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Migration Background and Educational Tracking: Is there a Double Disadvantage for Second-Generation Immigrants?
Lüdemann, Elke; Schwerdt, Guido - CESifo - 2010
achievement tests and general intelligence. Second-generation immigrations are disproportionately affected by prevailing social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799737
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Demographics and Volatile Social Security Wealth: Political Risks of Benefit Rule Changes in Germany
Borgmann, Christoph; Heidler, Matthias - CESifo - 2003
In this paper we address the question how the generosity of the benefit rule of the German public pension system has changed during the past three decades and how this development can be explained by demographic changes. Firstly, we illustrate the political risk of benefit rule changes for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765890
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Labor Courts, Nomination Bias, and Unemployment in Germany
Berger, Helge; Neugart, Michael - CESifo - 2006
unemployment, even after controlling for the endogeneity of court activity. The results have potentially important policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765647
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Unemployment in Germany: Reasons and Remedies
Berthold, Norbert; Fehn, Rainer - CESifo - 2003
play an important role in explaining the lackluster German economic performance of which rising unemployment is only one …
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Central School Exit Exams and Labor-Market Outcomes
Piopiunik, Marc; Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2012
market and, on rigid labor markets, for unemployment. Exploiting variation in exit-exam systems across German states, we find … market, as well as with lower unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010691259
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The Lost Popularity Function: Are Unemployment and Inflation no longer Relevant for the Bahaviour of German Voters?
Kirchgässner, Gebhard - CESifo - 2009
Up to now there was a general conviction that increasing unemployment and inflation have a negative impact on the … the Schröder government. While the results for the former show the known pattern, neither unemployment nor inflation is … significant in the equations of the Schröder government, the latter has even the wrong sign. The missing impact of unemployment …
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