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use the separation of Germany into the communist GDR and the democratic FRG and its reunification in 1990 as a natural … experiment. Relying on household data that are representative for Germany, our empirical results strongly indicate that … conspicuous consumption is relatively more important in East Germany. Importantly, a significant gap in conspicuous consumption …
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to the fit. Using data for the United States, the euro area and Germany, we assess the performance of boosting when …
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For policy reforms to increase a society's welfare, reliable information on people's prefer-ences and expectations is crucial. Representative opinion polls, often involving simplified questions about the complex topics under debate, are an important source of information for both policy-makers...
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people living in Turkey and in Germany, using the anthropological concept of worldview. Data were gathered from four surveys …: nationwide surveys in Turkey and Germany, an online survey of Turkish people living in Germany, and a survey conducted as an … experiment in a mosque attended by Turkish people in Germany. We find striking differences in parenting attitudes between Turkish …
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Using data from the 2006 wave of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper analyzes how a minimum wage affects employment, wage inequality, public expenditures, and aggregate income in the low-wage sector. It is shown that a statutory minimum wage of EUR 7.50 per hour would cost...
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of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all …
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This paper compares two prominent empirical measures of individual risk attitudes - the Holt and Laury (2002) lottery-choice task and the multi-item questionnaire advocated by Dohmen, Falk, Huffman, Schupp, Sunde and Wagner (2011) - with respect to (a) their within-subject stability over time...
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differences for different types of vocational training, minor differences between East and West Germany and males and females, and …
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-speaking Switzerland is greater than in Germany. The impact of the first-generation immigrants' destination decision on their offspring …
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preferences, we implement parallel survey experiments in Germany and the United States. In both countries, support for increased …
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