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The effect of central exit examinations on student achievement : quasi-experimental evidence from TIMSS Germany

Jürges, Hendrik; Schneider, Kerstin; Büchel, Felix - 2003

This paper makes use of the regional variation in schooling legislation within the German secondary education system to …

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Teacher quality and incentives theoretical and empirical effects of standards on teacher quality : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, May 2004

Jürges, Hendrik; Richter, Wolfram F.; Schneider, Kerstin - 2004

Applying the theory of yardstick competition to the schooling system, we show that it is optimal to have central tests of student achievement and to engage in benchmarking because it raises the quality of teaching. This is true even if teachers' pay (defined in monetary terms) is not performance...

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Granting birthright citizenship : a door opener for immigrant children's educational participation and success

Felfe, Christina; Saurer, Judith - 2014

Does granting birthright citizenship help immigrant children integrating in the host country's educational system? We address this question using a reform of the German naturalization law in 1999 that entitled children born after January 1, 2000 with birthright citizenship. We use a...

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Fundamental determinants of school efficiency and equity : german states as a microcosm for OECD countries

Woessmann, Ludger (contributor) - 2007

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Are there no wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany? : a reassessment

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2021

This study replicates and challenges the finding of zero wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany by Pischke and von Wachter (Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(3), 592-598), which is unusual in the literature yet widely cited and until now uncontradicted. I document that this finding...

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Lifetime consequences of lost instructional time in the classroom : evidence from shortened school years

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2022

This study estimates the lifetime effects of lost instructional time in the classroom on labor market performance. For identification, I use historical shifts in the school year schedule in Germany, which substantially shortened the duration of the affected school years with no adjustments in...

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Integrating with their feet : cross-border lending at the German-Austrian border

Fidrmuc, Jarko (contributor); Hainz, Christa (contributor) - 2008

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Effects of corporate tax reforms on SMEs' investment decisions under the particular consideration of inflation

Nam, Chang-woon (contributor); Radulescu, Doina (contributor) - 2005

generous tax depreciation provisions. Several countries including the UK have reduced tax rates for SMEs. This study compares … incentive effects of such reforms on the SMEs’ investment decisions adopting simple present value model. Ceteris paribus tax …

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Is the German Mittelstand more resistant to crises? : empirical evidence from the great recession

Berlemann, Michael; Jahn, Vera; Lehmann, Robert - 2020

Mittelstand enterprises, defined as owner-managed SMEs. We present supporting evidence for the hypothesis that Mittelstand firms … performed more stable throughout the Great Recession than non-Mittelstand firms. We also show that owner-managed SMEs performed … significantly better than SMEs and owner-managed large enterprises. Thus, it is rather the combination of firm-size and owner …

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What explains the rise in CEO pay in Germany? : a panel data analysis for 1977-2009

Fabbri, Francesca; Marin, Dalia - 2012

The compensation of executive board members in Germany has become a highly controversial topic since Vodafone's hostile takeover of Mannesmann in 2000 and it is again in the spotlight since the outbreak of the financial crisis of 2009. Based on unique panel data evidence of the 500 largest firms...

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