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Persistence of the school entry age effect in a system of flexible tracking
Puhani, Patrick A. (contributor); Weber, Andrea (contributor) - 2007
In Germany, the streaming of students into an academic or nonacademic track at age 10 can be revised at later stages of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003634616
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Preferences for childcare policies : theory and evidence
Borck, Rainald (contributor);  … - 2008
We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer private provision to either pure public or mixed provision. If public provision redistributes from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755931
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003737644
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003741923
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Privatization and changes in the wage structure : evidence from firm personnel records
Melly, Blaise (contributor); Puhani, Patrick A. (contributor) - 2008
We investigate the wage effects of privatization using person-level firm-based panel datasets from one privatized and one nonprivatized public sector firm in the same country for the years immediately before and after privatization. Thus, we can analyze the before-after effects of privatization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003763070
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The effects of maternity leave extension on training for young women
Puhani, Patrick A. (contributor);  … - 2008
Using three representative individual-level datasets for West Germany, we estimate the effect of the extension of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003777815
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Union membership and age : the inverted u-shape hypothesis under test
Schnabel, Claus (contributor); Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2008
intervals for the maximum value, we demonstrate that at least for West Germany Blanchflower's hypothesis does not hold. Our … taken for granted. -- Unionization ; age ; inverted U-shape ; Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003778856
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Higher productivity in importing German manufacturing firms : self-selection, learning from importing, or both?
Vogel, Alexander (contributor); Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2008
document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … for trading internationally are about the same in West and East Germany. Compared to firms that do not trade at all two …-by-importing. -- Imports ; exports ; productivity ; enterprise panel data ; Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003779041
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WTP vs. WTA : christmas presents and the endowment effect
Bauer, Thomas K. (contributor);  … - 2008
Using data on the valuation of Christmas gifts received by students in different fields at a German university, we investigate whether the endowment effect differs between students of economics and other respondents and whether it varies with the market price of the object under consideration....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003779087
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Exports and profitability : first evidence for German manufacturing firms
Fryges, Helmut (contributor); Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2008
Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It …. -- Exports ; profitability ; micro data ; Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771833