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The Effect of Tuition Fees on Student Enrollment and Location Choice – Interregional Migration, Border Effects and Gender Differences

Alecke, Björn; Burgard, Claudia; Mitze, Timo - 2013

This paper investigates the effects of tuition fees on the university enrollment and location decision of high school graduates in Germany. After a Federal Constitutional Court decision in 2005, 7 out of 16 German federal states introduced tuition fees for higher education. In the empirical...

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Spillover effects of local human capital stock on adult obesity: Evidence from German neighborhoods

Dang, Rui - 2015

This paper is the first to estimate the causal effect of local human capital stock on individual adiposity and adds to the existing literature on estimating human capital externalities at the neighborhood level. We explore the possible causal pathways that college-educated neighbors exert on...

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The impact of cultural diversity on the German housing market

Bayar, Mehmet - 2016

This paper documents a positive impact of cultural diversity and cultural similarity on rental prices of the German … rents. These results suggest an economic impact that is an order of magnitude bigger than that found in labor markets …. Consequently, cultural diversity can be considered as a city-specific consumption amenity. The positive impact of cultural …

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Business cycle synchronization in the EMU: Core vs. periphery

Belke, Ansgar; Domnick, Clemens; Gros, Daniel - 2016

This paper examines business cycle synchronization in the European Monetary Union with a special focus on the core-periphery pattern in the aftermath of the crisis. Using a quarterly index for business cycle synchronization by Cerqueira (2013), our panel data estimates suggest that it is...

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Ageing by feet? Regional migration, neighbourhood choice and local demographic change in German cities

Neumann, Uwe - 2016

In countries with an ageing population, regional migration may accentuate local progress in demographic change. This paper investigates whether and to what extent diversity in ageing among urban neighbourhoods in Germany was reinforced by regional migration during the past two decades. The...

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Sorting in an urban housing market - is there a response to demographic change?

Neumann, Uwe; Taruttis, Lisa - 2018

In urban areas, there is considerable neighbourhood-level variation in population characteristics. Using Dortmund as a case study we analyse whether and to what extent rents, housing prices and segregation dynamics corresponded with demographic ageing in urban neighbourhoods between 2007 and...

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Endogenous segregation dynamics and housing market interactions: An ABM approach

Bonakdar, Said Benjamin - 2019

In contrast to previous research, I hypothesize that residential segregation patterns do not only result from an individual's perception of different ethnicities, but is rather affected by housing market interactions and socioeconomic endowment, like income and education. I implement a...

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Berlin calling - Internal migration in Germany

Bauer, Thomas K.; Rulff, Christian; Tamminga, Michael M. - 2019

This paper analyzes the determinants of internal migration in Germany. Using data on the NUTS-3 level for different age groups and Pseudo-Poisson Maximum Likelihood (PPML) gravity models, the empirical analysis focuses on the relevant push and pull factors of internal migration over the life...

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Rental prices in Germany: A comparison between migrants and natives

Eilers, Lea; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; Vance, Colin - 2017

This paper deals with the question of whether migrants in Germany pay a rent premium for apartments of comparable quality and neighborhood characteristics. We use a twostep selection-correction model augmented by a control function to account for nonrandom neighborhood choice. The estimation...

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Internal Migration, Regional Labour Market Dynamics and Implications for German East-West Disparities – Results from a Panel VAR

Alecke, Björn; Mitze, Timo; Untiedt, Gerhard - 2009

This paper analyses the causal linkages between regional labour market variables and internal migration flows among German states between 1991-2006. We adopt a Panel VAR approach to identify the feedback effects among the variables and analyse the dynamic properties of the system through...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265805

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