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Social Norms and Mothers’ Labor Market Attachment – The Medium-run Effects of Parental Benefits

Kluve, Jochen; Schmitz, Sebastian - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2014

Increasing mothers’ labor supply is a key policy challenge in many OECD countries. Germany recently introduced a generous parental benefit that allows for strong consumption smoothing after childbirth and, by taking into account opportunity costs of childbearing, incentivizes working women to...

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Actuarial Adjustments, Retirement Behaviour and Worker Heterogeneity

Giesecke, Matthias - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2014

retirement. The analysis is conducted on administrative data from social security records and on survey data in a comparative … average retirement is postponed by five months due to financial incentives via actuarial adjustments. However, this response … is about 40 per cent lower for manual workers compared to non-manual workers which indicates that their retirement income …

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Do Guns Displace Books? – The Impact of Compulsory Military Service on Educational Attainment

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; … - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2011

Compulsory military service typically drafts young men when they are at the height of their learning ability. Thus, it can be expected to depress the demand for higher education since skill atrophy and the delayed entry into the civilian labor market reduce the returns to human-capital...

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The Long Shadow of Port Infrastructure in Germany – Cause or Consequence of Regional Prosperity?

Breidenbach, Philipp; Mitze, Timo - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2013

Transport infrastructure is viewed as an important determinant of regional growth and development. While this prediction especially holds from a theoretical perspective based on endogenous growth theories, from an empirical perspective it is not easy to verify this causal link, though. The main...

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Analyzing Zero Returns to Education in Germany – Heterogeneous Eff ects and Skill Formation

Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Schmitz, Hendrik - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2013

We analyze the effect of education on wages using German Socio-Economic Panel data and regional variation in mandatory years of schooling and the supply of schools. This allows us to estimate more than one local average treatment effect and heterogeneous effects for different groups of...

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The Eff ect of Saving Subsidies on Household Saving – Evidence from Germanys

Corneo, Giacomo; Keese, Matthias; Schröder, Carsten - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2010

Since 2002 the German government seeks to stimulate private retirement savings by means of special allowances and tax …

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The Impact of Foreign Acquisitions on the Investors‘ R&D Activities – Firm-level Evidence

Stiebale, Joel - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2010

This paper provides empirical evidence on the relationship between cross-border acquisitions and innovation activities at the fi rm level. In contrast to previous studies that analyze the eff ects on innovation in target fi rms, this paper investigates the eff ects on the investing fi rms. For...

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The Impact of FDI on Innovation in Target Firms

Stiebale, Joel; Reize, Frank - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2008

This paper contributes to the ongoing debate on the welfare effects of foreign direct investment by investigating the effects of cross-border mergers and acquisitions on innovation activities in target firms. The empirical analysis is based on survey and ownership data for a large sample of...

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Network Dependency in Migration Flows – A Space-time Analysis for Germany since Re-unification

Mitze, Timo - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2010

The contribution of this paper is to analyse the role of network interdependencies in a dynamic panel data model for German internal migration fl ows since re-unification. So far, a capacious account of spatial patterns in German migration data is still missing in the empirical literature. In...

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Testing the Neoclassical Migration Model: Overall and Age-Group Specific Results for German Regions

Mitze, Timo; Reinkowski, Janina - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2010

This paper tests the empirical validity of the neoclassical migration model in predicting German internal migration flows. We estimate static and dynamic migration functions for 97 Spatial Planning Regions between 1996 and 2006 using key labor market signals including income and unemployment...

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