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Should Local Public Employment Services Be Merged with the Local Social Benefit Administrations?

Holzner, Christian - 2011

The German Federal government has allowed some regions (Approved Local Providers) to be solely responsible for the care of long-term unemployed. The remaining regions had to form Joint Local Agencies, where the local social benefit administrations work together with the local public employment...

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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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Minimum Wage Incidence : The Case for Germany

Knabe, Andreas - 2008

Using data from the 2006 wave of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper analyzes how a minimum wage affects employment, wage inequality, public expenditures, and aggregate income in the low-wage sector. It is shown that a statutory minimum wage of EUR 7.50 per hour would cost...

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Exporting and Labor Demand : Micro-Level Evidence from Germany

Lichter, Andreas - 2014

It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms' exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel...

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Does Short-Time Work Save Jobs? A Business Cycle Analysis

Balleer, Almut - 2014

component appears to be completely ineffective. In a case study for Germany, we use the rich data available to combine micro …

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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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Identifying the Effects of Place-Based Policies - Causal Evidence from Germany

Dettmann, Eva - 2016

The German government provides discretionary investment grants to structurally weak regions to reduce regional disparities. We use a regression discontinuity design that exploits an exogenous discrete jump in the probability of receiving investment grants, to identify the causal effects of the...

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