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Education and industrialization in Prussia : a reassessment

Edwards, Jeremy S. S. - 2013

This paper investigates Becker, Hornung and Woessmann's recent claim that education had an important causal effect on Prussian industrialization and finds it unwarranted. The econometric analysis on which this claim is based suffers from severe problems, notably the omission of relevant...

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Trade and tasks : an exploration over three decades in Germany

Becker, Sascha O.; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2014

This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data for merchandize and services. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the...

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Does Parental Education Affect Fertility? Evidence from Pre-Demographic Transition Prussia

Becker, Sascha O. - 2011

While women's employment opportunities, relative wages, and the child quantity‐quality trade‐off have been studied as factors underlying historical fertility limitation, the role of parental education has received little attention. We combine Prussian county data from three censuses - 1816,...

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Does parental education affect fertility? : evidence from pre-demographic transition Prussia

Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - 2011

While women's employment opportunities, relative wages, and the child quantity-quality trade-off have been studied as factors underlying historical fertility limitation, the role of parental education has received little attention. We combine Prussian county data from three censuses - 1816,...

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Persecution and escape : professional networks and high-skilled emigration from Nazi Germany

Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun W.; … - 2021

We study the role of professional networks in facilitating the escape of persecuted academics from Nazi Germany. From 1933, the Nazi regime started to dismiss academics of Jewish origin from their positions. The timing of dismissals created individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of...

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Trade and Tasks : An Exploration Over Three Decades in Germany

Becker, Sascha O. - 2015

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Does Parental Education Affect Fertility? Evidence from Pre-Demographic Transition Prussia

Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2011

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Trade and Tasks: An Exploration over Three Decades in Germany

Becker, Sascha O.; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - CESifo - 2014

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011099759

Endogenous product versus process innovation and a firm's propensity to export

Becker, Sascha O. (contributor); Egger, Peter (contributor) - 2007

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Endogenous Product Versus Process Innovation and a Firm's Propensity to Export

Becker, Sascha O. - 2015

at the firm level. Product innovation is a key factor for successful market entry in models of creative destruction and … Schumpeterian growth. Process innovation helps securing a firm's market position given the characteristics of its product supply …. Both modes of innovation are expected to raise a firm's propensity to export. According to new trade theory, we conjecture …

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