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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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Identifying the Determinants of Attitudes towards Immigrants - A Structural Cross-Country Analysis

Fertig, Michael; Brenner, Jan - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2006

Utilizing subjective data to infer on fundamental issues of individual opinion is associated with severe conceptual and methodological problems.This paper addresses these problems and investigates the attitudes towards immigrants within a cross-country framework. To this end, we utilize data...

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Tobacco and Alcohol: Complements or Substitutes? - A Statistical Guinea Pig Approach

Tauchmann, Harald; Göhlmann, Silja; Requate, Till; … - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2006

The question of whether two drugs – namely alcohol and tobacco – are used as complements or substitutes is of crucial interest if side-effects of anti-drug policies are considered. Numerous papers have empirically addressed this issue by estimating demand systems for alcohol and tobacco and...

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Evaluating Rural Electrification Projects - Methodological Approaches

Peters, Jörg - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009

In recent years, the international community has expanded efforts in programme evaluation to improve the accountability of development projects. This paper presents approaches to implementing state-of-the-art evaluations in rural electrification projects, taking into account specific challenges...

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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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