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Long-lasting effects of socialist education
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; Masella, Paolo - 2016
exploiting the reorganization of the school system in East Germany after reunification. Our identification strategy utilizes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450434
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Undoing gender with institutions : lessons from the German division and reunification
Lippmann, Quentin; Georgieff, Alexandre; … - 2019
Using the 41-year division of Germany as a natural experiment, we show that the GDR's gender-equal institutions created … a culture that has undone the male breadwinner norm and its consequences. Since reunification, East Germany still … differs from West Germany not only by a higher female contribution to household income, but also because East German women can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011992872
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The separation and reunification of Germany : rethinking a natural experiment interpretation of the enduring effects of communism
Becker, Sascha O.; Mergele, Lukas; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020
East and West Germany were far from being randomly selected treatment and control groups. First, the later border is … occupying forces affected East and West differently. Third, a selective fifth of the population fled from East to West Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012182599
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The gradual transformation of continental European labor markets : France and Germany compared
Eichhorst, Werner (contributor) - 2007
Germany and France are both Continental European welfare states with severe labor market problems such as low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003540028
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Employer preferences and social policy : business and the development of job security regulations in Germany since World War I
Emmenegger, Patrick; Marx, Paul - 2010
This article examines the role of business in the historical development of job security regulations in Germany from … business weakness in the aftermath of both World Wars. -- Job security regulations ; Germany ; institutional change ; varieties …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003986342
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Hobbes to Rousseau : inequality, institutions, and development
Cervellati, Matteo (contributor);  … - 2005
We analyze the endogenous evolution of economic and political institutions and the interdependencies with the process of economic development. Favorable economic institutions ensure the appropriability of rents in form of a state of law. We study the conditions under which a state of law can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002543970
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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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Reluctant to reform? : a note on risk-loving politicians and bureaucrats
Thomas, Tobias; Hess, Moritz; Wagner, Gert G. - 2017
empirical results of a survey of the population in Germany, 175 members of the Federal German Parliament (Bundestag), and 106 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011738887
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Prospective NATO or EU membership and institutional change in transition countries
Belke, Ansgar; Bordon, Ingo; Melnykovska, Inna; … - 2009
This paper quantifies the impact of incentives related to potential membership on institutional change as measured by the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 we show that pre-accession incentives provided by EU and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003903298
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How important are labor market institutions for labor market performance in transition countries?
Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander - 2009
This paper offers a first comprehensive study of the relationship between labor market institutions and policies and labor market performance in the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, which in the last two decades experienced radical economic and institutional transformations. Based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003932422