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Bright minds, big rent : gentrification and the rising returns to skill
Edlund, Lena; Machado, Cecilia; Sviatschi, Maria - 2015
In 1980, housing prices in the main US cities rose with distance to the city center. By 2010, that relationship had … tolerance for commuting. In a tract-level data set covering the 27 largest US cities, years 1980-2010, we employ a city … city center and their increased presence can account for the observed price changes, notably the rising price premium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011387542
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Is there a gap in the gap? : regional differences in the gender pay gap
Hirsch, Boris; König, Marion; Möller, Joachim - 2009
' ability to discriminate against women. Utilising a large administrative data set for western Germany and a flexible semi …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003863176
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Persistence of the school entry age effect in a system of flexible tracking
Puhani, Patrick A. (contributor); Weber, Andrea (contributor) - 2007
In Germany, the streaming of students into an academic or nonacademic track at age 10 can be revised at later stages of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003634616
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Wages and ageing : is there evidence for the "inverse-U" profile?
Myck, Michał (contributor) - 2007
Britain and Germany looking at two longitudinal datasets (BHPS and GSOEP respectively) for years 1995-2004. It stresses the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003637282
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Analyzing the labor market activity of immigrant families in Germany
Basilio, Leilanie (contributor);  … - 2007
the family's current consumption. Using data for West Germany, we do not find evidence for such a specialization strategy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003637427
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Initial risk matrix, home resources, ability development and children's achievement
Blomeyer, Dorothea; Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; … - 2008
This paper investigates the role of self-productivity and home resources in ability formation from infancy to adolescence. In addition, we study the complementarities between basic cognitive, motor and noncognitive abilities and social as well as academic achievement. Our data are taken from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755918
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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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Is being 'soft on crime' the solution to rising crime rates? : evidence from Germany
Entorf, Horst (contributor); Spengler, Hannes (contributor) - 2008
diversion failed as increasing shares of dismissals by prosecutors and judges enhance crime rates in Germany. Crime is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759023
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The benefits of linking CGE and microsimulation models : evidence from a flat tax analysis
Peichl, Andreas (contributor) - 2008
modelling flat tax reform proposals for Germany. Taking the general equilibrium effects into account has important implications …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759271
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Subjective measures of economic well-being and the influence of income uncertainty
Schwarze, Johannes (contributor) - 2008
This paper provides evidence that subjective measures of individual well being can be used to study the impact of income uncertainty from an ex ante point of view. Two different measures of subjective well being are under study: Satisfaction with household income and the income evaluation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759346