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Language acquisition: refugees nearly achieve proficiency level of other migrants

Whether they’re looking to participate in social life, enter the German labor market, or obtain relevant training certificates, learning German is a critical part of integration for the majority of refugees—and yet only a handful of studies have examined their language acquisition patterns and skill levels. The IAB-SOEP Migration Sample, which was collected by the Institute for Employment ...

Early life circumstances predict measures of trust attitudes among adults

BAMS is a joint seminar by the DIW Berlin, the Hertie School of Governance, the HU Berlin and the WZB.

2015

Conference review: „Regulatory challenges in digital markets: privacy“

Titled “Regulatory Challenges in Digital Markets: Privacy”, the annual conference of the Leibniz ScienceCampus “Berlin Centre for Consumer Policies” (BCCP) took place on June 17 in Humboldt University Berlin’s Senate Hall. The four panels of the conference featured several prominent figures from science and politics, including Hal Varian (Chief Economist, Google), Gerd ...

Refuting the Cliché of the Distrustful Manager

Although trust is fundamental to social and organizational functioning, the media often portray managers as distrusting, suggesting that distrust of others is a typical personality variable of successful leaders. This study puts the cliché of the distrustful manager to the test. Both self-report data (N = 32,926) and behavioral data (N = 924) from the German Socio-Economic Panel refute this cliché. ...

On the Exposure of the BRIC Countries to Global Economic Shocks

The financial crisis led to a deep recession in many industrial countries. While large emerging countries recovered relatively quickly from the financial crisis, their performance deteriorated in the last years, despite the modest recovery in advanced economies. The higher divergence of business cycles is closely linked to the Chinese transformation. During the crisis, the Chinese fiscal stimulus prevented ...

Local Loop Unbundling in the UK Does Not Affect Broadband Penetration - but It Does Lead to Better Service

Under an open access policy, incumbent broadband providers in all EU countries are required to let new market entrants access their networks through bitstream or local loop unbundling (LLU). This type of regulatory provision aims to increase competition among all broadband providers, and is strongly recommended in markets where the prohibitively high cost of setting up a distribution network means ...

All Consumers Can Benefit from an Open Access Policy in the Broadband Market: Five Questions to Mattia Nardotto

Intangible Capital: Complement or Substitute in the Creation of Public Goods?

This paper tests whether intangible capital is a substitute or, to some degree, a complement to standard inputs in the production process. The analysis is conducted for public sectors in which governmental institutions are directly responsible for both, efficiently producing public goods as well as for the investment in new production factors. Knowing the substitutability of inputs is important for ...

Local loop unbundling in the UK does not affect boadband penetration - but it does lead to better service

Under an open access policy, incumbent broadband providers in all EU countries are required to let new market entrants access their networks through bitstream or local loop unbundling (LLU). This type of regulatory provision aims to increase competition among all broadband providers, and is strongly recommended in markets where the prohibitively high cost of setting up a distribution network means ...