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Immigration and Heterogeneous Labor in Western Germany: A Labor Market Classification Based on Nonparametric Estimation

Puhani, Patrick A.; Frölich, Markus - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an...

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Wage Convergence and Inequality after Unification: (East) Germany in Transition

Gernandt, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

This paper investigates the wage convergence between East German workers and their West German counterparts after reunification. Our research is based on a comparison of three groups of workers defined as stayers, migrants and commuters to West Germany, who lived in East Germany in 1989, with...

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EU enlargement and immigration

Kraus, Margit; Schwager, Robert - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000

This paper assesses the consequences of EU enlargement for East West migration. In the theoretical part, we identify … several factors in addition to the reduction of moving costs by which EU membership influences migration. Specifically, EU … increased current migration. Additionally, casual evidence from the 1980s EU South enlargement is examined. Since then no …

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Knowing what not to do: Financial literacy and consumer credit choices

Dick, Christian D.; Jaroszek, Lena M. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

Based on a rich panel of household data, we investigate the determinants of the use of consumer credit in Germany. We find that the usage frequency of an easily accessible, but relatively expensive source of consumer credit decreases with financial literacy but is unrelated to household income....

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How creative are you? An experimental study on self-selection in a competitive incentive scheme for creative performance

Bradler, Christiane - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2015

Economic theory suggests that performance pay may serve as an effective screening device to attract productive agents. The existing evidence on the self-selection of agents is largely limited to job tasks where performance is driven by routine, well-defined procedures. This study presents...

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Impatience among preschool children and their mothers

Kosse, Fabian; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

Using experimental data of children and their mothers, this paper explores the intergenerational relationship of impatience. The child's impatience stems from a delay of gratification experiment. Mother's impatience has been assessed by a choice task where the mothers faced trade-offs between a...

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The long-term impact of matching and rebate subsidies when public goods are impure: Field experimental evidence from the carbon offsetting market

Kesternich, Martin; Löschel, Andreas; Römer, Daniel - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

In this paper, we investigate both short- and long-term impacts of financial stimuli on public goods provision when contributions are tied to individual harm-related behavior. We conduct a large-scaled field experiment to examine voluntary contributions to a carbon offsetting program during the...

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Direct and indirect effects of weather experiences on life satisfaction: Which role for climate change expectations?

Osberghaus, Daniel; Kühling, Jan - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

This paper deals with the effect of (i) damage experience from extreme weather events and (ii) expectations concerning future climate change on subjective wellbeing (SWB). We use data of a large representative survey amongst German households. The effect of experienced weather events on SWB of...

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Intergenerational Poverty Dynamics in Poland: Family Background and Children's Educational Attainment During Transition

Lauer, Charlotte; Beblo, Miriam - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

children´s educational attainment during the transition process of the 1990s. The relationship between family background and …

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Poland on the dole: unemployment benefits, training, and long-term unemployment during transition

Puhani, Patrick A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1996

We analyse the duration of unemployment spells in Poland using data from the Polish Labour Force Survey of August 1994. The effects on the duration of unemployment of important socio-economic and demographic characteristics are explored besides the impacts of the unemployment benefit system and...

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