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Markussen, Simen; Nareklishvili, Maria; Røed, Knut - 2024

We assess the hypothesis that declining intergenerational economic mobility in Norway is attributable to a rising signaling value of education accompanied by more overeducation particularly among upperclass offspring. We identify five empirical facts that together point in this direction: •...

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Moving out of the comfort zone : how cultural norms affect attitudes toward immigration

Giesing, Yvonne; Kauder, Björn; Mergele, Lukas; … - 2024

students who moved across the East-West border after German reunification with students who moved within former East Germany …

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The devil is in the details : heterogeneous effects of the german minimum wage on working hours and minijobs

Bossler, Mario; Liang, Ying; Schank, Thorsten - 2024

In 2015, Germany introduced a national minimum wage. While the literature agrees on at most limited negative effects on …

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Changing fertility and heterogeneous motherhood effects : revisiting the effects of a parental benefits reform

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Seidlitz, Arnim - 2024

outcomes in Germany, the child penalty. We further investigate how the 2007 parental benefits reform changed the child penalty …

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Can voluntary adult education reduce unemployment? : causal evidence from East Germany after reunification

Rupieper, Li Kathrin Kaja; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2024

After the German Reunification in 1990, East Germany transitioned from a centrally planned economic system to a market …-level analysis of East Germany between 1991 and 2002. Our identification strategy is based on a decentralized expansion of courses … average. Yet, in counties neighboring West Germany, we find that courses reduced unemployment. Low labor demand may have …

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Parental investments and socio-economic gradients in learning across European countries

Carneiro, Pedro; Reis, Hugo; Toppeta, Alessandro - 2024

Generous maternity leave, affordable daycare, extensive social safety nets, excellent universal health care, and high-quality public schools, are all notable features of Nordic countries. There is a widespread belief that such strong public investments in children contribute to a levelled...

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Violence against women and the substitution of help services in times of lockdown : triangulation of three data sources in Germany

Ebert, Cara; Steinert, Janina - 2024

We study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on domestic violence against women in Germany in 2020. The analysis draws …

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The demise of works councils in Germany

Kohaut, Susanne; Schnabel, Claus - 2024

This paper documents and analyses the demise of works councils in Germany in the period 2007-2022. Using representative … the public sector. Almost two-thirds of workers in the private sector in Germany are not covered by worker co … owner-management of a plant. As our results paint a bleak picture for the future of plant-level co-determination in Germany …

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Do politicians affect firm outcomes? : evidence from connections to the German federal parliament

Diegmann, André; Pohlan, Laura; Weber, Andrea - 2024

We study how connections to German federal parliamentarians affect firm dynamics by constructing a novel dataset to measure connections between politicians and the universe of firms. To identify the causal effect of access to political power, we exploit (i) new appointments to the company...

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Disclosure, trust and persuasion in insurance markets

De Meza, David E.; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Reyniers, Diane J. - 2010

This high-stakes experiment investigates the effect on buyers of mandatory disclosures concerning an insurance policy's value for money (the claims ratio) and the seller's commission. These information disclosures have virtually no effect despite most buyers claiming to value such information....

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