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Network neutrality and consumer discrimination: Comparing ISP's GTCs and DPI application

Grove, Nico; Agic, Damir; Sedlmeir, Joachim - 2012

Network neutrality and alleged discriminatory practices on the part of ISPs regarding the transmission of Internet data packets has been the subject of notable scholarly discussion and appears to be a widespread phenomenon. However, it is noteworthy that actual consumer discrimination has only...

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Give them a break! Did activation of young welfare recipients overshoot in Germany? (A regression discontinuity analysis)

Wolff, Joachim; Nivorozhkin, Anton - 2012

In Germany, due to special rules 15- to 24-year-old welfare recipients, registered with Public Employment Office, are highly targeted by mandatory activation policies. This paper investigates the effects of the special rules in terms of enhancing the (re-)employment probability, increasing...

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Impact of Benefit Sanctions on Unemployment Outflow - Evidence from German Survey Data

Hohenleitner, Ingrid; Hillmann, Katja - 2012

In course of the ''Hartz IV'' reform implementation in January 2005, Germany has tightened unemployment benefit sanctions. In addition, the regulations with respect to job offer acceptance have been strengthened radically. As non-compliant behavior is supposed to entail benefit sanctions, we...

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The Dynamics of Cooperation in Group Lending - A Microfinance Experiment

Werner, Peter - 2010

We conduct a microfinance experiment in which subjects are jointly responsible for credit repayments and decide repeatedly about the effort put into risky investment projects. Although average effort levels are generally high, we find that moral hazard problems still persist among borrowers....

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How does Early Child Care affect Child Development? Learning from the Children of German Unification

Felfe, Christina; Lalive, Rafael - 2010

This paper studies the role of early center-based child care (age 0-3) for the development of a wide range of skills. The identification strategy uses historical variation in regional child care offer rates in Germany to address selection into center based care. While differences in parenting...

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Angebotsinduzierung und Mitnahmeeffekte im Rahmen der Riester-Rente. Eine empirische Analyse

Pfarr, Christian; Schneider, Udo - 2010

In 2001, the voluntary additional Riester pension scheme was implemented in Germany. Financial subsidies should … incentivize people to increase their private pension savings. In this paper, we hypothesize that these publicly subsidized savings … Socio-economic Panel we analyze the key determinants in the choice of a Riester-pension. We find greater participation of …

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Social Jealousy and Stigma: Negative Externalities of Social Assistance Payments in Germany

Kassenböhmer, Sonja C.; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2010

This paper examines the role of social assistance payments (SAP or Sozialhilfe) in determining levels of life satisfaction in Germany using the SOEP 1995-2004. We find strong evidence that individuals in Germany are negatively influenced by increased SAP payments controlling for income, whether...

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Short-term Training Programs for Immigrants: Do Effects Differ from Natives and Why?

Thomsen, Stephan L.; Aldashev, Alisher; Walter, Thomas - 2010

We evaluate the effects of different short-term training programs on the employment chances of immigrant and native welfare recipients in Germany. In particular, we investigate whether program effects differ between both groups and what might cause these potential differences. In a first step,...

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Social Safety Nets, Economic Freedom and Public Policy

Kaur, Simrit - 2009

What is the relationship between social welfare, safety nets and economic freedom? Arguably, if economic freedom (EF) promotes growth and if it trickles down EF promotes larger freedoms (e.g. a healthy and productive life, free from want and deprivation). However, higher EF by definition entails...

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Moral Hazard and the Composition of Transfers: Theory with an Application to Foreign Aid

Ouattara, Bazoumana; Amegashie, J. Atsu; Strobl, Eric - 2009

The paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of a donor's choice of the composition of unrestricted and in-kind/restricted transfers to a recipient and how this composition is adjusted in response to changes in the moral hazard behavior of the recipient. In-kind or restricted...

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