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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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Theorie und Empirie über den Wirkungszusammenhang zwischen sozialer Herkunft, kulturellem und sozialem Kapital, Bildung und Einkommen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Krenz, Astrid - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008
mittelbar, über das erreichte Bildungsniveau, das Einkommen eines Menschen bestimmt. Die Bildung eines Individuums hängt dabei … Einkommen determiniert. Neben der Darlegung theoretischer und ökonometrischer Konzepte wird für die Jahre 2001 und 2005 für die … Hintergrunds über kulturelles und soziales Kapital auf das Einkommen herausarbeitet. Es zeigt sich, dass der soziale Hintergrund …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018744
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Illness and Health Satisfaction: The Role of Relative Comparisons
Thiel, Lars - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
This paper investigates the role of relative comparisons in health status for individual health satisfaction. Previous research stresses the importance of interdependencies in subjective well-being and health arising from positional preferences and status e ects, social health norms, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010937932
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Why Do German Men Marry Women from Less Developed Countries?: An Analysis of Transnational Partner Search Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel
Glowsky, David - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007
This paper examines why German men marry women from countries which are less economically developed. Two hypotheses deduced from exchange theory and the economic theory of the family are tested: 1. Low physical and social attractiveness as well as reduced opportunities to meet German partners...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017387
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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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The Efficient Side of Progressive Income Taxation
Corneo, Giacomo - CESifo - 2000
This paper examines the allocative implications of progressive income taxation when individuals care about their … relative income. It shows that tax progressivity might improve efficiency, and the more so in egalitarian economies …. Introducing a progressive income tax can yield a Pareto improvement if pre-tax income is evenly distributed. Implementing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406276
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Does unemployment help or hinder becoming independent? : the role of employment status for leaving the parental home
Jacob, Marita; Kleinert, Corinna - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2007
, welfare state, parents and partner. Resources of each can be pooled, and resources of other actors can compensate for own …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537108
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Who is targeted by One-Euro-Jobs? : a selectivity analysis
Hohmeyer, Katrin; Jozwiak, Eva - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
"In 2005 major reforms of the means-tested unemployment benefit system were implemented in Germany. One element of the reforms was to activate benefit recipients by a workfare programme, the so-called One-Euro-Job programme. More than 600,000 benefit recipients entered this programme in the year...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537145
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Pension and children : Pareto improvement with heterogeneous preferences
Gaggermeier, Christian - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2006
, which internalises positive externalities of children - their pension contributions. Individuals may differ in their … preferences for children and their ability to have children at all. They can choose between the status-quo flat-rate benefits and … a new system, in which they get just the benefits that are (on average) financed by their own children, reduced by an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537151