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Jobs, crime, and votes : a short-run evaluation of the refugee crisis in Germany
Gehrsitz, Markus; Ungerer, Martin - 2016
Millions of refugees made their way to Europe between 2014 and 2015, with over one million arriving in Germany alone. Yet, little is known about the impact of this inflow on labor markets, crime, and voting behavior. This article uses administrative data on refugee allocation and provides an...
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Jobs, crime, and votes : a short-run evaluation of the refugee crisis in Germany
Gehrsitz, Markus; Ungerer, Martin - 2018
Millions of refugees made their way to Europe between 2014 and 2015, with over one million arriving in Germany alone. Yet, little is known about the impact of this inflow on labor markets, crime, and voting behavior. This article uses administrative data on refugee allocation and provides an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011876117
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Education and unemployment : a French-German comparison
Lauer, Charlotte - 2003
This paper analyses the link between educational attainment and unemployment risk in a French-German comparison, based … on a discrete time competing risks hazard rate model applied to comparable microdata sets. The unemployment risk is … broken down into the risk of entering unemployment and the risk, once unemployed, of not getting reemployed. The paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448577
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The effects of the bologna process on college enrollment and drop-out rates
Horstschräer, Julia; Sprietsma, Maresa - 2010
This paper estimates the short-term effects of the introduction of the Bachelor degree in the framework of the Bologna Process on college enrollment and drop-out rates. We use variation in the timing of the Bachelor implementation at the department level to identify the effect of the reform...
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Should low-wage workers care about where they work? : assessing the impact of employer characteristics on low-wage mobility
Gürtzgen, Nicole; Heinze, Anja - 2010
This paper studies the importance of employer-specific determinants in escaping low earnings in Germany. To address the initial conditions problem and the endogeneity of employer retention, we model (intra-firm) low-pay transitions using a multivariate Probit model that accounts for selection...
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Productivity effects of business process outsourcing : a firm-level investigation based on panel data
Ohnemus, Jörg - 2009
This paper analyses the impact of business process outsourcing (BPO) on firm productivity based on a comprehensive German firm-level panel data set covering manufacturing and service industries. The growing importance of service inputs into the production process is undisputed. Firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003922594
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Research grants, sources of ideas and the effects on academic research
Hottenrott, Hanna; Lawson, Cornelia - 2012
Based on a sample of research units in science and engineering at German universities, this study reports survey evidence showing that research grants impact research content. Research units that receive funds from industry are more likely to source ideas from the private sector. The higher the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009572474
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The residency discount for rents in Germany and the Tenancy Law Reform Act 2001 : evidence from quantile regressions
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Fuchs, Benjamin - 2016
Most countries show a residency discount in rents for sitting tenants. In the wake of strong rent increases and housing shortages, Germany implemented a reform in 2001 to curtail rent increases. Based on linked housing-tenant data for Germany, this paper estimates panel OLS and quantile...
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Wer ist noch Mitglied in Gewerkschaften? : eine Panelanalyse für Westdeutschland
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Haggeney, Isabelle; Ernst, Michaela - 1998
War mit der Vereinigung Deutschlands ein starker Anstieg in der Mitgliederzahl der Gewerkschaften in Deutschland einhergegangen, erleben sie seit 1992 einen umso stärkeren Einbruch. Die von den Verbänden veröffentlichten Statistiken erlauben nur einen unzureichenden Rückschluss auf den...
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The performance of German firms in the business-related service sectors : a dynamic analysis
Nguyen-Van Phu; Kaiser, Ulrich; Laisney, François - 2000
We analyze the performance of firms in the German business-related services sector. A quarterly business survey provides the panel data base of our study. Firm performance is measured by the survey respondents' ordinal indication of their changes in total sales. We use a firstorder Markov chain...
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