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Can Child Care Policy Encourage Employment and Fertility? Evidence from a Structural Model

Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2009

In this paper we develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal feedback effects between the two outcomes. We identify the effect of financial incentives on the employment and fertility decision by exploiting variation in the tax and transfer...

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Do Tuition Fees Affect the Mobility of University Applicants? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Dwenger, Nadja; Storck, Johanna; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2011

Germany, we estimate the effect of tuition fees on the probability of applying for a university in the home state. We find a …

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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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Preferences for Childcare Policies : Theory and Evidence

Borck, Rainald; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2009

We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer private provision to either pure public or mixed provision. If public provision redistributes from...

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Financial Student Aid and Enrollment into Higher Education : New Evidence from Germany

Steiner, Viktor; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2009

We estimate the elasticity of enrollment into higher education with respect to the amount of means tested student aid (BAfoeG) provided by the federal government using the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP). Potential student aid is derived on the basis of a detailed taxbenefit microsimulation...

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Effective Taxation of Top Incomes in Germany, 1992-2002

Bach, Stefan - 2014

We analyze the taxation of top personal incomes in Germany on the basis of an integrated data file of individual tax …

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Would a Legal Minimum Wage Reduce Poverty? A Microsimulation Study for Germany

Müller, Kai-Uwe - 2008

an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of the introduction of a nationwide legal … and had no negative employment effects. The ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is mainly due to the existing …

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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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