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The Separation and Reunification of Germany : Rethinking a Natural Experiment Interpretation of the Enduring Effects of Communism
Becker, Sascha O. - 2020
East and West Germany were far from being randomly selected treatment and control groups. First, the later border is … occupying forces affected East and West differently. Third, a selective fifth of the population fled from East to West Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839354
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Tax Morale After the Reunification of Germany : Results from a Quasi-Natural Experiment
Feld, Lars P.; Torgler, Benno - 2021
This paper provides a comparison of tax morale between inhabitants of East and West Germany in its post … compared to cross-country studies. Our findings show higher tax morale in East than in West Germany. However, in only 9 years … the East. We suggest that this convergence in tax morale between East and West Germany, despite efforts of the federal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317223
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Social Mobility in Germany
Dodin, Majed; Findeisen, Sebastian; Henkel, Lukas; … - 2021
We characterize intergenerational mobility in Germany using census data on educational attainment and parental income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218289
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266077
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Can Job Search Assistance Improve the Labour Market Integration for Refugees? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Battisti, Michele - 2019
refugees in Germany. The treatment group received job-matching support: an NGO identified suitable vacancies and sent the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892280
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The Effect of Regulatory Harmonization on Cross-border Labor Migration: Evidence from the Accounting Profession
Bloomfield, Matthew J.; Brüggemann, Ulf; Christensen, … - 2015
The paper examines whether international regulatory harmonization increases cross-border labor migration. To study this question, we analyze European Union (EU) initiatives that harmonized accounting and auditing standards. Regulatory harmonization should reduce economic mobility barriers,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431204
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Pay and Unemployment Determinants of Migration Flows in the European Union
Afonso, António; Alves, José; Beck, Krzysztof - 2022
We analyze the migration drivers within the European Union countries. For a set of 23 EU countries over the 1995-2019 period, we use Bayesian Model Averaging and quantile regression to assess notably the relevance of unemployment and earnings. We find that the existence of a common border...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290041
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Pay and Unemployment Determinants of Migration Flows in the European Union
Afonso, António; Alves, José; Beck, Krzysztof - 2022
We analyze the migration drivers within the European Union countries. For a set of 23 EU countries over the 1995-2019 period, we use Bayesian Model Averaging and quantile regression to assess notably the relevance of unemployment and earnings. We find that the existence of a common border...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014240478
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Managing migration through conflicting policies : an option-theory perspective
Moretto, Michele; Vergalli, Sergio - 2009
Recent European legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand, the trend of recent legislation points to the increasing closure of frontiers (OECD 1999, 2001,2004), trying to limit the immigrants' stock. On the other hand, there is an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266040
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Integration, mobility, and human capital formation
Haupt, Alexander; Uebelmesser, Silke - 2010
In this note, we show that labour market integration can be a double-edged sword. In the presence of local human capital externalities, integration and the ensuing agglomeration of skilled labour can cause a decline in human capital and the total wage sum (net of education costs). In particular,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274986