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strongest with respect to affiliate employment in Western Europe. A one percent larger wage gap between Germany and locations in …
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-insurance demand. An unanticipated tax reform in 2000 halved the tax exemption limit for capital income in Germany. We document that …
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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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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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-speaking Switzerland is greater than in Germany. The impact of the first-generation immigrants' destination decision on their offspring …
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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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; public opinion poll ; PAYG pension system ; East Germany …
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We examine evidence for a systematic underperformance of Germany's state-owned banks in the current financial crisis …
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The paper aims at assessing discrete complementarities in innovation policies in the context of the Brazilian industry in 2003. The paper considers the approach advanced by Mohnen and and Röller [European Economic Review, 2005] that focuses on supermodularity and submodularity tests for...
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