The Treatment effects vary with the size of the firm and with regard to regional location. Note that we do not find the East-West Difference - but rahter a city vs hinterland scheme.

Another explanation is tied to cultural proximity. We found in a survey with the treated firms that preceived tenacity of arabs is significanty lower compared to the other groups.

The effects are most prevalent in skilled trades. However, we also report that drop out rate is very high in this sector. So one explanation is for sure liked to statsitical discrimination. Note the high response rate of the municipalities that seek apprentices every year.

The bad: Grades and other skills and competences are not even close to overcome the negative effect of a non-German sounding name. Have a look:

Sending away 50k requests to firms that had previously posted an job vacancy at the Federal Employment Agency over three years using German vs. non-German sounding names, we are able to illustrate a responsivevess ranking in the paper that is avaialbe at SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Orgin beats Performance. In Germany, 10th graders who apply for an apprenticeship have a 15pp lower chance to receive an answer. @dgsoziologie.bsky.social @mpsa.bsky.social @davidajaeger.bsky.social @cesifo.org @danbischof.bsky.social @p-hunermund.com papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

📄 The full study (open access): 👉https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0324542

we inform a decision model that makes this pattern theoretically understandable and, for the first time, clearly distinguishes between opportunism and persuasion effort in political interactions with voters. (4/5)

3. Persuasion effort: Candidates who disagree with voters write significantly longer answers.
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🔍 Three key findings: 1. Partisanship: Candidates are more likely to respond when the voter's opinion aligns with their own party line. 2. Opportunism: The expressed stance often adapts to the voter's opinion – sometimes contrary to the expected party line. (2/5)

First-time voters hold polarized views on migrant issues. How do politicians react to this phenomenon? To find out, we contacted 1,554 candidates before the 2021 German federal election as (non-)migrant first-time voters and vary their stance on dual citizenship. Openaccess!(1/5)

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A reform of the fiscal framework in the European Union is currently under discussion. Our new publication in the Int. Rev. Econ. Finance can inform this debate: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Spoiler: We find that most measures designed to strengthen the existing Maastricht 1.0 framework...