innovations. We look at school districts in Michigan and their participation in a public school choice program launched in 1996 …. Districts' participation decisions are modelled as simultaneous discrete choice decisions using a spatial latent variable model …. Strong effects are found saying that lagged adoptions of neighbors positively affect the current probability of participation …

Germany. The findings suggest that, on average, asylum seekers have 22 percent more years of schooling - the indicator used … indicators of individual and parental human capital influence short-run integration outcomes in Germany, while work experience in …

; Germany …

immigrants. -- Immigrants ; employment programs ; evaluation ; decomposition of effects ; Germany …

immigrants from the "recruitment countries" of south and southeast Europe, who arrived in Germany mainly in the 1970s to fill … labor shortages. They are the largest immigrant group in Germany and can be reliably identified via ethnic name coding …, there are no differences in patenting when resources are taken into account. The lower participation of immigrant …

“generation 1.5” (migrants arriving as children) and the second generation. It is stronger for women with low education and for … transmission ; Germany …

welfare recipients in Germany. In particular, we investigate whether program effects differ between both groups and what might … ; decomposition ; matching ; Germany …