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The Long Wind of Change. Educational Impacts on Entrepreneurial Intentions [PDF]
In this paper, we assess educational factors which might have an impact on entrepreneurship. We analyze influences on the entrepreneurial intentions of German university students and find that pre-university education significantly affects their desire ...
Oliver Falck +2 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 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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Las últimas elecciones de la RDA. La puerta abierta hacia la reunificación alemana
Historia Actual On-Line, 2012 Las últimas elecciones celebradas el 18 de marzo de 1990 en la República Democrática Alemana (RDA) fueron sin lugar a dudas una de las premisas fundamentales para que la Reunificación se produjera unos meses más tarde.
Félix Gil Feito
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Education, Research, and Economic Growth [PDF]
It is obvious that the German economy exhibits a significant decline in economic growth during the last two decades. Although the German economy has still to overcome the burden of the reunification in 1990 it is shown that this burden might be only one ...
Caspari, Volker +2 more
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A Complexity‐Based Approach to Migration Policy Change: The Case of the German Residence Act
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper adapts and applies existing indicators to measure the complexity of German migration policy over time. Building on recent scholarship that conceptualizes migration policy as multidimensional, I adapt a measurement strategy from the EUPLEX Project to capture three key components of regulatory complexity: structural, linguistic, and ...
Pau Palop‐García
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Does Democracy Foster Trust? [PDF]
The level of trust inherent in a society is important for a wide range of microeconomic and macroeconomic outcomes. This paper investigates how individuals' attitudes toward social and institutional trust are shaped by the political regime in which they ...
Helmut Rainer, Thomas Siedler
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‘There Has Been a Scandal’: Cultural Performers and the Strangers’ Churches of London
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite what one might assume to have been a rigid line between London's refugee community—with its strict brand of Protestantism—and the city's performance cultures—often the target of strict Protestants' ire—historical records reveal a number of overlaps between those domains.
Matteo Pangallo
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EMU enlargement and convergence of price levels: Lessons from the German reunification [PDF]
We analyse the possible impact of EMU enlargement on inflation rates in the accession countries. Using a simple theoretical model we show that the optimal path price adjustments should be asymmetric, i.e. occuring mostly in the candidate countries. Using
Paul Cavelaars, Philipp Maier
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Estimating The Causal Effect of Income on Health: Evidence from Post Reunification East Germany [PDF]
In this paper we investigate if there was a causal effect of changes in current and 'permanent' income on the health of East Germans in the years following reunification. Reunification was completely unanticipated and therefore can be seen as a providing
John P. Haisken-DeNew +2 more
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