The Fiscal Burden of Korean Reunification: A Generational Accounting Approach [PDF]
This paper uses Generational Accounting to assess the fiscal impacts of Korean reunification. Our findings suggest that early reunification will result in a large increase in the fiscal burden for most current and future generations of South Koreans. The
Alan J. Auerbach +2 more
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Beyond species means – the intraspecific contribution to global wood density variation
New Phytologist, EarlyView.Summary Wood density is central for estimating vegetation carbon storage and a plant functional trait of great ecological and evolutionary importance. However, the global extent of wood density variation is unclear, especially at the intraspecific level. We assembled the most comprehensive wood density collection to date, including 109 626 records from
Fabian Jörg Fischer +105 more
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Disagreement About Fiscal Policy
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Politicians disagree about fiscal policy. This disagreement should have economic effects beyond the effects of government spending and taxation. We use the full set of speeches in the German Bundestag since 1960 and apply state‐of‐the art natural language processing techniques to construct two series of fiscal disagreement starting in 1970 ...
Albina Latifi +3 more
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The Lost and Forgotten Lesson of German Reunification and How It Can Relaunch the European Union Project [PDF]
Romanian Journal of European Affairs, 2016 The European Union has been confronted, particularly in the past decade, with a diminishing position in the world economy in nominal terms (as percentage of world GDP), a decline of its global competitiveness and an increase in the diversity of the ...
Florin Bonciu
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Genetic Diagnoses Among Congenital Anomaly Cases in Europe: Data From the EUROCAT Network
Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Surveillance of congenital anomaly prevalence over time can identify new teratogens. Anomalies with a genetic cause are excluded from the monitoring. Objectives We examined temporal changes in the proportion of genetic diagnoses among cases with a congenital anomaly.
Jorieke E. H. Bergman +23 more
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Avoidable Cancer Mortality in Germany Since Reunification: Regional Variation and Sex Differences
Frontiers in Public Health, 2019 Background: Regional comparisons of cancer-related mortality in Germany are traditionally focused on disparities between East and West Germany. Recent improvements in all-cause and cancer-related mortality show a diverse regional pattern beyond the known
Ronny Westerman, Michael Mühlichen
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Location, location, location [PDF]
, 2008 How important is access to markets as a driver of economic prosperity? In new research, Stephen Redding and Daniel Sturm address this question by analysing the post-war division of Germany and its impact on the border cities in the West suddenly cut off ...
Redding, Stephen, Sturm, Daniel.M
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Les Sorabes : une minorité invisible ?
Belgeo, 2013 The Lusatian Sorbs are descendants of slave peoples settled in Eastern Germany around the year 500. Today they represent the least numerous Slavonic people.
Hélène Yèche
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A Study on the Reasons for the Rise of Right-Wing Forces in East Part of Germany After the Reunification of Germany Since 1989 [PDF]
, 2022 Xiang Ji, Sihan Niu, Peiwei Yan
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From Politics to the Family: How Sex-Role Attitudes Keep on Diverging in Reunified Germany [PDF]
What is the role of politics in shaping attitudes about appropriate roles for women in the family and the compatibility of work and motherhood? In this paper we argue that the German separation and later reunification produced a natural experiment to ...
Helmut Rainer, Stefan Bauernschuster
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