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Bad Bank(s) and Recapitalization of the Banking Sector

Schaefer, Dorothea - 2009

With banking sectors worldwide still suffering from the effects of the financial crisis, public discussion of plans to place toxic assets in one or more bad banks has gained steam in recent weeks. The following paper presents a plan how governments can efficiently relieve ailing banks from toxic...

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Publications : German Economic Research Institutes on Track

Ketzler, Rolf - 2008

The request for a strengthening of academic research at the German economic research institutes by the German Science Council more than a decade ago was founded on the crucial insight that sound policy advice - the traditional task of the institutes - can only be guaranteed in the long term if...

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Naturalization Proclivities, Ethnicity and Integration

Constant, Amelie F. - 2008

This paper studies the determinants of naturalization among Turkish and ex-Yugoslav immigrants in Germany …, but not to those educated in Germany. We find that the degree of integration in German society has a differential effect … on citizenship acquisition. While a longer residence in Germany has a negative influence on actual or future …

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Cultural Integration in Europe

Constant, Amelie F.; Nottmeyer, Olga; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010

This chapter investigates the integration processes of immigrants in Germany by comparing certain immigrant groups to … Germany …

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Ethnicity, Job Search and Labor Market Reintegration of the Unemployed

Constant, Amelie F.; Kahanec, Martin; Rinne, Ulf; … - 2010

in Germany. Our data include a large number of migration variables, allowing us to adapt a recently developed concept of … Germany. Our results indicate that separated migrants have a relatively slow reintegration into the labor market. We explain …

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Work and Money : Payoffs by Ethnic Identity and Gender

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

immigrants in Germany show that ethnic identity is important for the decision to work and significantly and differentially …

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Google Econometrics and Unemployment Forecasting

Askitas, Nikos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2012

The current economic crisis requires fast information to predict economic behavior early, which is difficult at times of structural changes. This paper suggests an innovative new method of using data on internet activity for that purpose. It demonstrates strong correlations between keyword...

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Economic Preferences and Attitudes of the Unemployed : Are Natives and Second Generation Migrants Alike?

Constant, Amelie F.; Krause-Pilatus, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf - 2011

natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between …

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