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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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The treatment effect of attending a high-quality school and the influence of unobservables : conference paper

Freier, Ronny; Storck, Johanna - 2013

This paper studies the effect of attending a high-quality secondary school on subsequent educational outcomes. The analysis is based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study in which we observe children when they make their secondary school choice (between ages 10-12) and later when...

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Short term living conditions and long term prospects of immigrant children in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2000

In Germany the foreign born population is made up of foreigners and so called "ethnic Germans" who migrated from eastern European countries to Germany. While the first group is confronted with problems arising from the typical German concept of ethnicity and citizenship, the latter are entitled...

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Government-made house price bubbles? : austerity, homeownership, rental, and credit liberalization policies and the "irrational exuberance" on housing markets

Kholodilin, Konstantin; Kohl, Sebastian; Müller, Florian - 2023

Housing bubbles and crashes are catastrophic events for economies, implying enormous destruction of housing wealth, financial default risks, construction unemployment, and business cycle downturns. This paper investigates whether governmental housing policies can affect economies’ propensity...

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Speculative price bubbles in urban housing markets in Germany

Kholodilin, Konstantin; Michelsen, Claus; Ulbricht, Dirk - 2014

The surge in the German house prices starting in 2010 raised fears about the emergence of a speculative bubble. Given a local nature of housing markets, it is not clear to what extent the bubble, if any, is spread across different cities. In this paper, we test for speculative house price...

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Macroeconomic effects of rental housing regulations : the case of Germany in 1950-2015

Kholodilin, Konstantin; Licheron, Julien - 2017

Despite rather skeptical attitude of the economists toward the state intervention in the housing markets, the policy makers and general public typically are supporting it. As a result, in many European countries, since World War I the rent and eviction controls as well as social housing policies...

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Gaining access to housing in Germany : the foreign minority experience

Drever, Anita I.; Clark, William A. V. - 2002

Housing is a critical component of household well being and the extent to which minority households have achieved parity with Germans is a measure of the extent to which this population is integrated into the larger German society. Specifically we examine whether the housing conditions for...

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Explaining attitudes towards immigration : new pieces to the puzzle

Tucci, Ingrid (contributor) - 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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Networks and selection in international migration to Spain

Neubecker, Nina; Smolka, Marcel; Steinbacher, Anne - 2013 - This version: May 2013

effect on the ratio of high-skilled to low-skilled migrants. Simplifying restrictions on substitutability across destinations …

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Does the behaviour of myopic addicts support the rational addiction model? : a simulation

Frank, Björn - 2002

Becker and Murphy (1988) constructed, in a well-known paper, a model of rational addiction in which people solve a dynamic optimization problem, choose an optimal timepath of drug consumption and thereby maximize lifetime utility. The model leads to the hypothesis that future consumption is a...

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