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Quo vadis, Ökonomik?
Schmidt, Christoph M.; Moore, Nils aus dem - 2009
unter Druck, ihre Erklärungs- und Beratungskompetenz werden bezweifelt. In Deutschland kulminiert die Debatte in einem … leidenschaftlichen Streit um die künftige Ausrichtung der Fakultäten für Volkswirtschaftslehre. Vertreter der traditionellen … oder die spezifischen Auswirkungen wirtschaftspolitischer Maßnahmen ermitteln. Die Volkswirtschaftslehre als akademische …
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Maintenance of and innovation in long-term panel studies : the case of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP)
Wagner, Gert G.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2002
The availability of panel data on the basis of micro data has become an indispensable component of the infrastructure of empirically oriented social scientists and economists. This is also a consequence of the fact that, for a panel survey, the quality of both content and methodological analyses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260786
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Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe; … - 2005
This paper presents new evidence on the distribution of risk attitudes in the population, using a novel set of survey questions and a representative sample of roughly 22,000 individuals living in Germany. Using a question that asks about willingness to take risks on an 11-point scale, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260868
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Gerechtigkeitsprobleme im Wohlfahrtsstaat: Besteuerung, wohlfahrtsstaatliche Transfers und die Gerechtigkeit des eigenen Erwerbseinkommens
Liebig, Stefan; Schupp, Jürgen - 2007
The article discusses the conflict of goals between fair compensation for performance and equitable support based on need in modern welfare states, which is a subject of controversy in various disciplines. It answers the question of the extent to which this policy problem of modern welfare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260918
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A Nation-Wide Laboratory: Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Surveys
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; von Rosenbladt, Bernhard; … - 2003
Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and self-selection biases. The usefulness of survey data is limited by measurement error and by the questionability of their behavioral relevance. Here we present a method integrating interactive experiments and...
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Persistence and the German Unemployment Problem: Empirical Evidences on German Labor Market Flows
Schmidt, Christoph M. - 1999
Using a retrospective monthly calendarium of individuals? major economic activities, this paper characterizes the monthly employment and unemployment rates and the monthly transition intensities between the states of employment, unemployment, and out-of-thelabor- force for the German labor...
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The Heterogeneity and Cyclical Sensitivity of Unemployment: An Exploration of German Labor Market Flows
Schmidt, Christoph M. - 1999
It is often argued that the labor market outcomes of several ?problem groups? of German workers suffer disproportionately in an economic downturn. These groups are women, the unskilled, and young and old workers, respectively. Using monthly individual-level data for West Germany for the period...
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Money for Nothing and Your Chips for Free? The Anatomy of the PC Wage Dipperential
Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 1999
In this paper, the role of the computer at the workplace will be examined in determining the wage structure in Germany. Following Krueger (1993) and using the German Socio- Economic Panel (GSOEP), cross-sectional wage regression results from 1997 and panel results from 1984-1997 are presented....
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Industry Wage Differentials Revisited: A Longitudinal Comparison of Germany and USA (1984-1996)
Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 1999
In this paper, the inter-industry wage structure in West Germany and USA is compared using the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), the German Mikrozensus (MZ), the American Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the American Current Population Survey (CPS) from 1984 to 1996. Using a sample...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262319
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Discretionary Measures of Active Labor Market Policy: The German Employment Promotion Reform in Perspective
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2000
This paper provides a preliminary assessment of recent reforms of German employment promotion policy. While several recent studies analyze the impact of measures of employment promotion for the case of Germany, no comparable study exists on the aggregate level, thus precluding any assessment of...
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