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Inward Investment and the Drivers of Post Recession Recovery in Germany

Driffield, Nigel; Temouri, Yama - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 234 (2014) 6, pp. 775-799

This paper examines changes in the drivers of productivity in Germany over the period 1997–2012. We start by comparing …

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Strategies for Managing Bank’s Legacy Assets:part 2 (of 2) Assessment of strategies and their implementation

Jenk, Justin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

This two-part working paper series represents a distillation of practical approaches with regard to the successful management of so-called “legacy assets” which include both impaired as well as non-performing loans, particularly in those in the real estate and property sectors. This two-part...

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COMPARING DESIRED FERTILITY AND PERCEPTIONS OF MOTHERHOOD IN GERMANY AND FRANCE

Ruckdeschel, Kerstin - In: Demográfia English Edition 55 (2012) 5, pp. 5-36

There are marked differences between France and Germany in terms of fertility levels, which may be traced back to … from the German and French Generations and Gender Surveys (GGS) of 2005, with western and eastern Germany analysed … separately. The results show that attitudinal differences between western Germany and France are less pronounced than those …

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Absence from Work of the Self-Employed: A Comparison with Paid Employees

Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Utilising a large representative data set for Germany, this study contrasts absenteeism of self-employed individuals …

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FAMILY POLICY AND DEMOGRAPHIC EFFECTS: THE CASE OF GERMANY

Bujard, Martin - In: Demográfia English Edition 54 (2011) 5, pp. 56-78

short-term effects or a limited set of policy measures, and the unvarying TFR in Germany does not necessarily contradict the …

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An analysis of cultural shifts - the examples of Luxembourg, France, Germany

Schinzel, Ursula - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 11 (2015) 2/3, pp. 308-326

Luxembourg, France and Germany. The design of the research is the replication of Hofstede's study. Hofstede's original … questionnaire was administered to employees in one company in Luxembourg, France, and Germany. A total of 134 filled … France and 18 from Germany. The cultural dimensions were calculated and compared to Hofstede's initial data for Luxembourg …

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Heimarbeit: immer weniger Menschen in Deutschland gehen ihrem Beruf von zu Hause aus nach

Brenke, Karl - In: DIW Wochenbericht 81 (2014) 8, pp. 131-139

In 2012, almost five million people, or roughly 10 percent of the labor force in Germany, worked from home most or some … then. Yet overall employment in Germany has increased, as has the percentage of employees working from home in the European … Union as a whole. Compared with other EU countries, Germany is somewhat below average when it comes to home working; in …

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How You Ask Is What You Get: Willingness-to-Pay for a QALY in Germany

Ahlert, Marlies; Breyer, Friedrich; Schwettmann, Lars - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014

We report results of a survey of a representative sample of the German population in which respondents were asked for their willingness-to-pay (WTP) for either an extension of their life or an improvement in their health corresponding to a gain of one quality-adjusted life year (QALY). While one...

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Career Choice Motivations of University Students

Haase, Heiko; Arndt Lautenschl?ger - In: International Journal of Business Administration 2 (2011) 1, pp. 2-13

In view of the universities' role as a source of qualified labour, the paper aims at exploring what motivations determine students¡¯ career choice. Therefore, we performed a cross-sectional study of the underlying motives for the career intentions of 645 students from two German universities....

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German and Austrian Foreign Direct Investment in Brazilian Regions: Which Are the Location Choice Factors?

Korez-Vide, Romana; Voller, Patrick; Bobek, Vito - In: Journal of Management and Strategy 5 (2014) 4, pp. 68-81

Due to the liberalization and transformation of emerging markets economies, the attractiveness of these countries for foreign direct investors has been rising in the last decades. This paper explores foreign direct investment location choice factors of German and Austrian companies in Brazilian...

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