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Economic Well-being and Anti-Semitic, Xenophobic, and Racist Attitudes in Germany

Mocan, Naci; Raschke, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

xenophobic feelings towards foreigners in general, and against specific groups such as Italians and Turks. We also analyze racist …. Education, and having contact with foreigners mitigate racist, anti-Semitic and xenophobic feelings. People who live in states … for German males, and they are not fully driven by fears about foreigners taking away jobs. The results of the paper are …

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Remittances and Gender: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence

Holst, Elke; Schäfer, Andrea; Schrooten, Mechthild - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

be explained by the underlying transnational network contract. Second, remittances sent by foreigners and naturalized … reunification in the destination country and decreases remittances. Third, the structure of the existing social network in Germany …

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The Rise and Fall of Swiss Unemployment: Relative Demand Shocks, Wage Rigidities, and Temporary Immigrants

Puhani, Patrick A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

Switzerland, traditionally a ‘zero unemployment’ economy, has seen an unprecedented rise in joblessness in the 1990s although unemployment fell again to a rather low level after 1997. This paper tests whether Switzerland experienced a negative relative net demand shock against the low...

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Taxation and Internal Migration: Evidence from the Swiss Census Using Community-Level Variation in Income Tax Rates

Liebig, Thomas; Puhani, Patrick A.; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

revenue-increasing effect of a rise in tax rate. The migratory responses of foreigners and other age-education groups are even …

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Money Matters: Evidence from a Large-Scale Randomized Field Experiment with Vouchers for Adult Training

Messer, Dolores; Wolter, Stefan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper presents the results of a randomized experiment analyzing the use of vouchers for adult training. In 2006, 2,400 people were issued with a training voucher which they were entitled to use in payment for a training course of their choice. User behavior was compared with a control group...

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General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes over the Life-Cycle

Hanushek, Eric A.; Wößmann, Ludger; Zhang, Lei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test...

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The Long-term Earnings Consequences of General vs. Specific Training of the Unemployed

Stenberg, Anders; Westerlund, Olle - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Training programs for the unemployed typically involve teaching specific skills in demand amongst employers. In 1997, Swedish unemployed could also choose general training at the upper secondary school level. Despite the dominance of programs offering specific training, long-term relative...

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Effects of Adult Education Vouchers on the Labor Market: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Schwerdt, Guido; Messer, Dolores; Wößmann, Ludger; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Lifelong learning is often promoted in ageing societies, but little is known about its returns or governments' ability to advance it. This paper evaluates the effects of a large-scale randomized field experiment issuing vouchers for adult education in Switzerland. We find no significant average...

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Taking a Second Chance: Entrepreneurial Restarters in Germany

Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Folklore has it that the comparatively low proportion of self-employed in Germany is in part due to a habit that might …

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How Rigid are Nominal Wages? Evidence and Implications for Germany

Knoppik, Christoph; Beissinger, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

Many of the recent attempts to find evidence of downward nominal wage rigidity in micro data have suffered from a number of problems, including composition bias and the effects of measurement error. In order to avoid these problems we explicitly model the determinants of wage changes and the...

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