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German labour costs have risen only moderately: European comparison of trends in labour and unit labour costs in 2014 and the first two quarters of 2015
Herzog-Stein, Alexander; Joebges, Heike; Niechoj, Torsten; … - 2015
Lohnstückkosten nachgegangen. Im Jahr 2014 kostete in Deutschland eine Arbeitsstunde in der Privatwirtschaft 31,9 Euro. Wie im Vorjahr … belegt Deutschland damit im europäischen Länderranking den achten Platz. Mit einer Veränderungsrate von 1,8 % stiegen die … Arbeitskosten in Deutschland im Jahr 2014 etwas stärker als im europäischen Durchschnitt. In den Krisenländern stagnierten die …
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Creation and Adoption of Energy-related Innovations - the Main Facts
Arvanitis, Spyridon; Peneder, Michael; Rammer, Christian; … - 2016
One of the main goals of the "Energy Strategy 2050" in Switzerland is the exploitation of the existing energy efficiency potentials. The size of the efficiency potential strongly depends on the development and the adoption of energy-related innovations. The objective of this project is to...
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Income Comparisons among Neighbours and Life Satisfaction in East and West Germany
Knies, Gundi - 2010
A series of studies have suggested that changes in others' income may be perceived differently in post-transition and capitalist societies. This paper draws on the German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP) matched with micro-marketing indicators of population characteristics in very tightly drawn...
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Gender Differences in Subjective Well-Being in and out of Management Positions
Trzcinski, Eileen; Holst, Elke - 2010
This study used data from the German Socio-economic Panel to examine gender differences in the extent to which self-reported subjective well-being was associated with occupying a high-level managerial position in the labour market,compared with employment in nonleadership, non-high-level...
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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
What are the long-term effects of Communism on economically relevant notions such as social trust? To answer this question, we use the reunification of Germany as a natural experiment and study the post-reunification trajectory of convergence with regard to individuals' trust and risk, as well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600987
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How Important Is the Family? Evidence from Sibling Correlations in Permanent Earnings in the US, Germany and Denmark
Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2011
This paper is the first to analyze intergenerational economic mobility based on sibling correlations in permanent earnings in Germany and to provide a cross-country comparison of Germany, Denmark, and the US. The main findings are as follows: the importance of family and community background in...
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Measuring Individual Risk Attitudes in the Lab: Task or Ask? An Empirical Comparison
Lönnqvist, Jan-Erik; Verkasalo, Markku; Walkowitz, Gari; … - 2011
This paper compares two prominent empirical measures of individual risk attitudes - the Holt and Laury (2002) lottery-choice task and the multi-item questionnaire advocated by Dohmen, Falk, Huffman, Schupp, Sunde and Wagner (forthcoming) - with respect to (a) their within-subject stability over...
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The Double German Transformation: Changing Male Employment Patterns in East and West Germany
Simonson, Julia; Gordo, Laura Romeu; Kelle, Nadiya - 2011
Before the 90s, men's employment careers in East and West Germany were quite similar, despite their widely differing institutional settings. Before reunification, employment biographies were mainly dominated by full-time employment in both East and West. After 1989 the GDR was incorporated into...
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Lower and Upper Bounds of Unfair Inequality: Theory and Evidence for Germany and the US
Niehues, Judith; Peichl, Andreas - 2011
Previous estimates of unfair inequality of opportunity (IOp) are only lower bounds because of the unobservability of the full set of endowed circumstances beyond the sphere of individual responsibility. In this paper, we suggest a new estimator based on a fixed effects panel model which...
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Self-Employment and Geographical Mobility in Germany
Reuschke, Darja - 2011
Little is known about the individual location behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs. This paper investigates the geographical mobility behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs, as compared to employees, thereby shedding new light onto the place embeddedness of self-employment. It examines...
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