1. Discussion and Working Paper // 2006

    Regional school comparison and school choice : how do they relate to student performance?

    School choice and accountability have become popular educational policies in the US and the UK. In Europe, such policies are less often applied and therefore less subject to research. The present paper uses…

  2. Discussion and Working Paper // 2006

    Der Finanzierungsbeitrag der Ausländer zu den deutschen Staatsfinanzen: eine Bilanz für 2004

    This paper calculates the net contribution of foreigners to the public coffers in Germany in fiscal year 2004. On the basis of profiles measuring the per capita payments by age and nationality, retrieved from…

  3. Discussion and Working Paper // 2006

    Beautiful Serbia

    The paper studies the causal impact of participation in an active labor market program – the ‘Beautiful Serbia’ program providing training and temporary work in the construction sector in Serbia and Montenegro…

  4. Discussion and Working Paper // 2006

    Ethnic persistence, assimilation and risk proclivity

    The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor…