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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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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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Town twinning and German city growth

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Oumer, Abdella - 2014

After World War II, town twinning became popular, notably in Germany. This was mainly a reaction to the war experience …

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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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The strategic bombing of German cities during World War II and its impact on city growth

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Schramm, Marc - 2002

process. Our main finding is that city growth in western Germany did not follow a random walk, while city growth in eastern … Germany did follow a random walk. Different post-war economic systems are most likely responsible for this outcome. …

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When labor disputes bring cities to a standstill : the impact of public transit strikes on traffic, accidents, air pollution, and health

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut - 2015

effects of public transit strikes on urban populations in Germany. Due to higher traffic volumes and longer travel times …

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The effect of child care on family structure : theory and evidence

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Borck, Rainald - 2012

data from Germany, we also present empirical evidence which is consistent with this finding. -- marriage ; divorce ; single …

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The impact of continuous training on a firm's innovations

Bauernschuster, Stefan (contributor); … - 2008

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A century of shocks : the evolution of the German city size distribution 1925 - 1999

Bosker, E. Maarten; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2006

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The empirical relevance of the new economic geography : testing for a spatial wage structure in Germany

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Schramm, Marc - 2000

-unification Germany. We find support for a spatial wage structure for German city-district wages, and hence indirectly for the relevance … of a new economic geography model for Germany. We also find that demand linkages in Germany are strongly localised and … that the old border still matters to the extent that economic interactions between western and eastern Germany are still …

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