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The long-term direct and external effects of Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2011
This paper provides causal evidence on long-term consequences of Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany on the educational … residing in Germany before the Nazi Regime with individual survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Our … identification strategy exploits the plausibly exogenous city-by-cohort variation in the Jewish population in Germany as a unique …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310948
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Employment industry and occupational continuity in Germany : from the Nazi regime to the post-war economic miracle
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2014
employment industry and occupational status in Germany from the beginning of World War II to the post-war reconstruction era …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010393898
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Learning to participate in politics : evidence from Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Okoye, Dozie; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2017
Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany as a quasi-experiment. We find that the expulsion of Jewish professionals had long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664306
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On the origin and composition of the German East-West population gap
Eder, Christoph; Halla, Martin - 2018
The East-West gap in the German population is believed to originate from migrants escaping the socialist regime in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). We use newly collected regional data and the combination of a regression discontinuity design in space with a difference-in-differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011958646
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Exchange rate volatility effects on the German labour market : a survey of recent results and extensions
Buscher, Herbert S.; Mueller, Claudia - 1999
In this paper, a survey on theoretically expected and empirically proved impacts of exchange rate volatility is given. With regard to the West German unemployment, the effects of volatility are empirically analysed using three different volatility measures and four country groups. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294706
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Education promoted secularization
Becker, Sascha O.; Nagler, Markus; Woessmann, Ludger - 2014
Why did substantial parts of Europe abandon the institutionalized churches around 1900? Empirical studies using modern data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of secularization. We construct a unique panel dataset of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010257347
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Employment, exchange rates and labour market rigidity
Alexandre, Fernando; Bação, Pedro; Cerejeira, João; … - 2010
There is increasing evidence that the interaction between shocks and labour market institutions is crucial to understanding the dynamics of employment. In this paper, we show that the inclusion of labour adjustment costs in a trade model affects the impact of exchange rate movements on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003959141
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Distributional effects of monetary policy in emerging market economies
Prasad, Eswar S.; Zhang, Boyang - 2015
We develop a two-sector, heterogeneous-agent model with incomplete financial markets to study the distributional effects and aggregate welfare implications of alternative monetary policy rules in emerging market economies. Relative to inflation targeting, exchange rate management benefits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309046
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Herausbildung erster Wesenszüge des Normalarbeitsverhältnisses in Deutschland
Kendzia, Michael Jan - 2010
contract in Germany from the middle of the 19th century until the beginning of World War I. The beginning of the welfare state … in Germany took place during the 1880s on the basis of dependent employment. For the analysis of this type of employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008780307
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Was Weber wrong? : A human capital theory of protestant economic history
Becker, Sascha O. (contributor);  … - 2007
alternative theory, where Protestant economies prospered because instruction in reading the Bible generated the human capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003610049