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Life Cycle and Cohort Productivity in Economic Research : The Case of Germany

Rauber, Michael - 2009

We examine the research productivity of German academic economists over their life cycles. It turns out that the career … life-cycles of younger German economists are hump-shaped and closely resemble the life cycles identified for U ….S. economists, whereas the life-cycles of older German economists are much flatter. Finally, we find that not only productivity, but …

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Evaluation of Researchers : A Life Cycle Analysis of German Academic Economists

Rauber, Michael - 2006

academic economists, we first show that research productivity crucially depends on career age and vintage. Based on the …

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Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship

Kerr, William - 2017

We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United States cluster in specific business sectors. For example, the concentration of Korean self-employment in dry cleaners is 34 times greater than other immigrant groups, and...

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The Old-Boy Network and the Quality of Entrepreneurs

Bac, Mehmet; Inci, Eren - 2021

We study a model of network formation and start-up financing with endogenous entrepreneurial type distribution. A hub firm admits members to its network based on signals about entrepreneurs’ types. Network membership is observable, which allows lenders to offer different interest rates to...

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Early-Life Circumstances Predict Measures of Trust Among Adults : Evidence from Hunger Episodes in Post-War Germany

Hörl, Maximiliane - 2016

Can a major shock in childhood permanently shape trust? We consider a hunger episode in Germany after WWII and construct a measure of hunger exposure from official data on caloric rations set monthly by the occupying forces providing regional and temporal variation. We correlate hunger exposure...

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Surfing Alone? The Internet and Social Capital - Evidence from an Unforeseeable Technological Mistake

Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2014

Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individual-level data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects several dimensions of social capital. One...

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A Different Look at Lenin's Legacy : Trust, Risk, Fairness and Cooperativeness in the Two Germanies

Heineck, Guido; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2021

What are the long-term effects of Communism on economically relevant notions such as social trust? To answer this question, we use the reunification of Germany as a natural experiment and study the post-reunification trajectory of convergence with regard to individuals’ trust and risk, as well...

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Identity and Entrepreneurship

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lüdemann, Elke - 2021

We incorporate the concept of social identity into a stylized model of occupational choice and analyze whether an individual’s identity affects his or her decision to become an entrepreneur. We argue that an entrepreneurial identity results from an individual’s socialization. This could be...

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Boon or Bane? Others' Unemployment, Well-Being and Job Insecurity

Clark, Andrew; Knabe, Andreas; Raetzel, Steffen - 2021

The social norm of unemployment suggests that aggregate unemployment reduces the well-being of the employed, but has a far smaller effect on the unemployed. We use German panel data to reproduce this standard result, but then suggest that the appropriate distinction may not be between employment...

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Ideology and Dissent Among Economists : The Joint Economic Forecast of German Economic Research Institutes

Ngo, Ha Quyen - 2015

Economists, and also economic research institutes, differ in their attitudes towards desirability of economic policies …

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