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EU-Fördergelder: "Subventions-Hopping" oder sinnvolle Investitionsförderung - brauchen wir mehr Transparenz?

Thoben, Christa; Schauerte, Hartmut; Pieper, Markus; … - In: ifo Schnelldienst 61 (2008) 05, pp. 3-15

beim Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie, verweist auf die Zahlungen, die Deutschland aus den EU …-Strukturfonds erhält: "In der laufenden Förderperiode 2007-2013 werden rund 26,3 Mrd. € aus den EU-Strukturfonds nach Deutschland fließen … von Transparenz. Leider lasse sich auf Grundlage eines recht allgemeinen Berichtswesens der Mitgliedstaaten die …

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Bauer, Thomas K.; Grave, Barbara S. - 2011

German universities are regarded as being under-financed, inefficient, and performing below average if compared to universities in other European countries and the US. Starting in the 1990s, several German federal states implemented reforms to improve this situation. An important part of these...

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Minimum wages as a barrier to entry: Evidence from Germany

Bachmann, Ronald; Bauer, Thomas K.; Kroeger, Hanna - 2012

This study analyses employers' support for the introduction of industry-specific minimum wages as a cost-raising strategy in order to deter market entry. Using a unique data set consisting of 800 firms in the German service sector, we find some evidence that high-productivity employers support...

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Incentive Effects of Bonus Payments : Evidence from an International Company

Engellandt, Axel; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2004

This study uses panel data describing about 6,500 employees in a large international company to study the incentive effects of performance related pay. The company uses two performance related remuneration mechanisms. One is an individual "surprise" bonus payment. The other is a more structured...

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Temporary Contracts and Employee Effort

Engellandt, Axel; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2003

Temporary contracts provide employers with a tool to screen potential new employees and have been shown to provide "stepping stones" into permanent employment for workers. For both reasons workers on temporary contracts have an incentive to provide more effort than permanent employees. Using...

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Age at school entry and intergenerational educational mobility

Bauer, Philipp C.; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2009

We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children first enter (primary) school. Early age at school entry significantly affects mobility and reduces the relative advantage of children of better educated parents.

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Kindergarten enrollment and the intergenerational transmission of education

Bauer, Philipp C.; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2009

We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children enroll in kindergarten. Taking advantage of heterogeneity across cantons we find that early kindergarten enrollment significantly increases educational mobility.

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Heterogeneity in the Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment : Evidence from Switzerland on Natives and Second Generation Immigrants

Bauer, Philipp C.; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2004

This study applies rich data from the 2000 Swiss census to investigate the patterns of intergenerational education transmission for natives and second generation immigrants. The level of secondary schooling attained by youth aged 17 is related to their parents' educational outcomes using data on...

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The demand for high-skilled workers and immigration policy

Bauer, Thomas K.; Kunze, Astrid - 2004

This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the demand for high-skilled workers using a new firm data set, the IZA International Employer Survey 2000. Our results suggest that while workers from EU-countries are mainly complements to domestic high-skilled workers, workers from non-EU countries...

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Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in Small Establishments

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Bonin, Holger - 2004

Based on a large employer-employee matched data set, the paper investigates the effects of variable enforcement of German dismissal protection legislation on the employment dynamics in small establishments. Specifically, using a difference-in-differences approach, we study the effect of changes...

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