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      <title>Are the self-employed really jacks-of-all-trades? Testing the assumptions and implications of Lazear's theory of entrepreneurship with German data</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/55037</link>
      <description>Title: Are the self-employed really jacks-of-all-trades? Testing the assumptions and implications of Lazear's theory of entrepreneurship with German data
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: Using a large representative German data set and various concepts of self-employment, this paper tests the 'jack-of-all-trades' view of entrepreneurship by Lazear (AER 2004). Consistent with its theoretical assumptions we find that self-employed individuals perform more tasks and that their work requires more skills than that of paid employees. In contrast to Lazear's assumptions, however, self-employed individuals do not just need more basic but also more expert skills than employees. Our results also provide only very limited support for the idea that human capital investment patterns differ between those who become self-employed and those ending up in paid employment.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The effect of housework on wages in Germany: No impact at all</title>
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      <description>Title: The effect of housework on wages in Germany: No impact at all
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Hirsch, Boris; Konietzko, Thorsten
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: This paper presents evidence on the impact of hours spent on housework activities on individuals' wages for Germany using data from both the German Socio-Economic Panel and the German Time Use Survey. In contrast to most of the international literature, we find no negative effect of housework on wages. This holds for men and women, for married and single individuals, and for part-time and full-time workers both in West and East Germany. Our insights do not change when we distinguish different types of housework activities or address the endogeneity of housework in our wage regressions by using instrumental variables estimators.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The effect of housework on wages in Germany: No impact at all</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/52386</link>
      <description>Title: The effect of housework on wages in Germany: No impact at all
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Hirsch, Boris; Konietzko, Thorsten
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: This paper presents evidence on the impact of hours spent on housework activities on individuals' wages for Germany using data from both the German Socio-Economic Panel and the German Time Use Survey. In contrast to most of the international literature, we find no negative effect of housework on wages. This holds for men and women, for married and single individuals, and for part-time and full-time workers both in West and East Germany. Our insights do not change when we distinguish different types of housework activities or address the endogeneity of housework in our wage regressions by using instrumental variables estimators.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Let's take bargaining models seriously: The decline in union power in Germany, 1992 - 2009</title>
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      <description>Title: Let's take bargaining models seriously: The decline in union power in Germany, 1992 - 2009
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Hirsch, Boris; Schnabel, Claus
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: Building on the right-to-manage model of collective bargaining, this paper tries to infer union power from the observed results in wage setting. It derives a time-varying indicator of union strength and confronts it with annual data for Germany. The results show that union power was relatively stable in the 1990s but fell substantially (by almost one-third) from 1999 to 2007. Two-thirds of this fall in union power follow from the reduction in the labour share relative to the capital share whereas changes in the gap between the net wage and the income when unemployed account for the remaining third.</description>
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