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Occupational choice and social contacts across regions

Bauernschuster, Stefan (contributor); … - 2008

This paper tests the importance of social contacts on entrepreneurship. To measure differences in the interconnectedness of social contacts, we compare rural and agglomerated areas. A smaller community size in rural areas generates greater network closure. Agents' neighborhoods are more likely...

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Relaxed dismissal protection : effects on the hiring and firing behaviour of small firms

Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2009

to react quickly to new challenges. This paper uses the latest change in dismissal protection legislation in Germany as a …

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From politics to the family : how sex-role attitudes keep on diverging in reunified Germany

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Rainer, Helmut - 2010

this background, we empirically investigate gender-role attitudes in reunified Germany. Our results show that East Germans …

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The shadows of the past : how implicit institutions influence entrepreneurship

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Gold, Robert; … - 2009

influence on risk attitudes and opportunity recognition. We conduct a natural experiment based on Germany’s recent history and … compare individuals born and raised in the former socialist East Germany (GDR) with their West Germany (FRG) counterparts. Our … analysis confirms the expected difference in values between individuals from East and West Germany and also shows that these …

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Why are educated and risk-loving persons more mobile across regions

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; … - 2012

Why are better educated and more risk-friendly persons more mobile across regions? To answer this question, we use micro data on internal migrants from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 2000-2006 and merge this information with a unique proxy for region-pair-specific cultural distances...

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Children of a (policy) revolution : the introduction of universal child care and its effect on fertility

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut - 2014

What role does affordable and widely available public child care play for fertility? We exploit a major German reform generating large temporal and spatial variation in child care coverage for children under the age of three. Our precise and robust estimates on birth register data reveal that...

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