the United States. One potential reason for the different structure of unemployment...
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Relative Earnings and the Demand for Unskilled Labor in West German Manufacturing
Steiner, Viktor; Wagner, Kersten - 1997
We analyze the economic factors which have contributed to the dramatic decline of the employment share of unskilled labor in German manufacturing, in particular the role played by the relatively rigid earnings structure. Potential effects of intensified international competition and skill?biased...
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East West German wage convergence - How far have we got?
Steiner, Viktor; Wagner, Kersten - 1997
At the start of the German unification process it was a commonly held view that east German living conditions will converge to west Geman levels within a few years. This view was not only held by notoriously optimistic politicians but also by a great many of professional economists. With...
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Employment Effects of Publicly Financed Training Programs The East German Experience
Kraus, Florian; Puhani, Patrick A.; Steiner, Viktor - 1997
We analyze the effectiveness of publicly financed training and retraining programs in east Germany as measured by their effects on individual re-employment probabilities after training. These are estimated by discrete hazard rate models on the basis of individual-level panel data. We account for...
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