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Explaining Attitudes towards Immigration: New Pieces to the Puzzle

Tucci, Ingrid - 2005

This paper deals with two hypotheses about factors influencing attitudes toward immigration in Germany. The first looks … at how individuals? perceptions of their financial and job situation affect public opinion on immigration. The second … hypothesis tests how these attitudes are affected by the beneficial/detrimental effect of immigration on the individual and …

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The effects of labor supply shocks on labor market outcomes: Evidence from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Mansour, Hani - 2010

Since September 2000, as a result of mobility restrictions, the supply of Palestinian workers competing for local jobs in the West Bank has increased by about fifty percent. This paper takes advantage of this unique natural experiment to study the effects of labor supply shocks on labor market...

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The effect of migration on careers of natives: Evidence from long-term care

Haan, Peter; Wnuk, Izabela - 2024

This paper examines the effect of increasing foreign staffing on the labor market outcomes of native workers in the German long-term care sector. Using administrative social security data covering the universe of long-term care workers and policy-induced exogenous variation, we find that...

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Culture and gender allocation of tasks: Source country characteristics and the division of non-market work among US-immigrants

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Comey, Matthew; … - 2020

traditionally. These results are robust to controls for immigration cohort, years since migration, and other own and spouse …

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Corporate Donations to the Arts: Philanthropy or Advertising?

Frank, Björn; Geppert, Kurt - 2002

This paper is an attempt to provide evidence on two questions: Why do companies sponsor art events, and where exactly does the money go? We analyse data collected on the revenue structure of cultural institutions in Berlin and Hamburg. This data set not only tells us where the money goes, it...

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Optimal Fiscal Policy in an Economy Facing Socio-Political Instability

Ghate, Chetan; Le, Quan Vu; Zak, Paul J. - 2002

We present a model of optimal government policy when policy choices may exacerbate socio-political instability (SPI). We show that optimal policy that takes into account SPI transforms a standard concave growth model into a model with both a poverty trap and endogenous growth. The resulting...

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Outsourcing and Firm-level Performance

Görzig, Bernd; Stephan, Andreas - 2002

Using firm-level panel data from the German cost structure survey over the period 1992 to 2000, our empirical analysis shows that firms that increased material inputs relative to internal labor costs performed better in terms of gross operating surplus than other firms. However, firms that...

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Outsourcing and the demand for low-skill labour in German manufacturing : new evidence

Geishecker, Ingo - 2002

This paper analyses how international outsourcing has affected the relative demand for low skilled workers in Germany during the 1990s. In contrast to previous empirical work, the single elements of the input-output-matrix are used to disentangle international outsourcing and trade in final...

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Do leading indicators help to predict business cycle turning points in Germany?

Fritsche, Ulrich; Kouzine, Vladimir - 2002

Using a binary reference series based on the dating procedure of Artis, Kontolemis and Osborn (1997) different procedures for predicting turning points of the German business cycles were tested. Specifically, a probit model as proposed by Estrella and Mishkin (1997) as well as Markov-switching...

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Assessing the contribution of public capital to private production

Stephan, Andreas - 2002

Using time-series cross-section data from the manufacturing sector of the 11West German ?Bundesländer? (Federal States) from 1970 to 1996, I examine the impact of public capital on private production. My econometric analysis explicitly takes into account four of the most frequent specification...

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