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Intensifying the Use of Benefit Sanctions : An Effective Tool to Shorten Welfare Receipt and Speed Up Transitions to Employment?

Boockmann, Bernhard - 2009

Benefit sanctions imposed on non-compliant welfare recipients are a new element in the German welfare system. In practice, the sanction policy and the application of sanctions vary considerably across the 439 welfare agencies. Based on combined administrative and survey data, these differences...

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The Immigrant-Native Wage Gap in Germany Revisited

Ingwersen, Kai - 2019

This study provides new evidence on the levels of economic integration experienced by foreigners and naturalised immigrants relative to native Germans from 1994 to 2015. We decompose the wage gap using the method for unconditional quantile regression models by employing a regression of the...

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The Changing Situation of Labor Market Entrants in Germany : A Long-Run Analysis of Wages and Occupational Patterns

Reinhold, Mario - 2016

similar trend in Germany. Based on comprehensive, long-run administrative data for the years 1975 to 2010, we use a set of … reveal similarities between Germany and the U.S. in terms of some declining fortunes of the young. However, whereas in the U ….S. college educated workers have been affected, the results indicate that in Germany the medium-skilled and low-skilled have been …

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New Evidence on the Effects of the Shortened School Duration in the German States : An Evaluation of Post-Secondary Education Decisions

Meyer, Tobias - 2015

Most German states have reformed university preparatory schooling during the last decade by reducing its duration from 13 to 12 years without changing the graduation requirements. In this paper, we use nationwide data on high school graduates and apply a difference-in-differences approach to...

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The Phantom of the Opera : Cultural Amenities, Human Capital, and Regional Economic Growth

Falck, Oliver - 2020

We analyze the extent to which endogenous cultural amenities affect the spatial equilibrium share of high-human-capital employees. To overcome endogeneity, we draw on a quasi-natural experiment in German history and exploit the exogenous spatial distribution of baroque opera houses built as a...

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Improving the Allocation of Spots in Child Care Facilities for Toddlers in Germany : A Mechanism Design Approach

Carlsson, Sissa - 2015

The undersupply of spots in German daycare facilities for toddlers challenges parents' possibilities to work. To ease the situation, the government implemented a new law entitling every child between ages one and three to daycare supervision for about four hours per day. Nevertheless, the...

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Did Tuition Fees in Germany Constrain Students' Budgets? New Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2014

Less than a decade ago, several German states introduced tuition fees for university education. Despite their comparatively low level, fees were perceived by the public to increase social injustice, and have been abolished. Whereas other studies have shown no effect on enrollment, we analyze the...

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Business Cycles and Start-Ups Across Industries : An Empirical Analysis of German Regions

Konon, Alexander - 2018

We analyze whether start-up rates in different industries systematically change with business cycle variables. Using a unique data set at the industry level, we mostly find correlations that are consistent with counter-cyclical influences of the business cycle on entries in both innovative and...

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Business Cycles, Unemployment and Entrepreneurial Entry : Evidence from Germany

Fritsch, Michael - 2014

what extent business cycles or unemployment levels influence entries into entrepreneurship. Our analysis for Germany …

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An Empirical Assessment of Workload and Migrants' Health in Germany

Ingwersen, Kai; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2021

years 2006, 2012 and 2018, our analysis takes a comprehensive set of work-related aspects into account, e.g., work tasks …

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