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DIW Discussion Papers 812 / 2008
The paper studies opinions and attitudes towards immigrants and minorities and their interactions with other barriers to minorities' economic integration. Specifically, we consider the minority experts' own perceptions about these issues, the veracities and repercussions of unfavorable attitudes of natives. Employing newly available data from the IZA Expert Opinion Survey 2007 we depict main trends ...
2008| Amelie Constant, Martin Kahanec, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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DIW Discussion Papers 809 / 2008
Our paper deals with modeling the effects of introducing a market-based tool for improving end-users' efficiency in an energy market which is already regulated through a cap-and-trade system for green house gas emissions and a quota system meant to improve competitiveness of energy produced using renewable resources. Our results show that the regulation of energy demand achieves its underlying objects ...
2008| Georg Meran, Nadine Wittmann
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DIW Discussion Papers 790 / 2008
In this paper we develop a dynamic structural life-cycle model of labor supply behavior which fully accounts for the effects of income tax and transfers on labor supply incentives. Additionally, the model recognizes the demand side driven rationing risk that might prevent individuals from realizing their optimal labor supply state, resulting in involuntary unemployment. We use this framework to study ...
2008| Peter Haan, Victoria Prowse, Arne Uhlendorff
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DIW Discussion Papers 781 / 2008
Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national distribution of skills and thereby equality in the receiving society. This paper suggests that skilled immigration ...
2008| Martin Kahanec, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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DIW Discussion Papers 760 / 2008
Vor zehn Jahren hat der deutsche Wissenschaftsrat mit seiner Forderung nach einer Verstärkung der akademischen Forschungsleistungen an den deutschen Wirtschaftsforschungsinstituten einen Regimewechsel eingeleitet. Der Anstoß wurde von der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, der Dachgesellschaft der Institute, aufgenommen und in den regelmäßigen Evaluationsprozess eingebracht. Er gründet auf der zwingenden Erkenntnis, ...
2008| Rolf Ketzler, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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DIW Discussion Papers 755 / 2007
This paper studies the determinants of naturalization among Turkish and ex-Yugoslav immigrants in Germany differentiating between actual and planned citizenship. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel, we measure the impact that integration and ethnicity indicators exert on the probability to naturalize beyond the standard individual and human capital characteristics. A robust finding is that German ...
2007| Amelie Constant, Liliya Gataullina, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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DIW Discussion Papers 752 / 2007
This paper assesses the dynamics of treatment effects arising from variation in the duration of training. We use German administrative data that have the extraordinary feature that the amount of treatment varies continuously from 10 days to 395 days (i.e. 13 months). This feature allows us to estimate a continuous dose-response function that relates each value of the dose, i.e. days of training, to ...
2007| Jochen Kluve, Hilmar Schneider, Arne Uhlendorff, Zhong Zhao
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DIW Discussion Papers 749 / 2007
This study analyzes the treatment effects of public training programs for the unemployed in Germany. Based on propensity score matching methods we extend the picture that has been sketched in previous studies by estimating treatment effects of medium-term programs for different sub-groups with respect to vocational education and age. Our results indicate that program participation has a positive impact ...
2007| Ulf Rinne, Marc Schneider, Arne Uhlendorff
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DIW Discussion Papers 727 / 2007
Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labor supply. This paper examines the strength of those attitudes using time diaries on childcare, food management and religious activities provided by the British Time Use Survey. Given the low labor force participation of females from ethnic minorities, the role of ethnicity in forming those attitudes and influencing time spent for "traditional" ...
2007| Anzelika Zaiceva, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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DIW Discussion Papers 726 / 2007
Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socio-economic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper extends the analysis of immigrant housing tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic identity as a potential influence on the homeownership decision, using a two-dimensional model of ethnic identity ...
2007| Amelie Constant, Rowan Roberts, Klaus F. Zimmermann