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The Benefits of Remoteness - Digital Mobility Data, Regional Road Infrastruct...
We investigate the regional distribution of the COVID-19 outbreak in Germany. We use a novel digital mobility dataset, that traces the undertaken trips on Easter Sunday 2020 and... -
Lifetime Cost of Living and Effective Prices: Theory and Evidence for Germany...
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Projecting the Spread of COVID19 for Germany
We model the evolution of the number of individuals reported sick with COVID-19 in Germany. Our theoretical framework builds on a continuous time Markov chain with four states:... -
Staff Rotation as an Anti-Corruption Policy in China and in Germany: An Exper...
We conducted bribery experiments in China and in Germany to analyze the effect of staff rotation on corruption. After being bribed, Chinese and German subjects in the role of... -
Did the German minimum wage reform influence (un)employment growth in 2015? E...
Using the variation across space, age and sex and the variation across space and sectors, we analyze the relationship between the minimum wage and (un-)employment growth in... -
The Effects of Germany’s New Minimum Wage on Employment and Welfare Dependency
In January 2015, Germany introduced a federal, statutory minimum wage of 8.50 Euro per hour. This study evaluates the effects of this policy on regular and marginal employment... -
The Evolution of Immigrants' Homeownership in Germany (replication data)
Recently, the homeownership rate of immigrants in Germany has increased by more than 20 percentage points. To shed light on this sharp rise, this paper investigates the driving... -
Saving Behavior and Housing Wealth - Evidence from German Micro Data (replica...
Housing property is the most important position in a household’s wealth portfolio. Even though there is strong evidence that house price cycles and saving patterns behave... -
Worker Personality: Another Skill Bias beyond Education in the Digital Age
We present empirical evidence suggesting that technological progress in the digital age will be biased not only with respect to skills acquired through education but... -
Wage Performance of Immigrants in Germany
This paper updates and deepens our understanding of the wage performance of immigrants in Germany. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel, it documents that immigrant workers... -
Public Preferences for Government Spending Priorities: Survey Evidence from G...
Employing data from a representative survey conducted in Germany, this paper examines public preferences for the size and composition of government expenditure. We focus on... -
The Empirics of Hidden Labor Force Dynamics in Germany
The unemployment rate is the core indicator when researchers and policymakers assess the level of underemployment in an economy. However, accumulating evidence suggests that the... -
Migration and Regional Wage Disparities in Germany (replication data)
The study provides an analysis of the effect of migration and commuting on regional wage disparities. For the analysis most variables are taken from the INKAR dataset (INKAR... -
Life satisfaction in Germany after reunification: Additional insights on the ...
The authors update previous findings and add new insights on the East-West gap in overall life satisfaction and its trend by using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel... -
Youth unemployment after apprenticeship training and individual, occupation a...
This paper analyses the risk of unemployment, unemployment duration, and the risk of longterm unemployment immediately after apprenticeship graduation. Unemployed apprenticeship... -
Intergenerational transmission of unemployment - evidence for German sons (re...
This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German survey data that cover the last decades we find significant... -
Family background and educational attainment - Are there birth order effects ...
This paper contributes to the literature on the determinants of children’s human capital by analyzing the effects of birth order in Germany. These effects are typically...
