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The devil is in the shadow: Do institutions affect income and productivity or only official income and official productivity?

Dreher, Axel; Méon, Pierre-Guillaume; Schneider, Friedrich - 2007

This paper assesses the relationship between institutions, output, and productivity, when official output is corrected for the size of the shadow economy. Our results confirm the usual positive impact of institutional quality on official output and total factor productivity, and its negative...

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Inheritances in Europe: High earners reap the most benefits

Westermeier, Christian; Tiefensee, Anita; Grabka, Markus M. - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 6 (2016) 16/17, pp. 185-195

high-income households inherit more frequently and receive much higher amounts than those from low-income households. Since … intergenerational income mobility is low, highincome households can build wealth, both from regular income and from substantial capital …

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Why do trade negotiations take so long?

Moser, Christoph; Rose, Andrew K. - 2012

The Doha multilateral round of trade negotiations sponsored by the WTO has been dragging on for over a decade, with no end in sight. In this short paper we assess empirically what determines the duration of trade negotiations, focusing on the span between the start of trade talks and their...

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Social and economic characteristics of financial and blood donors in Germany

Priller, Eckhard; Schupp, Jürgen - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 1 (2011) 6, pp. 23-30

income with people in need. A new survey in the long-term SOEP study has now made it possible to collect this information …? Does a high income increase the willingness to donate money? Do education and age play a role? Do people who are happy …

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Do sticky wages matter? New evidence from matched firm-survey and register data

Funk, Anne Kathrin; Kaufmann, Daniel - 2020

match individual wages from a bi-annual firm survey with information on annual income and employment from social security … employment income. We then identify the allocative effects of downward nominal wage rigidities on income and employment after an … unexpected 1% decline of the consumer price level. Base wage rigidities cause a decline of aggregate income (-0.39%) and …

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