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Short term living conditions and long term prospects of immigrant children in Germany
Frick, Joachim R. - 2000
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Short term living conditions and long term prospects of immigrant children in Germany
Frick, Joachim R.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2000
zuzurechnen. Daher muss jede Analyse der Lebensbedingungen von Immigranten-Kindern im Vergleich zu in Deutschland geborenen …Der im Ausland geborene Teil der in Deutschland lebenden Bevölkerung besteht aus Ausländern und Aussiedlern, die aus … osteuropäischen Ländern nach Deutschland emigriert sind. Während die erste Gruppe mit Problemen konfrontiert ist, die aus dem typisch …
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A nation-wide laboratory: Examining trust and trustworthiness by integrating behavioral experiments into representative surveys
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; von Rosenbladt, Bernhard; … - 2003
Methodik mit einer Untersuchung über Vertrauen und Vertrauenswürdigkeit in Deutschland, bei der eine repräsentative Umfrage mit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300553
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Late-Life Decline in Well-Being across Adulthood in Germany, the UK, and the US: Something Is Seriously Wrong at the End of Life
Gerstorf, Denis; Ram, Nilam; Mayraz, Guy; Hidajat, Mira; … - 2010
Throughout adulthood and old age, levels of well-being appear to remain relatively stable. However, evidence is emerging that late in life well-being declines considerably. Using long-term longitudinal data of deceased participants in national samples from Germany, the UK, and the US, we examine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600928
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A Nation-Wide Laboratory: Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Surveys
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; von Rosenbladt, Bernhard; … - 2003
Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and self-selection biases. The usefulness of survey data is limited by measurement error and by the questionability of their behavioral relevance. Here we present a method integrating interactive experiments and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262013
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The Immigrant Welfare Effect: Take-Up or Eligibility?
Bird, Edward J.; Kayser, Hilke; Frick, Joachim R.; … - 1999
Are immigrants on welfare because they are more likely to be eligible or because they are more likely to claim benefits for which they are eligible? The answer is politically important, but because most current research on immigration and welfare is based on data from the U.S., the answer is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262289
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Overtime Work, Overtime Compensation and the Distribution of Economic Well-Being: Evidence for West Germany and Great Britain
Pannenberg, Markus; Wagner, Gert G. - 2001
Using panel data for West Germany and Great Britain, we show that there are striking differences in overtime work and overtime compensation in the two countries in the 1990s. Our estimates reveal that the observed overtime patterns affect both the evolution of the monthly labour earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262523
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A nation-wide laboratory : Examining trust and trustworthiness by integrating behavioral experiments into representative surveys
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; von Rosenbladt, Bernhard; … - 2002
Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and self-selection biases. The usefulness of survey data is limited by measurement error and by the questionability of their behavioral relevance. Here we present a method integrating interactive experiments and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276356
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Children's School Placement in Germany : Does Kindergarten Attendance Matter?
Spieß, Christa Katharina; Büchel, Felix; Wagner, Gert G. - 2003
The positive effects of early childhood programs on children's school success have been demonstrated in the literature. However, most studies were completed in the U.S.A., where early childhood programs vary widely, based on differing auspice, regulation, cost, and other factors. In European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276749
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Immigrants in Two Modern Nations: Characteristics of the Foreign and Native Born Populations in Germany and the United States
Frick, Joachim R.; Smeeding, Timothy M.; Wagner, Gert G. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 68 (1999) 2, pp. 297-307
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011475539