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In Germany, the streaming of students into an academic or nonacademic track at age 10 can be revised at later stages of …
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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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Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and private child care is only available at considerably higher cost. I use a … care ; labor supply ; discrete choice ; panel study ; Germany …
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We analyze the extent to which endogenous cultural amenities affect the spatial equilibrium share of high-human-capital employees. To overcome endogeneity, we draw on a quasi-natural experiment in German history and exploit the exogenous spatial distribution of baroque opera houses built as a...
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Heterogeneity in the ethnic composition of Germany's immigrant population renders general conclusions on the degree of …
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Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are …, differences in mothers' employment patterns can partly be explained by the different tax systems: While Germany has a system of …
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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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This paper contrasts labour participation behaviour and wages of native and immigrant women. Since the impact of family structure on labor supply differs between natives and immigrants, we explicitly distinguish between part-time and full-time jobs. The choice of jobs is accounted for by an...
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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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individual-level data for West Germany for the period 1983 to 1994, this paper explores both the demographic heterogeneity of …
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