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Persecution and escape
Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun W.; … - 2023
We study the role of professional networks in facilitating emigration of Jewish academics dismissed from their positions by the Nazi government. We use individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of dismissals to estimate causal effects. Academics with more ties to early émigrés...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014476804
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Persecution and escape
Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun W.; … - 2023
We study the role of professional networks in facilitating emigration of Jewish academics dismissed from their positions by the Nazi government. We use individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of dismissals to estimate causal eects. Academics with more ties to early émigrés...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014481039
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Bombs, broadcasts and resistance: Allied intervention and domestic opposition to the Nazi regime during World War II
Adena, Maja; Enikolopov, Ruben; Petrova, Maria; Voth, … - 2021
Can bombs and broadcasts instigate resistance against a foreign regime? In this paper, we examine the canonical case of bombing designed to undermine enemy morale-the Allied bomber offensive against Germany during World War II. Our evidence shows that air power and the airwaves indeed undermined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518044
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Social security strategies and redistributive effects in European social transfer systems
Kraus, Margit - 2000
systems. It is argued that the various European systems produce different patterns of redistribution that may be explained by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428345
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Radio and the rise of the Nazis in prewar Germany
Adena, Maja; Enikolopov, Ruben; Petrova, Maria; … - 2015 - August 2013, revised April 2015
-Semitic acts and denunciations of Jews to authorities by ordinary Germans. The effect of anti-Semitic propaganda varied depending … Zustimmung der Bevölkerung bei der Denunziation von Juden und zu anderen Formen des offenen Antisemitismus bei. Dennoch war der …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010512027
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Voting behaviour and public employment in Nazi Germany
Maurer, Stephan E. - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010504072
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Radio and the rise of the Nazis in prewar Germany
Adena, Maja; Enikolopov, Ruben; Petrova, Maria; … - 2013
power, radio propaganda helped the Nazis to enroll new party members and encouraged denunciations of Jews and other open … Denunziation von Juden und zu anderen Formen des offenen Antisemitismus bei. Dennoch war der Einfluss der NS-Propaganda nicht …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010188729
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Distributional effects of a minimum wage in a welfare state : the case of Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2013
A popular argument for a federal minimum wage is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We examine this assertion for Germany, a welfare state with a relative generous means-tested social minimum and high marginal tax rates. Our analysis is based on a microsimulation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010234179
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Three worlds of welfare capitalism of four?
Castles, Francis G.; Mitchell, Deborah - 1990
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000833206
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Welfare policy in the presence of unionised labour and internationally mobile firms
Rocha-Akis, Silvia; Schöb, Ronnie - 2009
' domestic outside options. Only if the latter become sufficiently attractive will redistribution induce some offshoring, and it … for the generosity of the welfare state below which redistribution becomes less instead of more distortive. -- offshoring … ; import competition ; wage bargaining ; oligopoly ; redistribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003931419