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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to study the determinants of naturalization of non-EU immigrant household heads with a fresh look at the role of integration and ethnicity. Design/methodology/approach - Employing data on immigrant household heads from the German Socioeconomic Panel differentiation is made among those who already have been naturalized, those who plan to take citizenship, and those ...
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International Journal of Manpower
30 (2009), 1/2, S. 70-82
| Amelie Constant, Liliya Gataullina, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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The global financial crisis has also hit Eastern Europe. Since the liberalisation and privatisation of the financial markets in the European Union's eastern states, the importance of the banking sector has grown, and the integration of these young financial markets in the global financial system has increased. The consequence is a greater vulnerability to crises. The new EU members cannot give sweeping ...
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Osteuropa
58 (2008), 12, S. 25-40
| Hella Engerer
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Russia's oil and natural gas exports are of great importance for Europe's energy supplies. The future extent and direction of supplies will depend on Russia's energy policy as well as its export strategies. The amount of exports mentioned in prognoses can only be achieved if energy efficiency in Russia increases, coal replaces natural gas, price controls are eliminated, and considerable investments ...
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Osteuropa
58 (2008), 11, S. 111-127
| Hella Engerer
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The extension of publicly provided or subsidized child care is currently one of the priorities of the political agenda in many European countries. In this article, the excess demand for subsidized child care slots in Germany is estimated using a partial observability model. The results show that there is considerable excess demand for child care for children aged less than 3 years in East and West ...
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Applied Economics
40 (2008), 10, S. 1217-1228
| Katharina Wrohlich
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This article analyzes the relationship between the usage of Internet-based technologies, different types of innovation, and performance at the firm level. Data for the empirical investigation originates from a sample of 7302 European enterprises. The empirical results show that Internet-based technologies were an important enabler of innovation in the year 2003. It was found that all studied types ...
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Research Policy
37 (2008), 8, S. 1317-1328
| Philipp Köllinger
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The objective of our paper is to analyze the prospects for LNG development in the US. In particular, we discuss LNG investment projects with respect to natural gas supply and demand, existing transmission infrastructure, and competing pipeline projects. At the same time potential competition between natural gas and coal in power generation is taken into account. We conclude that in the mid-term, LNG ...
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Energy Policy
36 (2008), 8, S. 3160-3168
| Sophia Rüster, Anne Neumann
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In this paper, we present a detailed and comprehensive complementarity model for computing market equilibrium values in the European natural gas system. Market players include producers and their marketing arms which we call "traders", pipeline and storage operators, marketers, LNG liquefiers, regasifiers, tankers, and three end-use consumption sectors. The economic behavior of producers, traders, ...
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Energy Policy
36 (2008), 7, S. 2385-2414
| Ruud Egging, Steven A. Gabriel, Franziska Holz, Jifang Zhuang
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We estimate the Sticky Information Phillips Curve model of Mankiw and Reis (2002) using survey expectations of professional forecasters from four major European economies. Our estimates imply that inflation expectations in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom are updated about once a year, while in Italy, about once each 6 months.
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Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
40 (2008), 7, S. 1513-1519
| Jörg Döpke, Jonas Dovern, Ulrich Fritsche, Jiri Slacalek
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Numerous studies proved that people tend to select partners that are similar to them with regard to many social and psychological variables. Even though this effect was also found for personality, results are inconsistent and reveal convergence coefficients ranging from negative over zero- to positive correlations. The present study thus aims to investigate personality congruence between spouses and ...
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Personality and Individual Differences
45 (2008), 6, S. 533-535
| Beatrice Rammstedt, Jürgen Schupp
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This paper investigates the link between the optimal level of non-financial firms' liquid assets and uncertainty. We develop a partial equilibrium model of precautionary demand for liquid assets showing that firms alter their liquidity ratio in response to changes in either macroeconomic or idiosyneratic uncertainty. We test this hypothesis using a panel of non-financial US firms drawn from the COMPUSTAT ...
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Economic Modelling
25 (2008), 5, S. 833-849
| Christopher F. Baum, Mustafa Caglayan, Andreas Stephan, Oleksandr Talavera