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Germany has recently made extensive reforms in its tertiary education system. Traditional degrees are being replaced by …
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, to the best of our knowledge for the first time for Germany, gregariousness and social interaction at the workplace and …
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This paper develops and implements a new benchmarking approach for labor market regions. Based on panel data for regions, we use nonparametric matching techniques to account for observed labor market characteristics and for spatial proximity. As the benchmark, we estimate the counterfactual...
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Does the administrative organization of police affect crime? In answering this question, we focus on the reorganization … of local police agencies. Specifically, we study the effects police force reallocation via station closures has on local … crime. We do this by exploiting a quasiexperiment where a reform substantially reduced the number of police stations …
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Policy makers often try to optimize local law enforcement by reorganizing police forces. We study the effects of police … substantially reduced the number of police stations. Combining a matching strategy with an event-study design, we do not find …
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The aim of this study is the analysis of so called socially responsible investments (SRI). First, the performance of SRI equity investment funds and equity indices is investigated using Jensen's alpha as performance measure. The analysis considers market timing strategies of the fund management...
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Panel (LPP). The LPP is a longitudinal and representative employer-employee data set covering establishments in Germany and …
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Most previous results on determinants of inventive performance are biased because inventive performance is measured with error. This measurement error causes attenuation bias. More specifically, for example age and education as drivers of patenting success have biased coefficients and too high...
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This paper shows that earnings losses after unemployment increase with age. First, older employees start out with relatively high earnings in comparison to employees without employment interruptions several years before the non-employment spell. This earnings advantage turns into a strong...
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