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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...

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Self-Employment : Way to End Unemployment? Empirical Evidence from German Pseudo-Panel Data

Glocker, Daniela - 2007

basis of pseudo-panel data for Germany in the period 1996-2002. The estimation method accounts for cohort fixed effects and …

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Income Taxes and Entrepreneurial Choice : Empirical Evidence from Germany

Fossen, Frank M. - 2007

Germany, the top marginal income tax rates were reduced exclusively for entrepreneurs in 1994 and 1999-2000. These tax reforms …

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Does More Generous Student Aid Increase Enrolment Rates into Higher Education? Evaluating the German Student Aid Reform of 2001

Baumgartner, Hans J. - 2007

(BAfoeG) in Germany. We evaluate the effectiveness of a recent reform of student aid that substantially increased the amount …

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Making Work Pay for the Elderly Unemployed : Evaluating Alternative Policy Reforms for Germany

Steiner, Viktor - 2006

effects of these hypothetical reforms are analysed on the basis a detailed micro-simulation model for Germany which includes a …

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Intergenerational Conflict, Partisan Politics, and Public Higher Education Spending : Evidence from the German States

Steiner, Viktor - 2006

We analyze potential effects of demographic change and political constellations on higher education spending. In our panel analysis of west German states (Laender) for the period 1985 to 2002 we find empirical evidence for the hypothesis of a negative relationship between demographic aging and...

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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