Das Papier analysiert die Auswirkungen von Signalen über das erreichte Bildungsniveau von (Spät-)Aussiedlern und 'übrigen Deutschen'. Die Analyse beruht auf der Sorting-Theorie mit produktivitätserhöhenden Effekten der Bildung. Aus dieser theoretischen Analyse folgen vier Hypothesen,...

Decisions to donate time or money for charitable purposes are typically seen as make-or-buy decisions, implying that there should be a clear distinction between individuals engaging in one of these two forms of giving and that this distinction should be somehow linked to opportunity costs. But...

This paper uses the Austrian Social Security Register (ASSD) to explore what information firms infer from the three common types of displacement: individual layoffs, individuals displaced due to a closure and individuals displaced due to a mass layoff. I bring together two strands of the...