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Trends in East-West German Migration from 1989 to 2002 [PDF]
The purpose of this article is to show recent trends in regional migration from East to West Germany by combining data from the Statistisches Bundesamt from 1991 to 2002 with data from the Zentrales Einwohnerregister der DDR from 1989 to 1990.
Frank Heiland
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Abstract Several theories have been proposed to explain the family changes that have occurred in Europe since the mid‐1960s. It is often assumed that as these changes occurred simultaneously; they have a common origin and represent the same demographic shift.
Adrita Banerjee +4 more
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Good bye Lenin (or not?): The Effect of Communism on People's Preferences [PDF]
Preferences for redistribution, as well as the generosities of welfare states, differ significantly across countries. In this paper, we test whether there exists a feedback process of the economic regime on individual preferences.
Alberto Alesina +1 more
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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 ...
Bauernschuster, Stefan, Rainer, Helmut
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Abstract Background and Objectives Ageing populations in high‐income countries reduce the proportion of potential blood donors while increasing transfusion demand. Sustaining an adequate blood supply requires higher donor motivation among younger age groups.
Sophia Oesterreicher +8 more
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Induced Civic Pride and Integration [PDF]
This paper investigates whether a nation’s contingent value of hosting a mega-event depends on past experience with implied public goods benefits for its residents. Applying data from an ex-ante and ex-post query based on contingent valuation methods, we
Bernd Süssmuth +2 more
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Learning Capitalism the Hard Way - Evidence from German Reunification
We develop a model of firm learning in volatile markets with noisy signals and test its predictions using historical German data. Firms’ forecasts improve with age.
Triebs, Thomas P., Tumlinson, Justin
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Minor epic: Notes toward a different “Anthropoetry”
Abstract Anthropologists have often turned to poetry as a means of accessing emotional registers of which conventional academic prose is unable to avail. In doing so, they have tacitly conflated poetry with lyric poetry, today probably the most widely practiced poetic genre, associated in particular with the expression of inner feelings and subjectival
Stuart McLean
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The importance of regional availability of health care for old age survival - Findings from German reunification. [PDF]
Vogt TC, Vaupel JW.
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Immigration to Germany in the seventies and eighties: the role of family reunification [PDF]
Family reunification was virtually the only way for non-EC-foreigners to immigrate to Germany after the recruitment stop --in 1973. However, empirical knowledge on the relative size, the reasons and the accompanying circumstances of family reunification ...
Velling, Johannes
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