Noch immer liegt der Anteil der ostdeutschen Jugendlichen, die die Schule ohne Abschluss verlassen, weit über dem westdeutschen Durchschnitt. Wir nutzen Daten auf Ebene der Landkreise und kreisfreien Städte und untersuchen, welche regionalen Einflussgrößen den Ost-West-Unterschied erklären...

A growing body of literature shows the importance of financial literacy in house-holds' financial decisions. However, fewer studies focus on understanding the determinants of financial literacy. Our paper fills this gap by analyzing a specific determinant, the educational system, to explain the...

In this paper it is argued that locus of control beliefs and preferences concerning state action negatively affect the formation of new firms in former socialist countries. For this purpose Kirzner's theory of costless entrepreneurship is reviewed and criticized. German reunification, in which...

Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individual-level data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects several dimensions of social capital. One...

This paper summarizes the findings of studies which investigate the determinants of wages in Germany, using data of the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP). The empirical analyses apply least squares estimates as well as the estimators developed by Altonji and Shakotko, Rev. Econ. Stud. 54, 437...

Die ostdeutschen Flächenländer, darunter auch der Freistaat Sachsen, weisen im öffentlichen Dienst einen deutlich höheren Personaleinsatz je Einwohner als die westdeutschen Flächenländer auf. Hieraus kann jedoch nicht ohne Weiteres auf entsprechende Einsparpotenziale geschlossen werden....

The aim of this paper is to analyze whether the formally equal qualifications acquired during a subsidized vocational education induce equal employment opportunities compared to regular vocational training. Using replacement matching on the basis of a statistical distance function, we are able...