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As a consequence of the rapid growth of temporary agency employment in Germany, the debate on the poor working …
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Why did substantial parts of Europe abandon the institutionalized churches around 1900? Empirical studies using modern data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of secularization. We construct a unique panel dataset of...
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Angesichts der gegenwärtigen Rezession hat die Politik in Deutschland die Leistungen der Kurzarbeit ausgeweitet, indem … Unternehmens verantwortlich sind, behindert das Instrument eine nachhaltige Arbeitsmarktpolitik. Zur Vermeidung von …
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Danish reform. We separately identify the effect of aid from that of other observed and unobserved variables such as parental … income. We exploit the combination of a kinked aid scheme and a reform of the student aid scheme to identify the effect of …
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In this paper we analyse the effects of changes in the institutional design of the educational system on school attainment. In particular, we test whether alternative reforms have increased the average educational attainment of the population and whether various deciles of the education...
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We evaluate the effect of perhaps the largest exogenous decline in a state's incarceration rate in U.S. history on … local crime rates. We assess the effects of a recent reform in California that caused a sharp and permanent reduction in the … state's incarceration rate. We exploit the large variation across California counties in the effect of this reform on county …
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aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard … observed in market economies. Early in transition, faster reform is associated with larger contributions from reallocation, but …
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We construct objective measures of privatization, internal and external liberalization reform efforts, across countries … studies and find that the macroeconomic effects of reform (when measured objectively) tend to be larger and more precisely …
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The effects of a recent Swedish child-care fee reform are compared with those of an alternative reform, increased child … benefits. The fee reform implied considerably decreased fees and was intended to increase both labor supply among parents and … aversion, the alternative reform would have been preferable to the implemented fee reform. …
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We posit that historical resource scarcities played a role in the emergence of gender norms inimical to women that persist to this day. This thesis is supported by our finding that nations’ historical resource endowments, as measured by the historical availability of arable land, are...
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