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Naturalization and labor market performance of immigrants in Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Saif, Salwan - 2018

Naturalization may be a relevant policy instrument affecting immigrant integration in host-country labor markets. We study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and exploit a reform of naturalization rules in an instrumental...

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Happiness as a guide to labor market policy : happiness is key to a productive economy, and a job is key to individual happiness

Ritzen, Jozef M. M. - 2015

the rate of unemployment in society, have a negative effect on happiness. In contrast, employment protection and …

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Institutionalized bailouts and fiscal policy : the consequences of soft budget constraints

Fink, Alexander; Stratmann, Thomas - 2009

States have soft budget constraints when they can expect a bailout by the federal government in the event of a financial crisis. This gives rise to incentives for unsound state fiscal policy. We test whether states with softer budget constraints have higher debt and deficits, receive more...

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Fundamental determinants of school efficiency and equity : german states as a microcosm for OECD countries

Woessmann, Ludger (contributor) - 2007

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Total instructional time exposure and student achievement : an extreme bounds analysis based on German state-level variation

Mandel, Philipp; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2011

Using pooled data on instructional time and student performance by subject, our study finds evidence for the school inputs-student achievement relationship for German states. This finding is robust both to the inclusion of state fixed effects and in an extensive extreme bounds analysis. It...

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Democratic participation and the size of regions : an empirical study using data on German counties

Seitz, Helmut (contributor) - 2008

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Teacher quality and incentives theoretical and empirical effects of standards on teacher quality : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, May 2004

Jürges, Hendrik; Richter, Wolfram F.; Schneider, Kerstin - 2004

Applying the theory of yardstick competition to the schooling system, we show that it is optimal to have central tests of student achievement and to engage in benchmarking because it raises the quality of teaching. This is true even if teachers' pay (defined in monetary terms) is not performance...

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Debt brakes in the German states : governments' rhetoric and actions

Potrafke, Niklas; Riem, Marina; Schinke, Christoph - 2016

In 2009 a new law on German debt brakes was passed: state governments are not allowed to run structural deficits after 2020. Consolidation strategies initiated today influence if a state can comply with the debt brake in 2020. We describe to what extent government ideology predicts if state...

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Forecasting GDP at the regional level with many predictors

Lehmann, Robert; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2012

In this paper, we assess the accuracy of macroeconomic forecasts at the regional level using a unique data set at quarterly frequency. We forecast gross domestic product (GDP) for two German states (Free State of Saxony and Baden-Württemberg) and Eastern Germany. We overcome the problem of a...

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Ethnic identity and the employment outcomes of immigrants : evidence from France

Delaporte, Isaure - 2019

ethnic identity on the immigrants’ employment outcomes. Using rich survey data from France and relying on a polychoric … identities. The paper investigates the impact of the ethnic identity measures on the employment outcomes of immigrants in France …. The results show that having multiple identities improves the employment outcomes of the migrants and contribute to help …

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