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EU-Fördergelder: "Subventions-Hopping" oder sinnvolle Investitionsförderung - brauchen wir mehr Transparenz?
Thoben, Christa; Schauerte, Hartmut; Pieper, Markus; … - In: ifo Schnelldienst 61 (2008) 05, pp. 3-15
beim Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie, verweist auf die Zahlungen, die Deutschland aus den EU …-Strukturfonds erhält: "In der laufenden Förderperiode 2007-2013 werden rund 26,3 Mrd. € aus den EU-Strukturfonds nach Deutschland fließen … von Transparenz. Leider lasse sich auf Grundlage eines recht allgemeinen Berichtswesens der Mitgliedstaaten die …
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Incentive Effects of Bonus Payments : Evidence from an International Company
Engellandt, Axel; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2004
This study uses panel data describing about 6,500 employees in a large international company to study the incentive effects of performance related pay. The company uses two performance related remuneration mechanisms. One is an individual "surprise" bonus payment. The other is a more structured...
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Temporary Contracts and Employee Effort
Engellandt, Axel; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2003
Temporary contracts provide employers with a tool to screen potential new employees and have been shown to provide "stepping stones" into permanent employment for workers. For both reasons workers on temporary contracts have an incentive to provide more effort than permanent employees. Using...
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Age at school entry and intergenerational educational mobility
Bauer, Philipp C.; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2009
We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children first enter (primary) school. Early age at school entry significantly affects mobility and reduces the relative advantage of children of better educated parents.
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Kindergarten enrollment and the intergenerational transmission of education
Bauer, Philipp C.; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2009
We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children enroll in kindergarten. Taking advantage of heterogeneity across cantons we find that early kindergarten enrollment significantly increases educational mobility.
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Heterogeneity in the Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment : Evidence from Switzerland on Natives and Second Generation Immigrants
Bauer, Philipp C.; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2004
This study applies rich data from the 2000 Swiss census to investigate the patterns of intergenerational education transmission for natives and second generation immigrants. The level of secondary schooling attained by youth aged 17 is related to their parents' educational outcomes using data on...
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Age at school entry and intergenerational educational mobility
Bauer, Philipp; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2009
We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children first enter (primary) school. Early age at school entry significantly affects mobility and reduces the relative advantage of children of better educated parents. -- Age at entry ;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003808470
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Kindergarten enrollment and the intergenerational transmission of education
Bauer, Philipp; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2009
We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children enroll in kindergarten. Taking advantage of heterogeneity across cantons we find that early kindergarten enrollment significantly increases educational mobility. -- Kindergarten ;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003902078
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Financial incentives and the timing of retirement : evidence from Switzerland
Hanel, Barbara (contributor); Riphahn, Regina T. (contributor) - 2006
We use reforms in the Swiss public retirement system to identify the responsiveness of retirement timing to financial incentives. A permanent reduction of retirement benefits by 3.4 percent induces more than 70 percent of females to postpone their retirement. The responsiveness of male workers,...
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Incentive effects of bonus payments : evidence from an international company
Engellandt, Axel (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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