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Intensifying the Use of Benefit Sanctions : An Effective Tool to Shorten Welfare Receipt and Speed Up Transitions to Employment?

Boockmann, Bernhard - 2009

Benefit sanctions imposed on non-compliant welfare recipients are a new element in the German welfare system. In practice, the sanction policy and the application of sanctions vary considerably across the 439 welfare agencies. Based on combined administrative and survey data, these differences...

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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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The Immigrant-Native Wage Gap in Germany Revisited

Ingwersen, Kai - 2019

This study provides new evidence on the levels of economic integration experienced by foreigners and naturalised immigrants relative to native Germans from 1994 to 2015. We decompose the wage gap using the method for unconditional quantile regression models by employing a regression of the...

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The Changing Situation of Labor Market Entrants in Germany : A Long-Run Analysis of Wages and Occupational Patterns

Reinhold, Mario - 2016

similar trend in Germany. Based on comprehensive, long-run administrative data for the years 1975 to 2010, we use a set of … reveal similarities between Germany and the U.S. in terms of some declining fortunes of the young. However, whereas in the U ….S. college educated workers have been affected, the results indicate that in Germany the medium-skilled and low-skilled have been …

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New Evidence on the Effects of the Shortened School Duration in the German States : An Evaluation of Post-Secondary Education Decisions

Meyer, Tobias - 2015

Most German states have reformed university preparatory schooling during the last decade by reducing its duration from 13 to 12 years without changing the graduation requirements. In this paper, we use nationwide data on high school graduates and apply a difference-in-differences approach to...

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Improving the Allocation of Spots in Child Care Facilities for Toddlers in Germany : A Mechanism Design Approach

Carlsson, Sissa - 2015

The undersupply of spots in German daycare facilities for toddlers challenges parents' possibilities to work. To ease the situation, the government implemented a new law entitling every child between ages one and three to daycare supervision for about four hours per day. Nevertheless, the...

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