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Millions of refugees made their way to Europe between 2014 and 2015, with over one million arriving in Germany alone … administrative data on refugee allocation and provides an evaluation of the short-run consequences of the refugee inflow. Our … identification strategy exploits that a scramble for accommodation determined the assignment of refugees to German counties resulting …
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Germany. The findings suggest that, on average, asylum seekers have 22 percent more years of schooling - the indicator used … indicators of individual and parental human capital influence short-run integration outcomes in Germany, while work experience in …
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Millions of refugees made their way to Europe between 2014 and 2015, with over one million arriving in Germany alone … administrative data on refugee allocation and provides an evaluation of the short-run consequences of the refugee inflow. Our … identification strategy exploits that a scramble for accommodation determined the assignment of refugees to German counties resulting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011876117
This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first...
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The study analyses data collected among a group of young male refugees who participated in a randomized experiment …. Refugees were randomly assigned to a soccer project, which aimed at facilitating labour market integration, or to a control …
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In a large natural field experiment, we explore the effect of providing donors with the opportunity to choose the target country for their donations. We find that only a small fraction of donors use the option, which might reflect a reluctance to consider tradeoffs when those concern important,...
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This contribution empirically analyses the individual determinants of tax rate preferences. For that purpose we make use of the representative German General Social Survey (ALLBUS) that offers data on the individual attitudes toward progressive, proportional, and regressive taxation. Our...
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This paper studies the construction of social preferences in the lab. Experimental subjects have the opportunity to donate to a charity and to allocate money in a conventional dictator game. The results show that charitable donations and dictator game allocations are positively correlated. The...
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We investigate the dynamic effects of a charitable lottery and an income tax on donations. The analysis is based on a two-round dictator game with the subject’s charity of choice as recipient and additional incentives in the first round only. The immediate effect of a charitable lottery leads...
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We investigate the dynamic effects of a charitable lottery and an income tax on donations. The analysis is based on a two-round dictator game with the subject’s charity of choice as recipient and additional incentives in the first round only. The immediate effect of a charitable lottery leads...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010405383