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Innovationen auf Bestellung? Was von einer stärkeren Nachfrageorientierung in der Innovationspolitik zu halten ist
Dauchert, Helge; Harhoff, Dietmar; Llerena, Patrick; … - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 66 (2013) 05, pp. 03-19
Wirtschaftswachstum in Deutschland und international eine neue Dynamik entfaltet. Helge Dauchert, Dietmar Harhoff und Patrick Llerena … Deutschland im Jahr 2008 auf etwa 13% des BIP belief. Generell sehen die Autoren durchaus Potenzial für eine stärkere … Beschaffungswesens in Deutschland und fehlender Anreize für die Beschaffungsverantwortlichen zum Einkauf innovativer Leistungen häufig …
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Public Pensions, Changing Employment Patterns, and the Impact of Pension Reforms across Birth Cohorts: A Microsimulation Analysis for Germany
Geyer, Johannes; Steiner, Viktor - 2010
We analyze the impact of changing employment patterns and pension reforms on the future level of public pensions across birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a rich dataset that combines household survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and process-produced...
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Late-Life Decline in Well-Being across Adulthood in Germany, the UK, and the US: Something Is Seriously Wrong at the End of Life
Gerstorf, Denis; Ram, Nilam; Mayraz, Guy; Hidajat, Mira; … - 2010
Throughout adulthood and old age, levels of well-being appear to remain relatively stable. However, evidence is emerging that late in life well-being declines considerably. Using long-term longitudinal data of deceased participants in national samples from Germany, the UK, and the US, we examine...
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Individual and Neighborhood Determinants of Survey Nonresponse: An Analysis Based on a New Subsample of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), Microgeographic Characteristics and...
Schräpler, Jörg-Peter; Schupp, Jürgen; Wagner, Gert G. - 2010
This study examines the phenomenon of nonresponse in the first wave of a refresher sample (subsample H) of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). Our first step is to link additional (commercial) microgeographic data on the immediate neighborhoods of the households visited by...
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Die wahrgenommene Gerechtigkeit des eigenen Erwerbseinkommens: Geschlechtstypische Muster und die Bedeutung des Haushaltskontextes
Liebig, Stefan; Sauer, Carsten; Schupp, Jürgen - 2010
Die zunehmende Erwerbsbeteiligung von Frauen und die Ausbreitung "atypischer" Beschäftigungsverhältnisse hat zur Folge, dass der Anteil an Haushalten, in denen der Mann der alleinige Ernährer der Familie ist, abnimmt und der Anteil an Zweiverdienerhaushalten seit Jahren ansteigt. Vor diesem...
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Empirical Welfare Analysis in Random Utility Models of Labour Supply
Decoster, André; Haan, Peter - 2010
The aim of this paper is to apply recently proposed individual welfare measures in the context of random utility models of labour supply. Contrary to the standard practice of using reference preferences and wages, these measures preserve preference heterogeneity in the normative step of the...
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The Social Comparison Scale: Testing the Validity, Reliability, and Applicability of the Iowa-Netherlands Comparison Orientation Measure (INCOM) on the German Population
Schneider, Simone; Schupp, Jürgen - 2011
Social comparisons are an essential source of information about the self. Research in social psychology has shown individual variation in the tendency toward comparison with other people's opinions and abilities, raising the question of whether social comparisons are driven by psychological...
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Longevity, Life-Cycle Behavior and Pension Reform
Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - 2011
How can public pension systems be reformed to ensure fiscal stability in the face of increasing life expectancy? To address this pressing open question in public finance, we estimate a life-cycle model in which the optimal employment, retirement and consumption decisions of forward-looking...
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A Wealth Tax on the Rich to Bring down Public Debt? Revenue and Distributional Effects of a Capital Levy
Bach, Stefan; Beznoska, Martin; Steiner, Viktor - 2011
The idea of higher wealth taxes to finance the mounting public debt in the wake of the financial crises is gaining ground in several OECD countries. We evaluate the revenue and distributional effects of a one-time capital levy on personal net wealth that is currently on the German political...
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Comparing the Predictive Power of Subjective and Objective Health Indicators: Changes in Hand Grip Strength and Overall Satisfaction with Life as Predictors of Mortality
Ambrasat, Jens; Schupp, Jürgen; Wagner, Gert G. - 2011
Self-reported measures of health are generally treated as weak measures of respondents' objective health status. On the other hand, most surveys use self-reported health to measure health status and to determine the effects of a range of other socio-economic characteristics of the local...
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