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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 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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The European Crisis and Migration to Germany : Expectations and the Diversion of Migration Flows

Bertoli, Simone - 2013

The analysis of how the economic crisis in Europe has reshaped migration flows faces two challenges: (i) the confounding influence of correlated changes in the attractiveness of alternative destinations, and (ii) the role of rapidly changing expectations about the evolution of the economic...

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10 Years after : EU Enlargement, Closed Borders, and Migration to Germany

Elsner, Benjamin - 2013

We study how the EU enlargement in 2004 and the Great Recession in the late 2000s have shaped the scale and composition … Germans became narrower over time.Almost 10 years after EU enlargement, we re-assess the transitional arrangements, and argue … to study how effective migration within the EU is as an adjustment mechanism. Our data clearly show an increase in …

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Anonymous Job Applications in Europe

Krause-Pilatus, Annabelle - 2013

Numerous empirical studies find a substantial extent of discrimination in hiring decisions. Anonymous job applications have gained attention and popularity to identify and combat this form of discrimination. To test whether their intended effects result in practice, in several European countries...

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The Distributional Impact of in Kind Public Benefits in European Countries

Paulus, Alari - 2009

International comparisons of inequality based on measures of disposable income may not be valid if the size and incidence of publicly-provided in kind benefits differ across the countries considered. The benefits that are financed by taxation in one country may need to be purchased out of...

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The Gradual Transformation of Continental European Labor Markets : France and Germany Compared

Eichhorst, Werner - 2007

Germany and France are both Continental European welfare states with severe labor market problems such as low employment and high and persistent unemployment which can be explained by labor market institutions that inhibit labor market adaptability. This paper analyzes recent reforms in core...

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The (Parlous) State of German Unions

Addison, John T. - 2006

This paper traces the profound decline in German unionism over the course of the last three decades. Today just one in five workers is a union member, and it is now moot whether this degree of penetration is consistent with a corporatist model built on encompassing unions. The decline in union...

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EU Enlargement Under Continued Mobility Restrictions : Consequences for the German Labor Market

Brenke, Karl - 2009

The numbers of migrants from the accessions countries have clearly increased since the enlargement of the EU in 2004 …. Following enlargement, the net inflow of EU8 immigrants has become 2.5 times larger than the four-year period before enlargement …. Poles constitute the largest immigrant group among the EU8 immigrants: since enlargement, 63% of all immigrants and 71% of …

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