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Financial student aid and enrollment into higher education : new evidence from Germany

Steiner, Viktor (contributor); … - 2008

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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Does distance determine who attends a university in Germany?

Spieß, C. Katharina (contributor); … - 2008

We analyze the role of distance from a university in the decision to attend higher education in Germany. Students who …

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Can child care policy encourage employment and fertility? : evidence from a structural model

Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2009

In this paper we develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal feedback effects between the two outcomes. We identify the effect of financial incentives on the employment and fertility decision by exploiting variation in the tax and transfer...

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The parental leave benefit reform in Germany : costs and labour market outcomes of moving towards the Scandinavian model

Spieß, C. Katharina (contributor); … - 2006 - [Rev]

Germany is known to have one of the lowest fertility rates among Western European countries and also relatively low … Germany we calculate first-round effects, which assume no behavioural changes and second-round effects, where we take labour …

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Does distance determine who attends a university in Germany?

Spieß, C. Katharina; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: Economics of education review 29 (2010) 3, pp. 470-479

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Policy evaluation and economic policy advice

Schmidt, Christoph M. (contributor) - 2007

Arguably, one of the most important developments in the field of applied economics during the last decades has been the emergence of systematic policy evaluation, with its distinct focus on the establishment of causality. By contrast to the natural sciences, the objects of our scientific...

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Evaluating the German "Mini-Job" reform using a true natural experiment

Caliendo, Marco (contributor); … - 2006

. The "Mini-Job" reform in Germany -- introduced on April 1, 2003 -- can be seen in line with these policies, exempting …

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Who starts a business and who is self-employed in Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Rusakova, Alina - 2012

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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Do guns displace books? : the impact of compulsory military service on educational attainment

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; … - 2011

regulations associated with the introduction of conscription in Germany in 1956. We estimate conscription to increase the …

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Discretionary measures of active labor market policy : the German employment promotion reform in perspective

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2000

recent studies analyze the impact of measures of employment promotion for the case of Germany, no comparable study exists on …

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