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The Effects of Occupational Knowledge : Job Information Centers, Educational Choices, and Labor Market Outcomes
Saniter, Nils - 2014
outcomes. We proxy occupational knowledge with mandatory visits to job information centers (JICs) in Germany while still …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055230
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Job Loss Fears and (Extremist) Party Identification : First Evidence from Panel Data
Geishecker, Ingo - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097869
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Does Democracy Foster Trust?
Rainer, Helmut - 2006
trusting attitude than West Germans. This suggests a negative effect of communism in East Germany versus democracy in West … Germany on social and institutional trust. However, the experience of democracy by East Germans since reunification did not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779963
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Does Education Affect Attitudes Towards Immigration? Evidence from Germany
Margaryan, Shushanik - 2018
reform in West Germany, this article finds that an additional year of schooling lowers the probability of being very … concerned about immigration to Germany by around six percentage points (20 percent). Furthermore, our findings imply significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906492
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The Effects of Stepwise Minimum Legal Drinking Age Legislation on Mortality : Evidence from Germany
Kamalow, Raffael - 2019
Germany. We exploit sharp differences in legal access to alcohol at 16 and 18 years by implementing a regression discontinuity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867140
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More Opportunity, More Cooperation? The Behavioral Effects of Birthright Citizenship on Immigrant Youth
Felfe, Christina; Kocher, Martin G.; Rainer, Helmut; … - 2021
. We study this question in the context of Germany, by asking whether the propensity of immigrant youth to cooperate with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225546
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One Last Puff? Public Smoking Bans and Smoking Behavior
Anger, Silke - 2010
, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's sixteen federal states. We exploit this variation in …-in-differences estimates show that the introduction of smoke-free legislation in Germany did not change average smoking behavior within the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144930
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Schooling and Citizenship : Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reforms
Siedler, Thomas - 2021
Germany, gradually over time and across federal states. These law changes allow one to investigate the causal impact of years … effect running from schooling to citizenship in Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317231
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Family and Politics : Does Parental Unemployment Cause Right-Wing Extremism?
Siedler, Thomas - 2021
between East and West Germany, both before and after reunification, to investigate a causal relationship. Instrumental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317349
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The Health Effects of Smoking Bans : Evidence from German Hospitalization Data
Kvasnicka, Michael - 2018
This paper studies the short-term impact of public smoking bans on hospitalizations in Germany. It exploits the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915315