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Peer Effects in European Primary Schools : Evidence from Pirls

Ammermueller, Andreas; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2018

We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...

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Does Innovation Stimulate Employment? A Firm-Level Analysis Using Comparable Micro-Data from Four European Countries

Harrison, Rupert; Jaumandreu, Jordi; Mairesse, Jacques; … - 2009

innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated using comparable firm-level data from France, Germany, Spain and the …

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Short-Run Fertility Effects of Parental Leave Benefits : Evidence from a Structural Model

Stichnoth, Holger - 2014

Based on a structural model of fertility and female labour force supply with unobserved heterogeneity and state … generous earnings-related transfer. The model predicts a short-term fertility effect of about 4%, which is consistent with … recent quasi-experimental evidence. The fertility effect is strongest for first births and increases with income. We use the …

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Exploring the Puzzle of Human Reproduction : Register Data based Evidence from France and Germany

Lipowski, Cäcilia - 2020

integration. This study uses large scale administrative data from France and Germany to analyse and directly compare fertility … in fertility decisions, and for a positive income effect for females with high earnings. Females in Germany adapt their … fertility behaviour more strongly in response to economic incentives than their counterpartsin France. This is explained by …

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Cultural Influences on the Fertility Behaviour of First- and Second-Generation Immigrants in Germany

Stichnoth, Holger; Yeter, Mustafa - 2013

Based on a 1% sample of the German population, we study how fertility rates in the country of origin — a proxy for … cultural imprint — influence the fertility outcomes of first- and second-generation female immigrants. We use both total … fertility rates in the year of migration and a new measure of completed cohort fertility rates in the countries of origin as …

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Local Governments in the Wake of Demographic Change : Efficiency and Economies of Scale in German Municipalities

Geys, Benny; Heinemann, Friedrich; Kalb, Alexander - 2011

German municipalities are expected to suffer from (often significant) population losses in the upcoming decades. We assess these local governments' vulnerability to the fiscal consequences of this demographic decline through two means (using a sample of 1021 municipalities in the state of...

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Marital Sorting, Inequality and the Role of Female Labor Supply : Evidence from East and West Germany

Pestel, Nico - 2015

This paper examines to what extent marital sorting affects cross-sectional earnings inequality in Germany over the past three decades, while explicitly taking into account labor supply choices. Using rich micro data, the observed distribution of couples' earnings is compared to a counterfactual...

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Heterogeneous Labour Markets in a Microsimulation-Age Model : Application to Welfare Reform in Germany

Boeters, Stefan - 2009

Labour market reforms that are designed to stimulate labour supply at the lower end of the wage distribution can never be precisely restricted to affect only the target group. Spillovers to and feedback from other segments of the labour market are unavoidable and may counteract the direct...

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Distributional and Behavioural Effects of the German Labour Market Reform

Clauss, Markus - 2009

We estimate the effects of the reform of the German Unemployment Insurance that replaced the wage related Unemployment Assistance with an income maintenance program and stronger means testing. We model the tax-benefit system and use the Socio-Economic Panel. We estimate a discrete labour supply...

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Intensifying the Use of Benefit Sanctions – An Effective Tool to Shorten Welfare Receipt and Speed Up Transitions Employment?

Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas; Boockmann, Bernhard - 2009

During the last two decades many countries have reformed their welfare systems with the aim of shifting labor market policies from passive benefit receipt towards increased job search and work requirements. As part of this shift benefit sanctions are increasingly being used in the activation...

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