Da gute Bildung die Chance auf wirtschaftlichen Erfolg und gesellschaftliche Teilhabe eröffnet, ist Chancengleichheit im Bildungssystem ein zentraler Ansatzpunkt, um soziale Ungleichheiten zu verringern. Das ifo Bildungsbarometer 2019, unsere jährliche repräsentative Meinungsumfrage von über...

This paper estimates the effect of innovation on employment at the firm level. Our uniquely long innovation panel data set of German manufacturing firms covers more than 20 years and allows us to use various innovation measures. We can distinguish between product and process innovations as well...

Building on a new data set which is combined from national micro-data bases, we highlight differences in the structure of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all immigrants to the OECD world. Looking at immigrants by source...

For a long time, migration has been subject to intensive economic research. Nevertheless, empirical evidence regarding the determinants of migration still appears to be incomplete. In this paper, we analyze the effects of socio-economic and institutional determinants, especially labor-market...

This paper analyses the effects of education signals for Ethnic Germans and Germans without a migration background (Native Germans"). We base our analysis on a sorting model with productivity enhancing effects of education. We compare whether the signalling value differs between the migrants and...

This paper presents a micro data approach to the identification of credit crunches. Using a survey among German firms which regularly queries the firms' assessment of the current willingness of banks to extend credit we estimate the probability of a restrictive credit supply policy by time...

The German Income Tax Reform 2000, which announced a reduction in income tax rates to be implemented in a series of three stages, was welcomed by the public as a step towards unleashing lurking growth potentials. Nonetheless, in the course of the year 2001 a dispute arose, centering around the...

Mit der Freiburger Zwei-Flanken-Strategie bringen Prof. Dr. Bernd Raffelhüschen und Jörg Schoder, Universität Freiburg, ein Konzept zur Wohneigentumsförderung in die Diskussion ein, das der doppelten Funktion des Wohneigentums, Alters- und Generationenvorsorge, und der Notwendigkeit einer...