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The Long-Term Direct and External Effects of Jewish Expulsions in Nazi Germany

Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude - 2011

This paper provides causal evidence on long-term consequences of Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany on the educational attainment and political outcomes of German children. We combine a unique city-level dataset on the fraction of Jewish population residing in Germany before the Nazi Regime with...

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Learning to Participate in Politics : Evidence from Jewish Expulsions in Nazi Germany

Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude - 2017

This paper provides causal evidence on the importance of socioeconomic circumstances, socialization, and childhood events, in the formation of adult political behaviour and attitudes, using region-by-cohort variation in exposure to the Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany as a quasi-experiment. We...

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Top Incomes in Germany, 1871-2014

Bartels, Charlotte - 2018

This study provides new evidence on top income shares in Germany from the period of industrialization to the present. Income concentration was high in the nineteenth century, dropped sharply after World War I and during the hyperinflation years of the 1920s, and increased rapidly throughout the...

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Employment Industry and Occupational Continuity in Germany : From the Nazi Regime to the Post-War Economic Miracle

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2014

Using retrospective survey data that covers 1939, 1950, 1960, and 1971, I compare individual-level changes in employment industry and occupational status in Germany from the beginning of World War II to the post-war reconstruction era dubbed the Economic Miracle (Wirtschaftswunder). This...

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Management Compensation and the Economic Crisis : Longitudinal Evidence from the German Chemical Sector

Grund, Christian - 2013

Making use of unique balanced panel data for the German chemical sector from the years 2008 to 2011, we explore the extent to which managers' compensation was affected by the economic crisis and the extent to which it increased afterwards. Carrying out longitudinal analyses, we find that, on...

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Southern African Economic Integration : Evidence from an Augmented Gravity Model

Warin, Thierry - 2009

This paper investigates the feasibility of creating a common-currency union consisting of 16 countries in Southern Africa. We estimate an augmented-gravity model that includes public deficit, public debt, public expenditure, inflation, and the foreign reserves position. We also integrate...

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Migration and Imperfect Labor Markets : Theory and Cross-Country Evidence from Denmark, Germany and the UK

Brücker, Herbert - 2012

We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are … compared to Germany and, in particular, Denmark. As a consequence, immigration has a much larger effect on the unemployment … rate in Germany and Denmark, while the wage effects are larger in the UK. Moreover, the elasticity of substitution between …

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Intra-Household Time Allocation : Gender Differences in Caring for Children

Garcia-Mainar, Inmaculada - 2009

characteristics, for five samples (Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Spain), with data being drawn from the European Community …

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Do Labour Market Institutions Matter? Micro-Level Wage Effects of International Outsourcing in Three European Countries

Geishecker, Ingo - 2008

labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries …

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Entrepreneurship, Wealth, Liquidity Constraints and Start-Up Costs

Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Sopraseuth, Thepthida - 2021

We study the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship between wealth and the fraction of entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model with endogenous wealth and entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts that, with liquidity...

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