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Did Tuition Fees in Germany Constrain Students' Budgets? New Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2014

Less than a decade ago, several German states introduced tuition fees for university education. Despite their comparatively low level, fees were perceived by the public to increase social injustice, and have been abolished. Whereas other studies have shown no effect on enrollment, we analyze the...

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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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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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An Empirical Assessment of Workload and Migrants' Health in Germany

Ingwersen, Kai; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2021

Workload and its physical and mental burden can have detrimental effects on individual health. As different jobs are associated with specific patterns of health development, occupational selection of socioeconomic groups can be attributed to health differences in society. Despite a long economic...

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Did the Bologna Process Challenge the German Apprenticeship System? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Thomsen, Stephan L.; Trunzer, Johannes - 2021

Starting in 1999, the Bologna Process reformed the German five-year study system for a first degree into the three-year bachelor's (BA) system to harmonize study lengths in Europe and improve competitiveness. This reform unintentionally challenged the German apprenticeship system that offers...

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The Employment Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany : A Microeconometric Evaluation

Caliendo, Marco; Hujer, Reinhard; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2021

In this paper we evaluate the employment effects of job creation schemes on the participating individuals in Germany …. Job creation schemes are a major element of active labour market policy in Germany and are targeted at long …

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New Evidence on the Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany - a Matching Approach with Threefold Heterogeneity

Hujer, Reinhard; Caliendo, Marco; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2021

This paper evaluates the effects of job creation schemes on the participating individuals in Germany. Since previous … empirical studies of these measures have been based on relatively small datasets and focussed on East Germany, this is the first …

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