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Beyond GDP and Back : What is the Value-Added by Additional Components of Welfare Measurement?
de New (née Kassenboehmer), Sonja C. - 2011
Recently, building on the highly polarizing Stiglitz report, a growing literature suggests that statistical offices and applied researchers explore other aspects of human welfare apart from material well-being, such as job security, crime, health, environmental factors and subjective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130791
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The Heterogeneous Effects of Training Incidence and Duration on Labor Market Transitions
Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2010
start. The effects are higher for women than for men and higher in West Germany than in East Germany. Further, we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136712
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Do Guns Displace Books? The Impact of Compulsory Military Service on Educational Attainment
Bauer, Thomas K. - 2011
regulations associated with the introduction of conscription in Germany in 1956. We estimate conscription to increase the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123921
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Up or Out : Research Incentives and Career Prospects of Postdocs in Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2012
Academic careers in Germany have been under debate for a while. We conduct a survey among postdocs in Germany, to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108904
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Evaluating the Labor-Market Effects of Compulsory Military Service
Bauer, Thomas K. - 2009
exploiting the regression-discontinuity design of the military draft in Germany during the 1950s. Unbiased estimates of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154982
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The Impact of Demographic Change on Human Capital Accumulation
Fertig, Michael - 2009
effect of the relative cohort size on educational attainment of young adults in Germany is analyzed utilizing data from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159508
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Which Program for Whom? Evidence on the Comparative Effectiveness of Public Sponsored Training Programs in Germany
Biewen, Martin - 2008
We use a new and exceptionally rich administrative data set for Germany to evaluate the employment effects of a variety … dynamic selection into programs. Our results suggest that in West Germany both short-term and medium-term programs show … exceptions, we find little evidence for significant positive treatment effects in East Germany. There is some evidence that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773490
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The Erosion of Union Membership in Germany : Determinants, Densities, Decompositions
Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2008
Union density in Germany has declined remarkably during the last two decades. We estimate socio-economic and workplace …-related determinants of union membership in East and West Germany using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel by means of Chamberlain … differences between East and West Germany as well as the corresponding changes in NUD over time. Blinder-Oaxaca decompositions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773817
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Skill Wage Premia, Employment, and Cohort Effects : Are Workers in Germany All of the Same Type?
Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2008
This paper studies the relationship between employment and wage structures in West Germany based on the IAB employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773848
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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany : Increasing Heterogeneity and Changing Selection into Full-Time Work
Biewen, Martin - 2017
This study revisits the increase in wage inequality in Germany. Accounting for changes in various sets of observables …
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