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Economic-social interaction in China
Lindbeck, Assar (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003630516
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Low skill but high volatility?
Buch, Claudia M.; Pierdzioch, Christian - 2009
Globalization may impose a double-burden on low-skilled workers. On the one hand, the relative supply of low … test the predictions of the model. Our results show that greater financial globalization and development increases the … dampening impact. -- labor-market volatility ; skill levels ; financial globalization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850520
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Performance rating and yardstick competition in social service provision : presented at TAPES Conference on Fiscal Federalism, May 2004
Revelli, Federico - 2004
This paper investigates whether national evaluation of decentralised government performance tends, by lessening local information spill-overs, to reduce the scope for local performance comparisons and consequently to lower the extent of spatial auto-correlation among local government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450696
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The fall in German unemployment : a flow analysis
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Launov, Andrey; Robin, Jean-Marc - 2020
In this paper we investigate the recent fall in unemployment, and the rise in part-time work and labour market participation amongst prime-aged Germans. We show that unemployment fell because the Hartz reforms induced a large fraction of the long-term unemployed to deregister as jobseekers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012404545
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Migration and cultural change
Rapoport, Hillel; Sardoschau, Sulin; Silve, Arthur - 2020
We examine both theoretically and empirically how migration affects cultural change in home and host countries. Our theoretical model integrates various compositional and cultural transmission mechanisms of migration-based cultural change for which it delivers distinctive testable predictions on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270567
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Identity, beliefs, and political conflict
Gennaioli, Nicola; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2019 - This version: July 2019
globalization or cultural changes may induce voters to switch identities, dampening their demand for redistribution and exacerbating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029139
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Does distance matter? : tuition fees and enrollment of first-year students at German public universities
Bruckmeier, Kerstin; Fischer, Georg-Benedikt; Wigger, … - 2013
We use the recent introduction of tuition fees at public universities in seven of the sixteen German states to identify the effects of tuition fees on university enrollment of first-year students at German public universities. Our study differs from previous research in two important ways....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009748365
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How to measure research efficiency in higher education? : research grants vs. publication output
Gralka, Sabine; Wohlrabe, Klaus; Bornmann, Lutz - 2018
An ongoing debate in the literature on efficiency of higher education institutions concerns the indicator for research output in the empirical analysis. While several studies chose to use the number of publications, others rely on the overall amount of research grants. The present study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011853185
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Globalization, fertility and marital behavior in a lowest-low fertility setting
Giuntella, Osea; Rotunno, Lorenzo; Stella, Luca - 2022
Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we analyze the effects of exposure to globalization on … the fertility and marital behavior in Germany, until recently a lowest-low fertility setting. We find that exposure to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013202383
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The role of caseworkers in unemployment insurance : evidence from unplanned absences
Schiprowski, Amelie - 2020
Caseworkers are the main human resources used to provide social services. This paper asks if, and how much, caseworkers matter for the outcomes of unemployed individuals. Using large-scale administrative data, I exploit exogenous variation in unplanned absences among Swiss UI caseworkers. I find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012199842