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10 years after: EU enlargement, closed borders, and migration to Germany
Elsner, Benjamin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013
of migration flows from the New Member States to Germany. We demonstrate that immigration increased substantially despite … that Germany would have been better off, had it immediately opened its labor market. Finally, the Great recession allows us …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291411
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Advising Policymakers Through the Media
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2004
In the information age an exchange with the media is part of the duties the economics profession has to deliver to educate the public and to ensure its position in society. A key issue is the education of policymakers through the media. It is the silver bullet of policy advice in comparison to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261771
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A call for comparative research: Consequences of a rising income inequality for state activities
Neubäumer, Renate - 2011
The aim of this discussion paper is not only to activate a debate over the interrelation between rising income inequality and economic policy measures but also to initiate comparative research in several European countries and North America. It discusses the consequences of a rising income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278315
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Productivity premia for German manufacturing firms exporting to the Euro-area and beyond: First evidence from robust fixed effects estimations
Verardi, Vincenzo; Wagner, Joachim - 2010
estimates of the productivity premium of German firms exporting to the Euro-zone and beyond, controlling for unobserved time … invariant firm specific effects, and tests for self-selection of more productive firms into exporting beyond the Euro-zone. (3 … share of outliers. Using a clean sample without outliers the estimated productivity premium of firms that export to the Euro-zone …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269790
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Generating legitimacy for labor market and welfare state reforms: the role of policy advice in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden
Eichhorst, Werner; Wintermann, Ole - 2005
structured and to what it extent it could influence actual policy-making in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden over the last …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267639
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Policy Evaluation and Economic Policy Advice
Schmidt, Christoph M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Arguably, one of the most important developments in the field of applied economics during the last decades has been the emergence of systematic policy evaluation, with its distinct focus on the establishment of causality. By contrast to the natural sciences, the objects of our scientific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233833
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Generating Legitimacy for Labor Market and Welfare State Reforms: The Role of Policy Advice in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden
Eichhorst, Werner; Wintermann, Ole - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
structured and to what it extent it could influence actual policy-making in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden over the last …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703504
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Advising Policymakers Through the Media
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
In the information age an exchange with the media is part of the duties the economics profession has to deliver to educate the public and to ensure its position in society. A key issue is the education of policymakers through the media. It is the silver bullet of policy advice in comparison to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703747
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Are Nascent Entrepreneurs Jacks-of-All-Trades? A Test of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data
Wagner, Joachim - 2003
In a recent paper Edward Lazear proposed the jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship. Based on a coherent model of the choice between self-employment and paid employment he shows that having a background in a large number of different roles increases the probability of becoming an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261621
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Norm-Based Trade Union Membership: Evidence for Germany
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2003
for social custom effects in the determination of union membership. Using panel data for Germany, we find evidence for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261655