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Start-ups by the unemployed: characteristics, survival and direct employment effects

Caliendo, Marco (contributor); … - 2007

,100 start-ups founded by unemployed persons in Germany. Individuals were subsidized under two different schemes, and we are able …

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Naturalization proclivities, ethnicity and integration

Constant, Amelie (contributor); … - 2007

This paper studies the determinants of naturalization among Turkish and ex-Yugoslav immigrants in Germany …, but not to those educated in Germany. We find that the degree of integration in German society has a differential effect … on citizenship acquisition. While a longer residence in Germany has a negative influence on actual or future …

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Teamwork and intra-firm wage dispersion among blue-collar workers

Jirjahn, Uwe (contributor); Kraft, Kornelius (contributor) - 2008

Using data on a sample of manufacturing establishments in Germany, we find that the use of self-managed teams is …

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Inequality of learning amongst immigrant children in industrialised countries

Schnepf, Sylke Viola (contributor) - 2008

, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and USA. Results indicate that for almost all countries immigrants …

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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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The effect of expansions in maternity leave coverage on children's long-term outcomes

Dustmann, Christian (contributor); … - 2008

This paper evaluates the impact of three major expansions in leave coverage in Germany on the long-run education and …

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A note on the determinants and consequences of outsourcing using German data

Addison, John T.; Bellmann, Lutz; Pahnke, André; … - 2008

Using German data from the Institute for Employment Research Establishment Panel, this paper constructs two main measures of outsourcing and examines their determinants and consequences for employment. There are some commonalities in the correlates of the two measures of outsourcing, as well as...

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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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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...

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The relative effectiveness of selected active labour market programmes and the common support problem

Stephan, Gesine (contributor); Pahnke, André (contributor) - 2008

For Germany, we analyse the (relative) effects of participation in several active labour market programmes on the …

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