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Advertisements provide consumers with knowledge about private products, whereas political information is required to provide voters with knowledge of public issues. Modern information technologies and globalization are increasing the exposure of individuals to information. Goods advertising is...
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experiment in West Germany, where people in geographically restricted areas received commercial TV via terrestrial frequencies …
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wage regressions in order to obtain a further control for worker heterogeneity. The finding that future PC variables have a …
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beliefs depend in part on an individual's locus of control, i.e., the extent to which a person believes that future outcomes … are determined by his or her own actions as opposed to external factors. We estimate the impact of locus of control on job … search behavior using a novel panel data set of newly-unemployed individuals in Germany. Consistent with our theoretical …
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This paper analyses the effect of information disseminated by the Internet on voting behavior. We address endogeneity in Internet availability by exploiting regional and technological peculiarities of the preexisting voice telephony network that hinder the roll-out of fixed-line broadband...
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Academic careers in Germany have been under debate for a while. We conduct a survey among postdocs in Germany, to …
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There is a large body of literature analyzing the relationship between objective economic conditions and voting behavior, but there is very little evidence of how perceived economic insecurity impacts on political preferences. Using seventeen years of household panel data from the German...
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Germany and the United Kingdom. Based on nationally representative longitudinal data, our results show that work …-perceived health. -- work time ; hours constraints ; health ; Germany ; United Kingdom …
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East and West Germany. As expected, there are substantial differences with respect to all three of these measures … or redistributive preferences. Nonetheless, individuals from East Germany tend to be more supportive of state …
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question, we use the reunification of Germany as a natural experiment and study the post-reunification trajectory of …
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