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The savings behavior of temporary and permanent migrants in Germany

Bauer, Thomas K. (contributor); Sinning, Mathias (contributor) - 2005

This paper examines the relative savings position of migrant households in West Germany, paying particular attention to …), our findings reveal significant differences in the savings rates between foreign-born and German-born individuals. These … the determinants of immigrants' savings rates reveal that intended return migration does not only affect remittances, but …

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Who gets vaccinated? : cognitive and non-cognitive predictors of individual behavior in pandemics

Andor, Mark Andreas; Bauer, Thomas K.; Eßer, Jana; … - 2023

This study investigates the different cognitive and non-cognitive characteristics associated with individuals' willingness to get vaccinated against Covid-19 and their actual vaccination status. Our empirical analysis is based on data obtained from three survey waves of about 2,000 individuals...

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Business taxation and wages: Evidence from individual panel data

Bauer, Thomas K.; Kasten, Tanja; Siemers, Lars-H. R. - 2012

Empirical evidence on the degree of business-tax shifting to employees via the wage level is highly controversial and rare. It remains open to which extent the tax burden is shifted, whether there are differences for tax increases and decreases, or whether there exists some treatment...

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Technological change, organizational change, and job turnover

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan - 2002

This paper uses a German employer-employee matched panel data set to investigate the effect of organizational and technological changes on gross job and worker flows. The empirical results indicate that organizational change is skill-biased because it reduces predominantly net employment growth...

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Sheepskin effects in Japan

Bauer, Thomas K.; Dross, Patrick J.; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2002

Using data for the 1990's, this paper examines the role of sheepskin effects in the returns to education for Japan. Our estimations indicate that sheepskin effects explain about 50% of the total returns to schooling. We further find that sheepskin effects are only important for workers in small...

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Immigration policy, assimilation of immigrants and natives' sentiments towards immigrants : evidence from 12 OECD-countries

Bauer, Thomas K.; Lofstrom, Magnus; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2000

As in the U.S. and Canada, migration is a controversial issue in Europe. This paper explores the possibility that immigration policy may affect the labor market assimilation of immigrants and hence natives' sentiments towards immigrants. It first reviews the assimilation literature in economics...

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Sibling rivalry in educational attainment : the German case

Bauer, Thomas K.; Gang, Ira N. - 2000

Recent studies exploring sibling rivalry in the allocation of household resources in the U.S. produce conflicting results. We contribute to this discussion by addressing the role of sibling rivalry in educational attainment in Germany. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP) we are able to...

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What are migration networks?

Bauer, Thomas K.; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2000

Migration networks are usually captured by the number of people from the migrant's country in the host region. Using Mexican migration data, we analyze the effects of the usual network variable and two additional origin-village-specific variables on migrants' location choice.

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Learning efficiency of economics students

Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Bauer, Thomas K. - 1998

Using a stochastic frontier approach this paper evaluates the effects of substantial changes in the teaching material on students learning efficiency. The results indicate that the main effects of the re-organization on the learning efficiency was a decreasing importance of students' attendance...

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Immigrant labor and workplace safety

Bauer, Thomas K.; Million, Andreas; Rotte, Ralph; … - 1998

Using standard as well as recently developed univariate and bivariate count data models, this paper analyzes the determinants of workplace accidents using a firm data set for Germany. Given the tight system of public workplace safety regulation, introduced partly as early as in 1869, and the...

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