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Labour demand in Germany : an assessment of non-wage labour costs
Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael - 2003
The data indicate that non-wage labour costs in Germany have reached a record high in recent years. From 1972 to 2001 …, the ratio of non-wage labour costs to direct compensation in West German manufacturing industry rose from 55.6 per cent to … 81.2 per cent. The topic of non-wage labour costs is increasingly being discussed among and between the political parties …
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The open method of coordination (OMC) as an evolutionary learning process
Ania, Ana B.; Wagener, Andreas - 2009
We interpret the Open Method of Coordination (OMC), recently adopted by the EU as a mode of governance in the area of social policy and other fields, as an imitative learning dynamics of the type considered in evolutionary game theory. The best-practise feature and the iterative design of the...
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Tax competition, relative performance and policy imitation
Wagener, Andreas - 2009
Rather than about absolute payoffs, governments in fiscal competition often seem to care about their performance relative to other governments. Moreover, they often appear to mimic policies observed elsewhere. We study such behaviour in a tax competition game with mobile capital à la...
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Does school autonomy make sense everywhere? : panel estimates from PISA
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Link, Susanne; Woessmann, Ludger - 2011
Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went in opposite directions over the past decade and because prior evidence is inconclusive. We suggest that autonomy may be conducive to student achievement in well-developed...
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Weak markets, strong teachers : recession at career start and teacher effectiveness
Nagler, Markus; Piopiunik, Marc; West, Martin R. - 2015
How do alternative job opportunities affect teacher quality? We provide the first causal evidence on this question by exploiting business cycle conditions at career start as a source of exogenous variation in the outside options of potential teachers. Unlike prior research, we directly assess...
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No place like home? : graduate migration in Germany
Haussen, Tina; Übelmesser, Silke - 2015
We empirically analyze sub-national migration of graduates in Germany and its determinants. Based on a longitudinal, representative survey-based dataset of students who graduated in the academic year 2004/2005, we observe the transition to the labor market and previous and subsequent migration...
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Early retirement incentives and student achievement
Fitzpatrick, Maria D.; Lovenheim, Michael F. - 2013
Early retirement incentives (ERIs) are increasingly prevalent in education as districts seek to close budget gaps by replacing expensive experienced teachers with lower-cost newer teachers. Combined with the aging of the teacher workforce, these ERIs are likely to change the composition of...
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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....
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Government ideology and tuition fee policy : evidence from the German states
Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - 2013
In January 2005 the German Supreme Court permitted the state governments to charge tuition fees. By exploiting the natural experiment, we examine how government ideology influenced the introduction of tuition fees. The results show that rightwing governments were active in introducing tuition...
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Much ado about nothing? : the role of primary school catchment areas for ethnic school segregation ; evidence from a policy reform
Makles, Anna; Schneider, Kerstin - 2013
By the 2008/09 school year the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) abolished binding school catchment areas (SCAs) in all municipalities. The reform has been controversial and it was feared that school choice would increase ethnic segregation. Using data on all primary schools, we...
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