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Sinkende Bildungsrenditen durch Bildungsreformen? : Evidenz aus Mikrozensus und SOEP
Göggel, Kathrin (contributor) - 2007
Die Bildungsreformen der sechziger Jahre sollten das Bildungsniveau der Westdeutschen anheben. Die Analyse der Daten des Mikrozensus weist darauf hin, dass die durch die Bildungsreformen intendierte Bildungsexpansion schon vor 1960 begonnen hat. Mit dem Conditional Mean Independence Ansatz...
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Inequality of educational opportunities and the role of learning intensity : evidence from a quasi-experiment in Germany
Camarero Garcia, Sebastian - 2018
Over the 2000s, many federal states in Germany shortened the duration of secondary school by one year while keeping the curriculum unchanged. Exploiting quasi-experimental variation due to the staggered introduction of this reform allows me to identify the causal effect of increased learning...
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Regulation of pharmaceutical prices : evidence from a reference price reform in Denmark
Kaiser, Ulrich; Mendez, Susan J.; Rønde, Thomas - 2010
On April 1, 2005, Denmark changed the way references prices, a main determinant of reimbursements for pharmaceutical purchases, are calculated. The previous reference prices, which were based on average EU prices, were substituted to minimum domestic prices. Novel to the literature, we estimate...
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Price indices for information and communication technology industries : an application to the German PC market
Moch, Dietmar - 2001
index. The estimation confirms the importance of quality adjustment since the decline of average prices at 7 percent p.a. is … substantially lower, thus overestimating computer prices and inflation. When the hedonic index for German computer prices is …Die Berechnung von Preisindizes zeigt für Deutschland ein ähnliches Bild wie in den USA. Die starken …
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Economic effects of VAT reform in Germany
Boeters, Stefan; Böhringer, Christoph; Büttner, Thiess; … - 2006
In the tax policy debate, differentiation of value-added taxes is often justified by distributional concerns. Our quantitative analysis for Germany indicates that such concerns are misplaced. We find that the abolition of VAT differentiation has only negligible redistributive effects. Instead,...
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A macroeconomic model for the evaluation of labor market reforms
Krebs, Tom; Scheffel, Martin - 2010
We develop a tractable macroeconomic model with employment risk and labor market search in order evaluate the effects of labor market reform on unemployment, growth, and welfare. The model has a large number of risk-averse households who can invest in risk-free physical capital and risky human...
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Workers' skill level and information technology : evidence from German service firms
Falk, Martin; Seim, Katja - 1999
This paper analyses the link between human capitaland information technology(IT ) in the service production process. The analysis is based on 1994 cross-sectional data for 1929 German. Firms drawn from the first wave of the Mannheim Service Innovation Panel (MIP-S). Factor demand functions are...
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Offshoring and labor income risk
Hogrefe, Jan; Yao, Yao - 2012
This paper analyzes the impact increased offshoring has on labor income risk. It is therefore distinct from a large number of studies explaining the level effects of globalization on the labor market in that it takes a look at effects on second moments, i.e. the variance of incomes. It provides...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009521124
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Suchmaschinen unter der Lupe : Informationsherrschaft und ihre Schranken
Peitz, Martin; Schweitzer, Heike - 2016
einer Regulierung gestellt. Die "Informationsherrschaft" hat dabei verschiedene Seiten: Zum einen kann die unbegrenzte … diese Interessen gegeneinander abwägen. Mit der "Regulierung" gegenläufiger informationeller Interessen obliegt ihnen eine … öffentliche Regulierungsfunktion zuzuweisen. In diesem Artikel sprechen wir uns gegen eine solche ex-ante-Regulierung aus. Das …
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Existenzgründungen : ein Weg zur Beschäftigungsförderung?
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm (contributor) - 2005
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