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Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey

Dohmen, Thomas J; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Schupp, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

questions and a representative sample of roughly 22,000 individuals living in Germany. Using a question that asks about …

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Union Density and Varieties of Coverage : The Anatomy of Union Wage Effects in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten; Lembcke, Alexander C. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining …

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Trust Attitudes

Dohmen, Thomas J; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

parents to children; (2) positive assortative mating of parents, which tends to reinforce the impact of parents on the child …

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Life Expectancy and Economic Growth: The Role of the Demographic Transition

Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

In this paper we investigate the causal effect of life expectancy on economic growth by explicitly accounting for the role of the demographic transition. In addition to focusing on issues of empirical identification, this paper emphasizes the role of the econometric specification. We present a...

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Life Expectancy and Economic Growth: The Role of the Demographic Transition

Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

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The Economic and Demographic Transition, Mortality, and Comparative Development

Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We propose a unified growth theory to investigate the mechanics generating the economic and demographic transition, and the role of mortality differences for comparative development. The framework can replicate the quantitative patterns in historical time series data and in contemporaneous...

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The Economic and Demographic Transition, Mortality, and Comparative Development

Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Trust Attitudes

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

to trust other people – are transmitted from parents to children. Our evidence is based on survey questions that ask … between the responses of parents and their children. Exploring heterogeneity in the strength of transmission, we find that … gender of the child does not matter, but that children with fewer siblings, and firstborn children, are more strongly …

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Measuring Ethnic Identity and Its Impact onEconomic Behavior

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

The paper advocates for a new measure of the ethnic identity of migrants, models itsdeterminants and explores its explanatory power for various types of their economicperformance...

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Ethnic Self-Identification of First-Generation Immigrants

Zimmermann, Laura; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Constant, Amelie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper uses the concept of ethnic self-identification of immigrants in a two-dimensional framework. It acknowledges the fact that attachments to the home and the host country are not necessarily mutually exclusive. There are three possible paths of adjustment from separation at entry, namely...

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