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on unobservables. -- Secondary school choice ; school quality instrumental variable estimation ; selection on …
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longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a …
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We investigate how the economic consequences of the pandemic, and of the government-mandated measures to contain its spread, affected the self-employed relative to employed individuals in Germany and, secondly, to what extent the female self-employed were more strongly hit than their male...
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Do incumbents in an election have an advantage, and if so, are these advantages heterogeneous across parties or government and opposition? We first present a theoretical discussion on the possible heterogeneity of incumbency effects in a pure two-party system. Then, we estimate the incumbency...
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I test if parties matter with respect to the allocation of public expenditures in Germany. Considering the allocation of rights and duties due to the federal structure, two econometric models are estimated. First, a SURE model analyses spending at the federal level for the period from 1950 to...
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The paper extends a static discrete-choice labor supply model by adding participation and hours constraints. We identify restrictions by survey information on the eligibility and search activities of individuals as well as actual and desired hours. This provides for a more robust identification...
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in Turkey and in Germany. In our analysis we use the new data set provided by the German monetary authorities, which was …
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in Germany. To explain the gender gap, a structural microeconometric model of the transition rates is estimated, which …-employment and dependent employment are estimated separately by gender, accounting for non-random selection into the employment … states. The gender differential in the transition rates is decomposed using a novel extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca technique …
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In this paper, we focus on network- and gender-specific determinants of remittances, which are often explained … and the network structure in the home country both play important roles in explaining remittances. -- Remittances ; gender …
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of risk preferences across investors. Estimation results provide no evidence of gender differences in investors' risk …This study investigates the role of gender in financial risk-taking. Specifically, I ask whether female investors tend … expected return and its standard deviation, whereas standard deviation serves as a measure of risk. Gender differences …
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