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The long-term costs of government surveillance : insights from stasi spying in East Germany
Lichter, Andreas; Löffler, Max; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2019 - This version: August 2019
case of the Stasi in East Germany. Exploiting regional variation in the number of spies and administrative features of the … institutional trust in post-reunification Germany. We also find substantial and long-lasting economic effects of Stasi surveillance …
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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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The legacy of state socialism on attitudes toward immigration
Lange, Martin - 2021
division and reunification of Germany, I estimate the influence of state socialism on attitudes toward immigration. Drawing on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012623314
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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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The fall and rebound of average establishment size in West Germany
Kovalenko, Tim; Sauerbier, Timo; Schröpf, Benedikt - 2024
In West Germany, the average size of establishments declined during the 1990s and started to increase again in the late …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014501125
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Evolution of the East German wage structure
Brüll, Eduard; Gathmann, Christina - 2020
in East Germany after 2009. Compositional changes of the workforce and selection along the employment margin play only a …We analyze the evolution of the wage structure in East Germany over the past two decades and compare it to West Germany …. Both regions experienced a rise in wage inequality between 1995 and 2009 with wage dispersion in East Germany exceeding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012387849
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Explaining job polarization in Europe : the roles of technology, globalization and institutions
Goos, Maarten; Manning, Alan; Salomons, Anna - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008698975
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Restrictions of fixed term employment contracts : evidence from a German reform
Brüll, Eduard - 2019
This paper examines the impact of legal restrictions on fixed-term contracts on employment, wages and the careers of labour market entrants. Specifically, I analyse a 2001 German reform that made it more difficult for establishments that are not subject to employment protection to hire workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012060809
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Wage discrimination and occupational segregation of foreign male workers in Germany
Velling, Johannes - 1995
We analyze wage discrimination against foreign male workers in Germany with respect to different nationality groups and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622892
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Wage discrimination and occupational segregation of foreign male workers in Germany
Velling, Johannes - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014449271