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Bönke, Timm; Corneo, Giacomo; Lüthen, Holger - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

This paper documents the magnitude, pattern, and evolution of lifetime earnings inequality in Germany. Based on a large …. Earnings data for thirty-one cohorts reveals striking evidence of a secular rise of intra-generational inequality in lifetime … earnings: West-German men born in the early 1960s are likely to experience about 80 % more lifetime inequality than their …

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Binary Choice Models with Discrete Regressors: Identification and Misspecification

Komarova, Tatiana - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2012

In semiparametric binary response models, support conditions on the regressors are required to guarantee point identification of the parameter of interest. For example,one regressor is usually assumed to have continuous support conditional on the other regressors. In some instances, such...

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Technical Efficiency and CO2 Reduction Potentials: An Analysis of the German Electricity Generating Sector

Seifert, Stefan; Cullmann, Astrid; Hirschhausen, … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014

In this paper, we analyze the technical efficiency of CO2 reduction potentials of German power and heat plants, using a non-parametric sequential Data Envelopment Analysis. We apply a metafrontier framework to evaluate plant-level efficiencies in the transformation of inputs into desirable...

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Binary Choice Models with Discrete Regressors: Identification and Misspecification

Komarova, Tatiana - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2012

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Income Taxation and Household Size: Would French Family Splitting Make German Families Better Off ?

Baclet, Alexandre; Dell, Fabien; Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

In this paper, we address the question whether family support via the income tax system is more generous in France than in Germany, as it is often claimed in the public debate. We use two micro-data sets and a micro-simulation model to compare effective average tax rates for different household...

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20 Years of German Unification: Evidence on Income Convergence and Heterogeneity

Brück, Tilman; Peters, Heiko - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we compare total individual income of permanent adult residents, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West...

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