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This paper investigates the effects of tuition fees on the university enrollment and location decision of high school graduates in Germany. After a Federal Constitutional Court decision in 2005, 7 out of 16 German federal states introduced tuition fees for higher education. In the empirical...
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We analyse the effect of public Research and Development (R&D) subsidies on private sector innovativeness for a cross-section of East German firms applying different matching estimations, which are primary based on an estimate of a propensity score. To do so, we use a until now unexplored...
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Die vorliegende Studie setzt sich mit der Frage auseinander, inwieweit die heute in der Forschungs- und Innovationspolitik (F&I-Politik) Deutschlands vorzufindende Arbeitsteilung der Gebietskörperschaften der Erreichung der Ziele dieser Politik förderlich bzw. abträglich ist. Sie orientiert...
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We analyse the nature of German trade-FDI linkages within the EU27 based on a simultaneous equation gravity approach for imports, exports, in- and outward FDI stocks. We adopt both a Hausman-Taylor (1981) IV approach (3SLS-GMM) and rival non-IV estimation (the system extension to the Fixed...
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This paper analyses the causal linkages between regional labour market variables and internal migration flows among German states between 1991-2006. We adopt a Panel VAR approach to identify the feedback effects among the variables and analyse the dynamic properties of the system through...
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This paper analyses the impact of public subsidies on private sector research and development (R&D) activity for East German firms. Using propensity score matching, our empirical results indicate that subsidized firms indeed show a higher level of R&D intensity and a higher probability for...
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Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die Rolle von intersektoralen FuE-Spillovereffekten für das sektorale Produktivitätswachstum anhand eines Datensatzes für zwölf OECD-Volkswirtschaften im Zeitraum 1980 bis 2004. Im Rahmen der empirischen Analyse werden mithilfe von panelökonometrischen...
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Die Gemeinschaftsaufgabe Verbesserung der regionalen Wirtschaftsstruktur (GRW) ist das zentrale wirtschaftspolitische Instrument zur Förderung entwicklungsschwacher Regionen in Deutschland seit Ende der 1960er Jahre. Seit der deutschen Wiedervereinigung kommt es zudem flächendeckend in den...
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Applied econometrics has recently emphasized the identification of causal parameters for policy analysis. This revolution has yet to fully propagate to the field of regional science. We examine the scope for application of the matching approach - part of the modern applied econometrics toolkit -...
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