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It is generally agreed that the funding base for German universities is inadequate and perhaps the time has come for serious consideration of the imposition of non-trivial tuition charges. Against this background, this paper compares conventional and income contingent loans for financing tuition...
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The Federal Republic of Germany had only just recovered from the shock of the oil crisis when the stoppage of US uranium deliveries came as a forceful reminder of the dependence of its energy sector upon supplies from abroad. Fears have been voiced that the nuclear power stations may one day be...
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regions specialized in import-competing industries, both in manufacturing and beyond. Regions specialized in export …-regional variation in initial industry structures and use trade flows of other high-income countries as instruments for regional import … and export exposure. We find that the rise of "the East" in the world economy caused substantial job losses in German …
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This paper documents the relationship between firm survival and three types of international trade activities - exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods, that...
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In an evaluation of a job-training program, the influence of the program on the individual earnings capacity is important, because it reflects the program effect on human capital. Estimating these effects is complicated because earnings are observed for employed individuals only, and employment...
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exports, however, declined throughout the seventies. What are the factors influencing German export performance? What is the …
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The influence of the export trade on the economic development since 1974 shows how greatly economic activities in the …
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