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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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Regulierung in Telekommunikationsmärkten: Technologische Dynamik und Wettbewerbspotential
Czernich, Nina; Falck, Oliver; Kiessl, Thomas; … - In: ifo Schnelldienst 61 (2008) 19, pp. 19-26
wirtschaftliche Entwicklung von Industrienationen wie Deutschland von zentraler Bedeutung. Insbesondere stellt der Umbau der … der hohen Aufbaukosten und der geringen Nachfrage kein infrastrukturbasierter Wettbewerb zu erwarten ist. In diesem Fall … sicherzustellen. In Agglomerationsräumen schafft dagegen der Wettbewerb zwischen wenigen Kopf-an-Kopf-Wettbewerbern Anreize zur …
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School competition and students' entrepreneurial intentions: International evidence using historical Catholic roots of private schooling
Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
School choice research mostly focuses on academic outcomes. Policymakers increasingly view entrepreneurial traits as a non-cognitive outcome important for economic growth. We use international PISA-2006 student-level data to estimate the effect of private-school competition on students'...
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Regional differenzierte Regulierung und Investitionsanreize im Telekommunikationssektor
Fabritz, Nadine; Falck, Oliver - In: ifo Schnelldienst 66 (2013) 11, pp. 19-23
nationalen Betrachtungsweise hin zu einem subnationalen Ansatz, bei dem Gebiete mit ausgeprägtem Wettbewerb dereguliert werden … hat, zeigt, dass sich in deregulierten Gebieten der infrastrukturbasierte Wettbewerb tendenziell positiv weiterentwickelt …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262757
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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.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271334
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271754
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The Enrollment Effect of Secondary School Fees in Post-War Germany
Riphahn, Regina T. - 2004
This study utilizes the heterogeneity of the fee abolition for West German secondary schools to identify its effect on enrollment and to obtain an estimate of the price elasticity of demand for education. The analysis is based on administrative school enrollment statistics as well as on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262043