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Germany, where East German data on economic activity are unavailable for detailed regional levels and historical time series …
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exploiting the reorganization of the school system in East Germany after reunification. Our identification strategy utilizes …
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Using the 41-year division of Germany as a natural experiment, we show that the GDR's gender-equal institutions created … a culture that has undone the male breadwinner norm and its consequences. Since reunification, East Germany still … differs from West Germany not only by a higher female contribution to household income, but also because East German women can …
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We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" – China and Eastern Europe … sector in Germany. We also conduct our analysis at the individual worker level, and find that trade had a stabilizing overall …
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Trade and migration have become more important in recent years for Austria and Germany. The transition in Central and …
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This paper exploits the idiosyncratic line of contact separating Allied and Soviet troops within East Germany at the … end of WWII to study political resistance in a non-democracy. When Nazi Germany surrendered, 40% of what would become the …
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manufacturing decline in Germany. It even retained those jobs in the economy …
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. Time series data analysis for Germany indicates additionally that FDI induced higher innovation dynamics will raise output … real income gain of nearly 2% should be expected for Germany (and the EU): considerably higher than what the official TTIP …
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In this paper we investigate whether the effects of terrorism in one country spillover to affect trade in neighboring nations. Using a sample of more than 160 countries from 1976 to 2014, we report robust evidence that terrorist attacks in a nation's contiguous neighbors significantly reduce...
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This paper examines the role of immigrant networks on trade, particularly through the demand effect. First, we examine the effect of immigration on trade when the immigrants consume more of the goods that are abundant in their home country than the natives in a standard Heckscher-Ohlin model and...
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