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How inheritances shape wealth distributions : an international comparison

Bönke, Timm; Werder, Marten von; Westermeier, Christian - 2016

We use data from the European Household Finance and Consumption Survey in order to examine the distributional effect of intergenerational wealth transfers on the net worth distribution in 8 European countries and compare it to recent findings for the US. To do so, we resort to the decomposition...

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Dynastic inequality compared : multigenerational mobility in the US, the UK, and Germany

Neidhöfer, Guido; Stockhausen, Maximilian - 2016

Using harmonized household survey data, we analyse long run social mobility in the US, the UK, and Germany and test recent theories of multigenerational persistence of socio-economic status. In this country comparison setting we find evidence against Gregory Clark's "universal law of social...

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Business start-ups by the unemployed : an econometric analysis based on firm data

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reize, Frank - 1998

This study investigates firm survival and employment growth of start-ups by unemployed people in East and West Germany as promoted by the Work Support Act (so called bridging allowances). In 1994, the services provided were improved considerably, which led to a sharp increase in the number of...

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Die Arbeitserlaubnis als Instrument der Arbeitsmarktpolitik zur Steuerung internationaler Zuwanderung auf den Arbeitsmarkt

Velling, Johannes - 1995

Die Arbeitserlaubnis ist das wichtigste Instrument zur Kontrolle des Arbeitsmarktzugangs von ausländischen Immigranten. Die Erteilung einer allgemeinen Arbeitserlaubnis wird - unter Beachtung des Anwerbestopps - normalerweise nur dann vorgenommen, wenn kein Deutscher oder gleichberechtigter...

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Gesetzlich garantierte "Sabbaticals" - ein Modell für Deutschland? : Argumente, Befunde und Erfahrungen aus anderen europäischen Ländern

Wotschack, Philip; Samtleben, Claire; Allmendinger, Jutta - 2017

, berufliche Umorientierung, Kinderbetreuung, Pflege, Erholung oder Freizeit. Derzeit können Sabbaticals in Deutschland nur im … kann. Dazu werden auf der einen Seite Probleme und Handlungsfelder in der bestehenden Regelungspraxis in Deutschland … möglichen Einführung eines Rechtsanspruchs in Deutschland zu erwarten sind und Anforderungen an dessen institutionelle …

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The German vocational education and training system : its institutional configuration, strengths, and challenges

Solga, Heike; Protsch, Paula; Ebner, Christian; … - 2014

Germany is widely known for its high-quality vocational education and training (VET) system. The two key features of that system are (a) firm-based training programs accompanied by a schoolbased component (of one to two days per week), in which apprentices acquire upper secondary general...

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Does management matter in schools?

Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014

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Social capital and the spread of Covid-19 : insights from European countries

Bartscher, Alina Kristin; Seitz, Sebastian; Slotwinski, … - 2020

We explore the role of social capital in the spread of the recent Covid-19 pandemic in independent analyses for Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. We exploit within-country variation in social capital and Covid-19 cases to show that high-social-capital...

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A global decline in research productivity? : evidence from China and Germany

Boeing, Philipp; Hünermund, Paul - 2020

In a recent paper, Bloom et al. (2020) find evidence for a substantial decline in research productivity in the U.S. economy during the last 40 years. In this paper, we replicate their findings for China and Germany, using detailed firm-level data spanning three decades. Our results indicate that...

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The banking systems of Germany, the UK and Spain form a spatial perspective : lessons learned and what is to be done?

Flögel, Franz; Gärtner, Stefan - 2018

This paper re-visits the state of decentralised banking in Germany, Spain and the UK. The cross-country comparison we conducted has identified Germany as having the most decentralised banking system, followed by Spain and the UK, as expected. The development of regional and double-purpose banks,...

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