Ekkehard Kohler
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Ekkehard Kohler
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Full Professor for Economics Didactics and Economic Education University of Siegen // Political Economy // Social and Political Science // Alumni @uwmadscience.bsky.social // ORCID: 0000-0003-1466-9891
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September 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Please share and we are looking forward to you comments. Thanks a lot!
August 20, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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.
August 20, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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.
August 20, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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.
August 20, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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:
August 20, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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....
August 20, 2025 at 10:08 AM
📄 The full study (open access): 👉https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0324542
July 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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)
July 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
3. Persuasion effort: Candidates who disagree with voters write significantly longer answers.
Why are these findings relevant? Because we...(3/5)
July 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
🔍 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)
July 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Madison, Wisconsin!!!
April 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Maybe it’s simply taste-based.
April 14, 2025 at 7:40 AM