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Based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study, this article analyses the effects of workplace training in Germany on subjective job security. Using fixed-effects models, this article tests whether workplace training has positive effects on perceived job security, and if so, whether the returns are of a short- or long-term nature. The results confirm a positive effect of workplace training ...
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Journal of European Social Policy
24 (2014), 4, S. 337-350
| Bettina Kohlrausch, Anika Rasner
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Two literatures exist concerning cross-border merger activity's impact on domestic wages: one focusing on positive spillover effects; the other focusing on negative bargaining effects.Motivated by scarce theoretical scholarship spanning these literatures, we nest both mechanisms in a single conceptual framework. Considering the separate phenomena of inward and outward cross-border merger activity, ...
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Journal of International Business Studies
45 (2014), 4, 450-470
| Joseph A. Clougherty, Klaus Gugler, Lars Sörgard, Florian W. Szücs
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We study the effect of a merger in a dynamic high-technology industry—the videogame market—which is characterized by the frequent introduction of new products. To assess the impact of the merger between two large specialist retailers in the United Kingdom—Game Group PLC and Games Station Limited—we perform a difference-in-differences analysis comparing the price evolution of the merging parties with ...
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Journal of Competition Law & Economics
10 (2014), Iss. 4, S. 933-958
| Luca Aguzzoni, Elena Argentesi, Paolo Buccirossi, Lorenzo Ciari, Tomaso Duso, Massimo Tognoni, Christiana Vitale
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We suggest using information from the state register of personal cars as an alternative indicator of economic inequality in countries with a large share of shadow economy. We illustrate our approach using the Latvian pool of personal cars. Our main finding is that the extent of household economic inequality in Latvia is much larger than officially assumed. According to Eurostat, the officially published ...
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The Review of Income and Wealth
60 (2014), No. 4, 948-966
| Boriss Siliverstovs, Konstantin A. Kholodilin, Vyacheslav Dombrovsky
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The first minimum wage in Germany was introduced in 1997 for blue-collar workers in sub-sectors of the construction industry. In the setting of a natural experiment, blue-collar workers in neighboring 4-digit industries and white-collar workers are used as control groups for differences-in-differences-in-differences estimation based on linked employer-employee data. Estimation results reveal a sizable ...
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Empirical Economics
46 (2014), 4, 1429-1446
| Pia Rattenhuber
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Based on a large, representative German household panel, we investigate to what extent the personality of individuals influences the entry decision into and the exit decision from self-employment. We reveal that some traits, such as openness to experience, extraversion, and risk tolerance affect entry, but different ones, such as agreeableness or different parameter values of risk tolerance, affect ...
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Small Business Economics
42 (2014), 4, S. 787-814
| Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos
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This paper studies the relationships between annual and subannual inequality and mobility during the course of the year. We apply an exact decomposition framework as outlined in Wodon and Yitzhaki (Econ Bull 4:1–8, 2003), and in Yitzhaki and Wodon (Research on Economic Inequality 12:179–199, 2004). Earnings records of pension insurants in Germany serve as the database. The long time horizon of our ...
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Journal of Economic Inequality
12 (2014), Iss. 3, S. 393-409
| Carsten Schröder, Yolanda Golan, Shlomo Yitzhaki
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We analyze the effect of the receipt of remittances on the education and health of children in Kyrgyzstan during a volatile period of their recent history, 2005–2009. The country experienced revolution in 2005 and the global financial crisis beginning in 2008. Both events impact human capital investment, and the changes vary by region of the country. We use fixed effects estimation and fixed effects, ...
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Journal of Comparative Economics
42 (2014), 3, S. 770-785
| Antje Kröger, Kathryn H. Anderson
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We propose that a comprehensive understanding of age differences in affective responses to emotional situations requires the distinction of 2 components of affect dynamics: reactivity, the deviation from a person’s baseline, and recovery, the return to this baseline. The present study demonstrates the utility of this approach with a focus on age differences inresponses of negative affect and heart ...
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Psychology and Aging
29 (2014), 3, S. 563-576
| Cornelia Wrzus, Viktor Müller, Gert G. Wagner, Ulman Lindenberger, Michaela Riediger
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We investigate how prenatal economic fluctuations affected birth weight in Argentina during the period from January 2000 to December 2005 and document its procyclicality. We find evidence that the birth weight of children born to low-educated (less than high school) mothers is sensitive to macroeconomic fluctuations during both the first and third trimesters of pregnancy, while those of high-educated ...
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The Review of Economics and Statistics
96 (2014), 3, S. 550-562
| Carlos Bozzoli, Climent Quintana-Domeque