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Was Germany ever united?: evidence from intra- and international trade 1885 - 1933

Wolf, Nikolaus - 2008

When did Germany become economically integrated? Within the framework of a gravity model, based on a new data set of … about 40,000 observations on trade flows within and across the borders of Germany over the period 1885-1933, I explore the … internal fragmentation resulted from cultural heterogeneity, from administrative borders within Germany, and from geographical …

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Dialects, cultural Identity, and economic exchange

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - 2010

We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...

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Migration background and educational tracking: Is there a double disadvantage for second-generation immigrants?

Lüdemann, Elke; Schwerdt, Guido - 2010

Research on immigrants' educational disadvantages largely focuses on differences in student achievement tests. Exploiting data from the German PIRLS extension, we find that second-generation immigrants face additional disadvantages with respect to grades and teacher recommendations for secondary...

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Does size matter? The impact of changes in household structure on income distribution in Germany

Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Schneider, Hilmar - 2010

Income inequality in Germany has been continuously increasing during the past 20 years. In general, this is understood …

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Legislative malapportionment and the politicization of Germany's intergovernmental transfer system

Pitlik, Hans; Schneider, Friedrich G.; Strotmann, Harald - 2005

distribution of fiscal transfers in Germany's intergovernmental transfer system over the period 1970-2002. It can be shown that …

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Long memory in German energy price indices

Barros, Carlos Pestana; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - 2012

This study examines the long-memory properties of German energy price indices (specifically, import and export prices, as well as producer and consumer prices) for hard coal, lignite, mineral oil and natural gas adopting a fractional integration modelling framework. The analysis is undertaken...

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Central school exit exams and labor-market outcomes

Piopiunik, Marc; Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2012

Many countries use centralized exit exams as a governance devise of the school system. While abundant evidence suggests positive effects of central exams on achievement tests, previous research on university-bound students shows no effects on subsequent earnings. We suggest that labor-market...

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Taxes and the financial structure of German inward FDI

Ramb, Fred; Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 2004

tax rate of the German affiliate. From our study of a panel of more than 8,000 non-financial affiliates in Germany, we …

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Evaluating the German inventory cycle : using data from the Ifo business survey

Knetsch, Thomas A. - 2004

Inventory fluctuations are an important phenomenon in business cycles. However, the preliminary data on inventory investment as published in the German national accounts are tremendously prone to revision and therefore ill-equipped to diagnose the current stance of the inventory cycle. The Ifo...

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Drifting together or falling apart? : The empirics of regional economic growth in post-unification Germany

Colavecchio, Roberta; Curran, Declan; Funke, Michael - 2005

The objective of this paper is to address the question of convergence across German districts in the first decade after German unification by drawing out and emphasising some stylised facts of regional per capita income dynamics. We achieve this by employing non-parametric techniques which focus...

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