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Geographic Clustering and Productivity: An Instrumental Variable Approach for Classical Composers
Borowiecki, Karol Jan - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2011
It is difficult to estimate the impact of geographic clustering on productivity because of endogeneity issues. I use … between 1750 and 1899. I find that geographic clustering strongly impacts the productivity of the clustering individuals …
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Are Sociocultural Factors Important for Studying a Science University Major?
Osikominu, Aderonke; Grossmann, Volker; Osterfeld, Marius - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014
next technical niversity) and earnings across majors as well as for selection bias. Our findings suggest that male students …
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The dynamics of welfare entry and exit among natives and immigrants
Wunder, Christoph; Riphahn, Regina T. - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2011
This paper uses panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to analyze welfare entry and exit among natives and immigrants after a substantial reform of the welfare system (``Hartz reform''). Using results from dynamic multinomial logit models, we calculate transition matrices between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957298
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Welfare transitions before and after reforms of the German welfare system
Wunder, Christoph; Riphahn, Regina - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013
We study state dependence in the German welfare system and compare transition patterns before and after recent reforms of the welfare system (Hartz Reforms). Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we apply dynamic multinomial logit estimators and find that welfare transitions have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010958111
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Does better pre-migration performance accelerate immigrants' wage assimilation?
Jahn, Elke; Hirsch, Boris; Toomet, Ott; Hochfellner, Daniela - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013
include a standardized measure of immigrants' pre-migration wage based on occupation, industry, tenure, qualification, and the … partial. A 10% higher pre-migration wage translates into a 1.6% higher wage in Germany when also controlling for educational … market. We also find that wage assimilation is significantly accelerated for immigrants with a higher pre-migration wage. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010958012
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Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation: An Analysis for Germany
Kramer, Anica; Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K. - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013
This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010958154
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Should I stay or should I go? - The Effect of Performance Pay on the Retention of Apprenticeship Graduates
Rinawi, Miriam; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013
This paper investigates how training firms retain their apprenticeship graduates if they are embedded in labor markets without the frictions that the new training literature considers to be essential for investments in general human capital. We hypothesize that performance pay schemes are an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010958121
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Self-Selection into Export Markets by Business Services Firms: Evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom
Wagner, Joachim; Temouri, Yama; Vogel, Alexander - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2011
and productivity hold in the years before the export start, which indicates self-selection into exporting of more …
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Complexity-induced Status Quo Effects in Discrete Choice Experiments for Environmental Valutation
Oehlmann, Malte; Weller, Priska; Meyerhoff, Jürgen - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014
In this paper we investigate the influence of choice task complexity on the propensity to choose the status quo (SQ) alternative in discrete choice experiments. Task complexity is characterized in terms of the design dimensionality systematically varying the number of choice sets, alternatives,...
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Optimal Unemployment Insurance and Welfare Benefits in a Life-cycle model of Family Labor Supply and Savings
Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014
We specify and estimate a dynamic structural life-cycle model of labor supply, retirement and savings decisions of single-adult and couple households. Drawing on our model, we study the interplay between family labor supply and public insurance mechanisms. By including family labor supply, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011164201