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Migration Background and Educational Tracking : Is There a Double Disadvantage for Second-Generation Immigrants?

Lüdemann, Elke - 2010

Research on immigrants' educational disadvantages largely focuses on differences in student achievement tests. Exploiting data from the German PIRLS extension, we find that second-generation immigrants face additional disadvantages with respect to grades and teacher recommendations for secondary...

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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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Why Go to France or Germany, if You Could as Well Go to the UK or the US? Selective Features of Immigration to Four Major OECD Countries

Geis, Wido - 2008

of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all …

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Genetic Distance and International Migrant Selection

Krieger, Tim - 2015

This paper looks at the effect of the relatedness of two countries, measured by their genetic distance, on educational migrant selection. We analyze bilateral country-level education-specific migration stocks from 85 sending countries to the 15 main destination countries in 2000 and show that...

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