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Short term living conditions and long term prospects of immigrant children in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2000

Der im Ausland geborene Teil der in Deutschland lebenden Bevölkerung besteht aus Ausländern und Aussiedlern, die aus … osteuropäischen Ländern nach Deutschland emigriert sind. Während die erste Gruppe mit Problemen konfrontiert ist, die aus dem typisch … deutschen Pass. Etwa die Hälfte der Immigranten, die seit 1984 nach Deutschland kamen, sind der Gruppe der Aussiedler …

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Schooling and Citizenship: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reforms

Siedler, Thomas - 2007

This paper examines whether schooling has a positive impact on individual's political interest, voting turnout, democratic values, political involvement and political group membership, using the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS). Between 1949 and 1969 the number of compulsory years of...

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Does Parental Unemployment Cause Right-Wing Extremism?

Siedler, Thomas - 2007

Recent years have witnessed a rise in right-wing extremism among German youth and young adults. This paper investigates the extent to which the experience of parental unemployment during childhood affects young people's far right-wing attitudes and xenophobia. Estimates from three German data...

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O Brother, Where Art Thou? The Effects of Having a Sibling on Geographic Mobility and Labor Market Outcomes

Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - 2006

In most industrialized countries, more people than ever are having to cope with the burden of caring for elderly parents. This paper formulates a model to explain how parental care responsibilities and family structure interact in affecting children?s mobility characteristics. A key insight we...

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Childhood Family Structure and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence for Germany

Francesconi, Marco; Jenkins, Stephen P.; Siedler, Thomas - 2006

We analyse the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common unobserved determinants of family structure and...

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To claim or not to claim: estimating non-take-up of social assistance in Germany and the role of measurement error

Frick, Joachim R.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2007

Using representative micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the year 2002, we analyse non-take-up behaviour of Social Assistance (SA) in Germany. According to our simulation as much as 67 percent of the eligible population did not claim SA in that year which is slightly...

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Telling the truth may not pay off: an empirical study of centralised university admissions in Germany

Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea - 2007

We investigate the matching algorithm used by the German central clearinghouse for university admissions (ZVS) in medicine and related subjects. This mechanism consists of three procedures based on final grades from school (Abiturbestenverfahren, Auswahlverfahren der Hochschulen) and on waiting...

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Die kurzfristigen Steuereffekte der Thesaurierungsbegünstigung für Personenunternehmen: eine mikrofundierte Analyse

Broer, Michael; Dwenger, Nadja - 2008

With the 2008 reform of business taxation (Unternehmensteuerreform 2008) a preferential treatment of retained earnings for non-incorporated companies was introduced: Earnings may be retained at a preferential tax rate (29.8%) and will be subjected to supplementary tax (26.4%) when they will be...

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Success in the university admission process in Germany: regional provenance matters

Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja - 2008

School education in Germany is under the responsibility of the federal states and as a consequence average grades differ widely across regions. Since school leavers apply nationwide for admission to university, regional provenance may thus matter a lot for the success probability in the...

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Effective profit taxation and the elasticity of the corporate income tax base: evidence from German corporate tax return data

Dwenger, Nadja; Steiner, Viktor - 2008

We estimate the elasticity of corporate taxable income with respect to the effective corporate tax rate on the basis of a pseudo-panel constructed from corporate tax return micro data for the period 1998-2001, a period which saw the introduction of a major corporate tax reform in Germany....

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