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The paper studies opinions and attitudes towards immigrants and minorities and their interactions with other barriers … acknowledged as the single most important integration barrier; low education and self-confidence as well as cultural differences …
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The social and labor market integration of ethnic minorities in the EU is still a major political, societal and economic challenge. Based on evidence presented in Kahanec and Zimmermann (2011), this policy paper proposes an agenda for diversity and minority integration in the European labor...
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that ethnic minorities do want to change their situation, especially in terms of employment, education, housing and … attitudes towards them. Insufficient knowledge of the official language, insufficient education, discriminatory attitudes and …
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This paper examines social agglomeration externalities. Using survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, I … by positive agglomeration externalities in other areas. This equilibrium hypothesis cannot be rejected. …
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This paper examines whether schooling has a positive impact on individual's political interest, voting turnout, democratic values, political involvement and political group membership, using the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS). Between 1949 and 1969 the number of compulsory years of...
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Exploiting Tangshan 1976 - the deadliest earthquake in the 20th century - as a source of exogenous variation, we estimate the long-run effect of a historical shock on contemporary socio-economic outcomes. Cohorts born after the earthquake were not only larger, but exhibit lower school completion...
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This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to … immigrants, Turks are twice as likely to choose self-employment as any other immigrant group. The age-earnings profiles of self … the self-employed Greeks, Italians, Spaniards, ex- Yugoslavs, Polish or other East Europeans, including those immigrants …
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structure partisanship. The same social logic underpins partisan choice among West Germans, East Germans, and immigrants, though …
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The ad valorem versus unit taxes debate has traditionally emphasized tax yield. For this criterion, ad valorem taxes outperform unit taxes in terms of welfare for a wide range of imperfect competition settings, including Dixit-Stiglitz monopolistic competition. Yet, in a number of policy fields,...
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Before the World War I, the urban rental housing market in Germany could be described as a free and competitive market. The government hardly interfered in the relationships between the landlords and ten- ants. The rents were set freely. During the World War I, the market was hit by several...
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