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Conspicuous Consumption and Communism : Evidence from East and West Germany

Friehe, Tim - 2012

use the separation of Germany into the communist GDR and the democratic FRG and its reunification in 1990 as a natural … experiment. Relying on household data that are representative for Germany, our empirical results strongly indicate that … conspicuous consumption is relatively more important in East Germany. Importantly, a significant gap in conspicuous consumption …

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Tear Down this Wall : On the Persistence of Borders in Trade

Nitsch, Volker - 2009

Why do borders still matter for economic activity? The reunification of Germany in 1990 provides a unique natural … to trade between East Germany and West Germany were eliminated completely within a very short period of time. The …

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Don't Raise the Retirement Age! An Experiment on Opposition to Pension Reforms and East-West Differences in Germany

Scheubel, Beatrice - 2009

For policy reforms to increase a society's welfare, reliable information on people's prefer-ences and expectations is crucial. Representative opinion polls, often involving simplified questions about the complex topics under debate, are an important source of information for both policy-makers...

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Work Incentives? Ex Post Effects of Unemployment Insurance Sanctions - Evidence from West Germany

Hofmann, Barbara - 2008

recipients to stay unemployed. Empirical evidence about the effects of UI sanctions in Germany is sparse. Using administrative … data we investigate the effects of sanctions on the reemployment probability in West Germany for individuals who entered UI …

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Apprenticeship, Vocational Training and Early Labor Market Outcomes - In East and West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T. - 2015

differences for different types of vocational training, minor differences between East and West Germany and males and females, and …

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Intergenerational Transmission of Unemployment -- Evidence for German Sons

Mäder, Miriam; Müller, Steffen; Riphahn, Regina T.; … - 2021

This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what...

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He's a Chip Off the Old Block - The Persistence of Occupational Choices Across Generations

Knoll, Bodo; Riedel, Nadine; Schlenker, Eva - 2021

The purpose of this paper is to assess intergenerational occupational mobility in Germany. Using data from the …

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Early Child Care and Child Development : For Whom it Works and Why

Felfe, Christina; Lalive, Rafael - 2021

Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to benefit from such expansions? We address this question by adopting a marginal treatment effects framework. We study the West German setting where high quality center-based care...

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Taxing Childcare : Effects on Family Labor Supply and Children

Gathmann, Christina; Sass, Björn - 2021

Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce...

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A Different Look at Lenin's Legacy : Trust, Risk, Fairness and Cooperativeness in the Two Germanies

Heineck, Guido; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2021

question, we use the reunification of Germany as a natural experiment and study the post-reunification trajectory of …

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