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We estimate the elasticity of enrollment into higher education with respect to the amount of means tested student aid (BAfoeG) provided by the federal government using the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP). Potential student aid is derived on the basis of a detailed tax-benefit microsimulation...
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We analyze the role of distance from a university in the decision to attend higher education in Germany. Students who …
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entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …
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regulations associated with the introduction of conscription in Germany in 1956. We estimate conscription to increase the …
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In this paper, the role of the computer at the workplace will be examined in determining the wage structure in Germany … (1997) had for France, that in Germany the coefficient for computer usage at the workplace did not remain stable and …
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what extent business cycles or unemployment levels influence entries into entrepreneurship. Our analysis for Germany …
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Despite numerous studies on skill development, we know little about the causal effects of music training on cognitive and non-cognitive skills. This study examines how long-term music training during childhood and youth affects the development of cognitive skills, school grades, personality,...
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Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification … employees and the overall level of self-employment in West Germany, their explanatory power is much lower for the stronger … increase of solo self-employment and of self-employment in former socialist East Germany. …
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