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A gift is not always a gift : gift exchange in a voucher experiment

Becker, Sascha O.; Messer, Dolores; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2011

Different from traditional gift exchange experiments, we study a field experiment where a random subsample of participants in the Swiss Labor Force Survey was sent vouchers to be used in adult training courses. Importantly for our purposes, actual voucher redemption can be traced. This gives the...

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Introducing time-to-educate in a job search model

Becker, Sascha O. (contributor) - 2005

Transition patterns from school to work differ considerably across OECD countries. Some countries exhibit high youth unemployment rates, which can be considered an indicator of the difficulty facing young people trying to integrate into the labor market. At the same time, education is a...

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How low business tax rates attract multinational headquarters : municipality-level evidence from Germany

Becker, Sascha O.; Egger, Peter; Merlo, Valeria - 2009

,000 municipalities in Germany to analyze the sensitivity of the location decisions of foreign MNEs with respect to business tax rates …

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

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

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Ordoliberalism, pragmatism and the Eurozone crisis : how the German tradition shaped economic policy in Europe

Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A.; Nientiedt, Daniel - 2015 - This version: May 18, 2015

extent this contention holds and to what extent Germany pragmatically responded to different crisis phenomena. A proper …

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Sustainability of German fiscal policy and public debt : historical and time series evidence for the period 1850-2010

Burret, Heiko T.; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2013

default. Due to a multitude of large scale events in its past, Germany is far from being an exception: In fact, Germany … Germany's public finances against the standard theoretical background using a unique database, retrieved from multiple sources … historical perception of Germany as the poster child of European public finance. Given these corresponding breaks in time series …

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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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Panel cointegration tests on the fiscal sustainability of German Laender

Burret, Heiko T.; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2014

newly compiled database covering the years 1950 - 2011. Unlike previous studies on Germany, we analyze fiscal sustainability …

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Fiscal sustainability of the German Laender : time series evidence

Burret, Heiko T.; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2014

Germany using an unprecedentedly comprehensive fiscal dataset for the time period from 1950 to 2011 for West German Laender …

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Margins of multinational labor substitution

Muendler, Marc-Andreas (contributor); … - 2006

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