Research suggests the relationship between time pressure and software quality to be more complex than presumed. While software developers can adjust their output to improve observed performance at the expense of…
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2021
This paper studies effects of the introduction of a new digital mass medium on reemployment of unemployed job seekers. We combine data on broadband internet availability at the local level with German individual…
Does the politico-economic system affect preferences for immigration? In this study, I show that individuals exposed to life under state socialism have formed and persistently hold different attitudes toward…
Flood risk may differ across income levels. In this paper, I employ unique survey data from more than 8,000 households in Germany to derive an integrated flood risk indicator that accounts for local flood…
We analyze housing markets in a suburb north of the Danish capital Copenhagen. There the concentration of affluent households decreases rapidly with distance to nature. This indicates systematic differences in…
Marcel Mauss wrote in 1923 in his essay The Gift that he had "found one of the rocks on which our societies rest" in the motifs of the exchange of gifts. This thesis still raises questions today: How does…
Based on a detailed model of the German tax-benefit system, this paper simulates private and fiscal returns to education for college graduates and college dropouts.
Like many other countries, Germany has experienced rapid population and workforce ageing, yet with substantial variation across regions. In this paper we first use this spatial variation between 1975 and 2014 to…
