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The intergenerational transmission of educational attainment in East and West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Trübswetter, Parvati - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2011
, educational opportunities were at times 'actively managed' and allocated to children of less educated parents. What happened to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592403
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The intergenerational transmission of educational attainment in East and West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Trübswetter, Parvati - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2011
, educational opportunities were at times 'actively managed' and allocated to children of less educated parents. What happened to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838234
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The Value of Environmental Status Signaling: The Case of the Toyota Prius
Delgado, Michael S.; Harriger, Jessica L.; Khanna, Neha - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010916182
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A study on job satisfaction and morale of commercial banks in Bangladesh
Islam, Jamal; Mohajan, Haradhan; Datta, Rajib - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In today’s changing world the business environment is changing rapidly. The emergence of e-commerce and development of information and technology plays a significant role in the nature of work as well as their attitude towards the organization. We have been experiencing a tremendous growth in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260489
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Taxes, Status Goods, and Piracy
Balestrino, Alessandro - CESifo - 2012
This paper studies the design of indirect redistributive taxation and of corrective taxation, as well as the formation of equilibrium indirect tax policies via a political process, in the presence of status goods, allowing for the possibility that illegal copies of those goods may be purchased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416119
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Income redistribution: how to divide the pie?
Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In this paper, we elicit preferences of Swiss citizens for the allocation of income redistribution to different uses … amount of income redistribution as a share of disposable income. Here, we estimate marginal willingness-to-pay values for … types of recipients (old-age pensioners, people with ill health, the unemployed, working poor, and families with children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644924
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Height and Social Status in Eighteenth-Century Germany
Komlos, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, …
Examines the height of German youth in the late eighteenth century, and documents the very large differences in height between the lower and upper classes. Shows that the height of the upper class did not decline at the end of the 18th century as did that of the common men.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761409
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Unemployment, Economic Status and Ethnic Politics
Mehar, Ayub - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
ethnic politics in Karachi. The disparities in income, employment and social status have been compared between the nine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789394
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Status, fertility, growth and the great transition
Tournemaine, Frederic; Tsoukis, Christopher - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
parents to have fewer but better educated children, which may foster economic development. Second, government should sometimes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836362
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Wealth and Status: Analyzing the Perceived Attractiveness of 2010 FIFA World Cup Players
Chi, Feng; Yang, Nathan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
associations between social status and income. This paper focuses on the supply of status and tests the underlying assumption by …'s GDP per capita and its FIFA rank, which suggests that income is related to these "status" fixed effects through some … caution though that income is not an exclusive driver of status, as ability, age, game outcome and race also matter. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008526977