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SOEPpapers 990 / 2018
For several years, American studies of different disciplines have established the so-called Scrabble score method as a measure of the linguistic complexity of names. This method scores each name according to defined rules, similar to the popular board game Scrabble, in which each word receives a score defined by the sum of the numerical values of their characters. The numerical Scrabble scores allow ...
2018| Anna-Maria Balbach
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DIW Weekly Report 45 / 2018
Residential rental markets regulations have become an integral part of everyday life in Germany as in almost all other countries. The strong house price and rent increases over the past decade have fueled social debate on this issue. Tenant movements worldwide are demanding tighter regulations and advocating for affordable housing as a central civil right. In contrast, those skeptical of regulation ...
2018| Konstantin A. Kholodilin, Jan Philip Weber, Steffen Sebastian
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by Konstantin Kholodilin, Jan Philip Weber und Steffen Sebastian
Residential rental markets regulations have become an integral part of everyday life in Germany as in almost all other countries. The strong house price and rent increases over the past decade have fueled social debate on this issue. Tenant movements worldwide are demanding tighter regulations and advocating for affordable housing ...
07.11.2018| Konstantin A. Kholodilin
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Refereed essays Web of Science
We analyze whether start-up rates in different industries systematically change with business cycle variables. Using a unique data set at the industry level, we mostly find correlations that are consistent with counter-cyclical influences of the business cycle on entries in both innovative and non-innovative industries. Entries into the large-scale industries, including the innovative part of manufacturing, ...
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Journal of Business Venturing
33 (2018), 6, S. 742-761
| Alexander Konon, Michael Fritsch, Alexander S. Kritikos
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Refereed essays Web of Science
We advance the literature on political budget cycles by testing for cycles in expenditures for elections to the legislative and the executive branches. Using municipal data, we identify cycles independently for the two branches, evaluate the effects of overlaps, and account for general year effects. We find sizable effects on expenditures before legislative elections and even larger effects before ...
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Public Choice
177 82018), 1-2, S. 1-27
| Dirk Foremny, Ronny Freier, Marc-Daniel Moessinger, Mustafa Yeter
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Non-refereed Articles
In this paper, we study the employment of workers from Central, Eastern and Southeastern European (CESEE) EU Member States in Austria after the Eastern enlargement of the European Union. To prevent a sudden rush of immigrants into the labor market, Austria opted for a transition period during which immigration remained restricted. We will show that these restrictions had the anticipated effect; while ...
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Focus on European Economic Integration
(2018), 3, S. 113-122
| Julia Schmieder, Andrea Weber
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DIW Discussion Papers 1760 / 2018
This paper studies the extent to which working couples can insure one another against cyclical fluctuations in the labor market and examines the implications of joint household decision-making for cyclical fluctuations in the unemployment rate. For this purpose, I provide a dynamic life-cycle model of households that make joint savings and job search decisions in the presence of aggregate shocks. I ...
2018| Haomin Wang