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Societal Shifts and Changed Patterns of Poverty

Immigration and Heterogeneous Labor in Western Germany - A Labor Market Classification Based on Nonparametric Estimation

Developing an immigration policy for Germany on the basis of a nonparametric labor market classification

Clean Technology Innovations in Germany: Human Capital Accumulation under Heterogeneous Knowledge Inputs - Data and Methodology Report

This report describes the data and methodology of a self-administered survey of German inventors in three high-technology fields: clean technology, nanotechnology and mechanical elements. Responses were received from 1,932 inventors responsible for 14,873 EP patent applications between 1978 and 2010. The survey data contain potentially important information on individual characteristics such as professional ...

The Effect of Teenage Employment on Character Skills, Expectations and Occupational Choice Strategies

A growing body of research suggests that, even after controlling for cognitive abilities, personality predicts economic success in later life. The learning environment at school focuses on knowledge and cognitive skills. The transmission of character skills, however, is not at the center of attention. Leisure activities as informal learning activities outside of school may affect the formation of skills. ...

Tenancy Law Reform Act and Length of Tenancy Discount: Heterogenous Effects in a West German Household Sample

Compared to other European countries rental apartments dominate the German housing market. Policymakers and a large part of the population alike worry about the amount of affordable living space. Especially in metropolitan areas a high demand for living space exists and has been leading to a shortage and as a consequence to increasing rents. In 2001 the German government passed the Tenancy Law Reform ...

Die Bildungschancen von Aussiedlerkindern

Mit der Zuwanderung der Aussiedler war zumindest partiell die Erwartung verbunden, dass sie – anders als die zuvor und parallel zuwandernden nicht-deutschen Migranten – leichter in der aufnehmenden Gesellschaft aufgehen würden. Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht diese Frage im Hinblick auf die Bildungschancen der Kinder der Aussiedler im Vergleich mit denen anderer Migrantenkinder und denen der autochthonen ...

The Response of Household Saving to the Large Shock of German Reunification

German reunification was a large, unexpected shock for East Germans. Exploiting German reunification as a natural experiment, I analyze the validity of the life-cycle consumption model. I derive three stylized features concerning the saving behavior of East versus West Germans after reunification: (i) East Germans have higher saving rates than West Germans; (ii) this East-West gap is increasing in ...

On preferences for being self-employed

The concept of procedural utility assumes that agents not only receive utility from outcomes but also attach an independent value to the procedures that lead to these outcomes. This paper analyzes whether the preferences that underlie procedural utility are homogeneous using the case of independence at the workplace. I exploit the event of German reunification to assign preferences for independence ...

Participation Following Sudden Access

The German reunification experiment provided sudden access to previously unavailable financial products, supported by knowledgeable practitioners. This setting offers new perspectives on participation, inertia, and product diffusion. Controlling for characteristics, East Germans experienced a jump in securities participation to a level comparable to West Germans’ participation immediately following ...