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Student Loan Reforms for German Higher Education : Financing Tuition Fees

Chapman, Bruce - 2011

It is generally agreed that the funding base for German universities is inadequate and perhaps the time has come for serious consideration of the imposition of non-trivial tuition charges. Against this background, this paper compares conventional and income contingent loans for financing tuition...

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The Rise of the East and the Far East : German Labor Markets and Trade Integration

Dauth, Wolfgang - 2012

regions specialized in import-competing industries, both in manufacturing and beyond. Regions specialized in export …-regional variation in initial industry structures and use trade flows of other high-income countries as instruments for regional import … and export exposure. We find that the rise of "the East" in the world economy caused substantial job losses in German …

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Green certificates and emission trading

Morthorst, Poul Erik (contributor) - 2002

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Exports, Imports and Firm Survival : First Evidence for Manufacturing Enterprises in Germany

Wagner, Joachim - 2011

This paper documents the relationship between firm survival and three types of international trade activities - exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods, that...

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Earnings Effects of Training Programs

Lechner, Michael; Melly, Blaise - 2021

In an evaluation of a job-training program, the influence of the program on the individual earnings capacity is important, because it reflects the program effect on human capital. Estimating these effects is complicated because earnings are observed for employed individuals only, and employment...

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Everybody's a Victim? Global Terror, Well-Being and Political Attitudes

Akay, Alpaslan - 2018

, Russia, Switzerland, the UK and the US. Individual well-being information for 750,000 individual x year observations …

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East-West Trade and Migration : The Austro-German Case

Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2021

Trade and migration have become more important in recent years for Austria and Germany. The transition in Central and Eastern Europe has played an important role in this development. The derived labor market consequences are not fully clear so far. This paper presents the results of econometric...

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Social and political responses to ecological tax reform in Europe : special issue

Dresner, Simon (contributor); Dunne, Louise (contributor); … - 2006

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The Unequal Incidence of Non-Standard Employment Across Occupational Groups : An Empirical Analysis of Post-Industrial Labour Markets in Germany and Europe

Marx, Paul - 2011

The paper addresses an often neglected question in labour market research: to which extent do outcomes aggregated on the national level disguise occupational diversity in employment conditions? In particular, how and why do occupational groups differ with regard to the incidence of non-standard...

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The Effect of Migration and Spatial Connectivity on Regional Skill Endowments Across Europe : 1988-2010

Tani, Massimiliano - 2013

This paper investigates the effects of labour migration and openness to trade on regional skill endowments across the European Union at a time of increased economic integration. Using regional data from Eurostat's Regio database and the open web source Openflight for the period 1998-2010 we test...

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