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A Reputation Economy: Results from an Empirical Survey on Academic Data Sharing

Fecher, Benedikt; Friesike, Sascha; Hebing, Marcel; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015

Academic data sharing is a way for researchers to collaborate and thereby meet the needs of an increasingly complex research landscape. It enables researchers to verify results and to pursuit new research questions with “old” data. It is therefore not surprising that data sharing is...

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Rates of Return and Early Retirement Disincentives: Evidence from a German Pension Reform

Lüthen, Holger - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014

To counteract the financial pressure emerging in aging societies, statutory pay-as-you-go pension schemes are undergoing fundamental reforms in many Western countries. Starting with cohort 1937, Germany introduced permanent pension deductions for early retirement. This paper examines the...

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How Do Tourists React to Political Violence?: An Empirical Analysis of Tourism in Egypt

Fielding, David; Shortland, Anja - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

This paper uses a detailed database of political violence in Egypt to study European and US tourists' attitudes towards … political violence and counter-violence on tourist flows to Egypt in the 1990s. We find that both US and EU tourists respond …. There is also evidence of tourism in Egypt being affected by the Israeli / Palestinian conflict, with arrivals of tourists …

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Distributional and Behavioral Effects of the Gender Wage Gap

Gallego-Granados, Patricia; Geyer, Johannes - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015

The gender wage gap is a persistent labor market phenomenon. Most research focuses on the determinants of these wage differences. We contribute to this literature by exploring a different research question: if wages of women are systematically lower than male wages, what are the distributional...

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Long-Term Effects of Unpaid Overtime

Pannenberg, Markus - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002

Why do people work unpaid overtime? We show that remarkable long-term labor earnings gains are associated with unpaid overtime in West Germany. A descriptive analysis suggests that over a 10-year period workers with unpaid overtime experience on average at least a 10 percentage points higher...

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Social Custom, Free-Riders, and Trade Union Membership in Germany and Great Britain

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 1998

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Employment Effects of a Sectoral Minimum Wage in Germany: Semi-Parametric Estimations from Cross-Sectional Data

Müller, Kai-Uwe - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

In this paper employment effects of a sectoral minimum wage in the German construction sector are estimated from a single cross-sectional wage distribution using parametric and semi-parametric models. Parametric functional form assumptions seem too restrictive and lead to implausible results. We...

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Estimating Heterogeneous Returns to Education in Germany via Conditional Heteroskedasticity

Saniter, Nils - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

In this paper I investigate the causal returns to education for different educational groups in Germany by employing a new method by Klein and Vella (2010) that bases identification on the presence of conditional heteroskedasticity. Compared to IV methods, key advantages of this approach are...

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Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of immigrants' ethnic persistence and assimilation....

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Are There Any Class Size Effects on Early Career Earnings in West Germany?

Baumgartner, Hans J. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

The paper analyses the effect of class size, which stands proxy for school quality, on early career earnings. Using confidential district level information from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), it is demonstrated that class size has no discernible effect on early career earnings. This...

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