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Short term living conditions and long term prospects of immigrant children in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2000

Der im Ausland geborene Teil der in Deutschland lebenden Bevölkerung besteht aus Ausländern und Aussiedlern, die aus … osteuropäischen Ländern nach Deutschland emigriert sind. Während die erste Gruppe mit Problemen konfrontiert ist, die aus dem typisch … deutschen Pass. Etwa die Hälfte der Immigranten, die seit 1984 nach Deutschland kamen, sind der Gruppe der Aussiedler …

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Gaining access to housing in Germany : the foreign minority experience

Drever, Anita I.; Clark, William A. V. - 2002

Housing is a critical component of household well being and the extent to which minority households have achieved parity with Germans is a measure of the extent to which this population is integrated into the larger German society. Specifically we examine whether the housing conditions for...

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E-business in service industries : usage patterns and service gaps

Preißl, Brigitte - 2003

The empirical data presented here have been derived from a company survey which has been conducted in eight service sectors across the EU. From these eight sectors four sectors have been chosen for the present analysis. The criterion for selection was comparability with respect to market...

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What makes an entrepreneur and does it pay? : native men, Turks, and other migrants in Germany

Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Zimmermann, … - 2003

This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong entrepreneurial tradition, and the self-employed Turks in Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs...

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Nuclear power, democracy, development, and nuclear warheads : determinants for introducing nuclear power

Sorge, Lars; Neumann, Anne; Hirschhausen, Christian R. von - 2019

This paper analyzes the nature of democratic development in a nation on the process of introducing nuclear power over the period 1960 - 2017 for an unbalanced panel of 171 countries. Given the involved political process of introducing nuclear power and its political importance, as well as the...

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Measuring productivity when technologies are heterogeneous : a semi-parametric approach for electricity generation

Seifert, Stefan - 2015

While productivity growth in electricity generation is associated with multiple positive effects from an economic and environmental perspective, measuring it is challenging. This paper proposes a framework to estimate and decompose productivity growth for a sector characterized by multiple...

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Employment and human capital investment intentions among recent refugees in Germany

Haan, Peter; Kroh, Martin; Troutman, Kent - 2017

Motivations to participate in the labour market as well as to invest in labour market skills are crucial for the successful integration of refugees. In this paper we use a unique dataset - the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Refugee Survey, which is a representative longitudinal study of all refugees reported on...

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The term structure of redenomination risk

Bayer, Christian; Kim, Chi Hyun; Kriwoluzky, Alexander - 2018

This paper assesses redenomination risk in the euro area. We first estimate daily default-risk-free yield curves for French, German, and Italian bonds that can be redenominated and for bonds that cannot. Then, we extract the compensation for redenomination risk from the yield spreads between...

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Nuclear decommissioning after the German nuclear phase-out : an integrated view on new regulations and nuclear logistics

Scherwath, Tim; Wealer, Ben; Mendelevitch, Roman - 2019

With Germany's nuclear phase-out, 23 reactors need to be dismantled in the near future. Initiated by the dire financial situation of the affected utilities in 2014, a major discourse on ensuring financial liability led to a redistribution of liabilities and finances, with the utilities remaining...

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The top tail of the wealth distribution in Germany, France, Spain, and Greece

Bach, Stefan; Thiemann, Andreas; Zucco, Aline - 2015

We analyze the top tail of the wealth distribution in Germany, France, Spain, and Greece based on the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). Since top wealth is likely to be underrepresented in household surveys we integrate the big fortunes from rich lists, estimate a Pareto...

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