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The German vocational education and training system : its institutional configuration, strengths, and challenges
Solga, Heike; Protsch, Paula; Ebner, Christian; … - 2014
Germany is widely known for its high-quality vocational education and training (VET) system. The two key features of that system are (a) firm-based training programs accompanied by a schoolbased component (of one to two days per week), in which apprentices acquire upper secondary general...
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Language integration of labour migrants in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden from a historical perspective
Höhne, Jutta - 2013
Einwanderungsländern (Österreich, Belgien, Frankreich, Deutschland, Niederlande und Schweden) zwischen 1965 und Mitte der 1990er Jahre. Die … Deutschland befassten sich mit der sprachlichen Integration von Migration bereits lange bevor von einer staatlichen … Integrationspolitik die Rede sein konnte. Die Niederlande, Belgien und Österreich hingegen ignorierten mögliche Verständigungsprobleme von …
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Social capital and the spread of Covid-19 : insights from European countries
Bartscher, Alina Kristin; Seitz, Sebastian; Slotwinski, … - 2020
We explore the role of social capital in the spread of the recent Covid-19 pan­demic in independent analyses for Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Swe­den, Switzerland and the UK. We exploit within-country variation in social capital and Covid-19 cases to show that high-social-capital...
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The impact of monetary instruments on shock absorption in EU-countries
Müller, Claudia; Buscher, Herbert S. - 1999
The main characteristic of the implementation of the European Monetary Union (EMU) is the transition from various national currencies to the Euro, the common European currency. A final fixing of the individual bilateral exchange rates of all European countries involved in the Monetary Union...
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Wie lässt sich die gesetzliche Pflegeversicherung mit Hilfe personengebundener Budgets reformieren?
Arntz, Melanie - 2003
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Are interest rates responsible for unemployment in the eighties? : A Bayesian analysis of cointegrated relationship with a regime shift
De la Croix, David; Lubrano, Michel - 1994
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Finding jobs in private households online : a comparative analysis of digitally-mediated care and domestic service work in Australia, Germany, Denmark, Spain and the United Kingdom
Molitor, Friederike; Munnes, Stefan; Wójcik, Piotr; … - 2021
We study the working conditions of care and domestic workers who offer their services on digital platforms in Australia, Germany, Denmark, Spain and the United Kingdom. By drawing on survey data collected on a digital platform in 2019, we examine workers' demographics and their experiences with...
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Local economic impacts of wind power deployment in Denmark
Gavard, Claire; Göbel, Jonas; Schoch, Niklas - 2022 - This version: October 21, 2022
An argument sometimes used to support renewable energy is that it may contribute to job creation. On the other hand, these technologies often face local opposition. On the case of Denmark, the country with the longest experience with wind power, the authors examine whether the installation of...
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Do refugees impact crime? : causal evidence from large-scale refugee immigration to Germany
Lange, Martin; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2023
Does large-scale refugee immigration affect crime rates in receiving countries? We address this question based on the large and unexpected refugee inflow to Germany that peaked in 2015-2016. Arriving refugees were dispersed across the country based on a binding dispersal policy, yet we show that...
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Social assistance and minimum income benefits : a comparison between five European countries
Berkel, Kim van; Knol, Jellien; Vuuren, Daniël van - 2023
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