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Taking a cross-national comparative perspective, this study analyses differences in individual determinants of the low-wage risk across institutional settings. It builds on previous research that dealt with the impact of labour market reform measures on the distribution of labour market risks in advanced economies. It is widely held that such reforms have a particularly adverse effect on labour market ...
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European Sociological Review
30 (2014), 5, S. 549-561
| Marco Giesselmann
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People typically want to feel good. At times, however, they seek to maintain or enhance negative affect or to dampen positive affect. The prevalence of such contrahedonic motivation has been related to simultaneous experiences of positive and negative (i.e., mixed) affect. We investigated the role that implicit mental representations of affect valence may play in this regard in a study with N = 400 ...
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Emotion
14 (2014), 5, S. 950-961
| Michaela Riediger, Gert G. Wagner, Cornelia Wrzus
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Early literacy and numeracy activities in family and preschool are considered important for promoting children’s early literacy and numeracy skills. However, little research exists, especially in Germany, on the frequency of such activities in different contexts. The current study identified patterns of literacy and numeracy activities in preschools and their relation to structural preschool characteristics ...
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Research Papers in Education
29 (2014), 5, S. 577-597
| Simone Lehrl, Wilfried Smidt, Christiane Grosse, David Richter
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The restructuring of the allocation of governmental competencies in France has increased the importance of subnational governments by transferring additional tasks. We analyse the efficiency of public spending on the intermediate government level for the 96 départements in metropolitan France in 2008. Spending efficiency is measured using Data Envelopment Analysis. Results indicate significant room ...
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Local Government Studies
40 (2014), 5, S. 766-790
| Stefan Seifert, Maria Nieswand
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Studies analysing renewable energy (RE) market development usually investigate electricity capacity or investment. Characteristics, roles and determinants of trade with RE system components remain blurred. Policies are important in promoting RE utilization and innovation. Yet, their effect on determining exports remains ambiguous. The Porter hypothesis and the lead-market literature argue that environmental ...
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Applied Economics
46 (2014), 5, S. 503-526
| Felix Groba
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OBJECTIVE: We examined the extent to which retrospective proxy reports of well-being mirror participant self-reports at 12-24 months before death and how proxy reports of well-being change over the last year of life. We also explored the role of sociodemographic, cognitive, and health factors of both participants and proxies in moderating such associations.Method.We used retrospective proxy ratings ...
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The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences
69 (2014), 5, S. 695-709
| Frank J. Infurna, Denis Gerstorf, Nilam Ram, Jürgen Schupp, Mirjam A. G. Sprangers, Gert G. Wagner
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A Neoclassical production function is used to analyse the effects of knowledge spillovers via entrepreneurship on economic performance of 337 German districts. To take the spatial dependence structure of the data into account, a spatial Durbin model was estimated. The importance of the choice of the appropriate weight matrix is highlighted. Positive knowledge spillover effects via entrepreneurship ...
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Regional Studies
48 (2014), 5, S. 866-882
| Katharina Pijnenburg, Konstantin A. Kholodilin
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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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The benefits of dual apprenticeship programs are usually discussed in the context of reducing structural unemployment rates, especially among the young. Related to this, the long-run benefits of dual apprenticeship programs are extensively analyzed in the literature. However, empirical evidence regarding the short-run effects of the business cycle on the number of apprenticeships is scarce. In this ...
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Journal of Labor Research
35 (2014), Iss. 4, 412-422
| Guido Baldi, Imke Brüggemann-Borck, Thore Schlaak