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Taxing Childcare: Effects on Family Labor Supply and Children
Gathmann, Christina; Sass, Björn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce...
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The Interdependence of R&D Activity and Debt Financing of Young Firms
Fryges, Helmut; Kohn, Karsten; Ullrich, Katrin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We investigate the interdependence of debt financing and R&D activities of young firms. Using micro-level data of the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel, our estimation results show that firm characteristics are more important than personal characteristics of the founders for explaining young firms'...
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Returns to Citizenship? Evidence from Germany's Recent Immigration Reforms
Gathmann, Christina; Keller, Nicolas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
major immigration reforms in Germany, a country with a relatively weak record of immigrant assimilation. For identification … after eight years of residency in Germany, while adults faced a 15-year residency requirement. Since 2000, all immigrants … performance. Based on the eligibility rules, we find few returns of citizenship for men, but substantial returns for women …
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Exports and Profitability: First Evidence for German Manufacturing Firms
Fryges, Helmut; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It …
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Centralized vs. Decentralized Wage Formation: The Role of Firms' Production Technology
Hirsch, Boris; Merkl, Christian; Müller, Steffen; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
setting due to labor cost and straitjacket effects. As firms in Germany are allowed to choose their wage formation regime, we … test these two hypotheses with representative establishment data for West Germany. We find that establishments with …
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The KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel: Design and Research Potential
Fryges, Helmut; Gottschalk, Sandra; Kohn, Karsten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
So far, there has been no data set which observes firm formations in Germany not only on a cross-sectional basis using … Bankengruppe and Creditreform set up a panel study of newly founded firms in Germany: the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel. In each of the …
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How General Is Human Capital? A Task-Based Approach
Gathmann, Christina; Schönberg, Uta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper studies how portable skill accumulated in the labor market are. Using rich data on tasks performed in occupations, we propose the concept of task-specific human capital to measure the transferability of skills empirically. Our results on occupational mobility and wages show that labor...
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