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Bauer, Thomas K.; Dross, Patrick J.; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2003

Using data for the 1990 ?s,this paper examines the role of sheepskin effects in the returns to education for Japan ….These results could be explained by the particular recruitment system of large firms in Japan, which makes university diploma as a …

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Distant Event, Local Effects? Fukushima and the German Housing Market

Bauer, Thomas K.; Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2013

The Fukushima Daiichi accident in Japan in March 2011 caused a fundamental change in Germany’s energy policy which led … to the immediate shut down of nearly half of its nuclear power plants. This paper uses data from Germany’s largest …

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Distant Event, Local Effects? Fukushima and the German Housing Market

Bauer, Thomas K.; Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2013

The Fukushima Daiichi accident in Japan in March 2011 caused a fundamental change in Germany's energy policy which led … to the immediate shut down of nearly half of its nuclear power plants. This paper uses data from Germany's largest …

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The Demand for High-skilled Workers and Immigration Policy

Bauer, Thomas K.; Kunze, Astrid - 2003

This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the demand for high-skilled workers using a new firm data set, the IZA International Employer Survey 2000. Our results suggest that while workers from EU-countries are mainly complements to domestic high-skilled workers, workers from non-EU countries...

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Real and Nominal Wage Rigidities and the Rate of Inflation: Evidence from West German Micro Data

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bonin, Holger; Sunde, Uwe - 2004

The paper examines real and nominal wage rigidities.We estimate a switching regime model, in which the observed distribution of individual wage changes, computed from West German register data for 1976-1997, is generated by simultaneous processes of real, nominal or no wage rigidity, and...

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Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in Small Establishments

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Bonin, Holger - 2004

Based on a large employer-employee matched data set, the paper investigates the effects of variable enforcement of German dismissal protection legislation on the employment dynamics in small establishments. Specifically, using a difference-in-differences approach, we study the effect of changes...

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Analyzing the Labor Market Activity of Immigrant Families in Germany

Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K.; Sinning, Mathias - 2007

's current consumption. Using data for West Germany, we do not find evidence for such a specialization strategy.We further …

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WTP vs.WTA: Christmas Presents and the Endowment Effect

Bauer, Thomas K.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2008

Using data on the valuation of Christmas gifts received by students in different fields at a German university, we investigate whether the endowment effect differs between students of economics and other respondents and whether it varies with the market price of the object under consideration....

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Fiscal Effects of Minimum Wages – An Analysis for Germany

Bauer, Thomas K.; Kluve, Jochen; Schaffner, Sandra; … - 2008

Against the background of the current discussion on the introduction of statutory minimum wages in Germany, this paper … from a structural labor demand model, the empirical results imply that the introduction of minimum wages in Germany will be …

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Evaluating the Labor-Market Effects of Compulsory Military Service - A Regression-Discontinuity Approach

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; … - 2009

exploiting the regression-discontinuity design of the military draft in Germany during the 1950s. Unbiased estimates of military …

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