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Education and Unemployment: A French-German Comparison

Lauer, Charlotte - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003

examines the impact of education on both risk components. France faces a higher unemployment rate than West-Germany, due to a …. The risk of entering unemployment is particularly high for French employees with poor education, but higher education … unemployed, they are better in France than in West-Germany at all education levels, but particularly for the unemployed with a …

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Educational Effects of Early or Later Secondary School Tracking in Germany

Mühlenweg, Andrea Maria - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

This paper examines educational outcomes of pupils selected to secondary school types by different tracking regimes in a German state: Pupils are alternatively streamed after fourth grade or after sixth grade. Regression results indicate that, estimated on the mean, there are no negative effects...

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Earnings Prospects for People with Migration Background in Germany

Thomsen, Stephan L.; Gernandt, Johannes; Aldashev, Alisher - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

Less than half of the people with migration background living in Germany possess foreign citizenship. Hence, using citizenship to analyze economic issues of immigration may be problematic for two reasons. On the one hand, a quite substantial share of persons with migration background is...

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Education, Gender and Earnings in France and Germany: Level and Dispersion Effects

Lauer, Charlotte - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

This paper analyses the relationship between education, gender and earnings in France and Germany. The model chosen … here enables to estimate the impact of education not only on the expected earnings level but also on their dispersion … general instruction yields an earnings premium that cannot compensated by a vocational degree. Moreover, education affects the …

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A Model of Educational Attainment: Application to the German Case

Lauer, Charlotte - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

education to decide on the optimal amount of education they want to invest in. In an extension of the model, the educational …

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Earnings Prospects for People with Migration Background in Germany

Aldashev, Alisher; Gernandt, Johannes; Thomsen, Stephan L. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

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Spillovers in networks of user generated content: Pseudo-experimental evidence on Wikipedia

Kummer, Michael - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

I quantify spillovers of attention in a network of content pages, which is challenging, because such networks form endogenously. I exploit exogenous variation in the article network of German Wikipedia to circumvent this problem. Wikipedia prominently advertises one featured article on its main...

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Spillovers in networks of user generated content: Evidence from 23 natural experiments on Wikipedia

Kummer, Michael E. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

Endogeneity in network formation hinders the identification of the role social networks play in generating spillovers, peer effects and other externalities. This paper tackles this problem and investigates how the link network between articles on the German Wikipedia influences the attention and...

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(International) R&D collaboration and SMEs: The effectiveness of targeted public R&D support schemes

Hottenrott, Hanna; Lopes-Bento, Cindy - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

specific policy design aiming at incentivizing (international) collaboration and R&D in small and mediumsized firms achieves … collaborate internationally as well as for SMEs. …

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Cartel detection in procurement markets

Hüschelrath, Kai; Veith, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

Cartel detection is usually viewed as a key task of either competition authorities or compliance officials in firms with an elevated risk of cartelization. We argue that customers of hard core cartels can have both incentives and possibilities to detect such agreements on their own initiative...

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