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The selection of pay referents : potential patterns and impacts on life satisfaction

Schneider, Simone - 2010

Despite the relatively extensive research on pay levels and the consequences of income disparities, little is known about which reference groups people choose for comparative evaluation of personal income and why different selection patterns emerge. The aim of this paper is to dig deeper for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826564

The transition into work : specialities for the hidden labour force

Holst, Elke (contributor); Spieß, C. Katharina (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002121744

Measuring state dependence in individual poverty status : are there feedback effects to employment decisions and household composition?

Biewen, Martin (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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R&D and price elasticity of demand

Lucke, Dorothea (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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The relationship between pet ownership and health outcomes : German longitudinal evidence

Headey, Bruce (contributor); Grabka, Markus M. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Macroeconomic uncertainty and firm leverage

Baum, Christopher F. (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

This paper investigates the link between the optimal level of non-financial firms' leverage and macroeconomic uncertainty. We develop a structural model of a firm's value maximization problem that predicts that as macroeconomic uncertainty increases the firm will decrease its optimal level of...

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Enrolment into higher education and changes in repayment obligations of student aid : microeconometric evidence for Germany

Baumgartner, Hans J. (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

We evaluate the effect of the federal students' financial assistance scheme (BAfoeG) on enrolment rates into higher education by exploiting the exogenous variation introduced through a discrete shift in the repayment regulations. Supported students had to repay the full loan until 1990....

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The distribution and heterogeneity of technical efficiency within industries : an empirical assessment

Fritsch, Michael (contributor); Stephan, Andreas (contributor) - 2004

This paper analyzes the distribution of technical efficiency within manufacturing industries. Using a representative sample of 35,000 firms in 255 industries of the German cost structure census, technical efficiencies are estimated by applying a deterministic frontier production function with...

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What causes cross-industry differences of technical efficiency? : An empirical investigation

Fritsch, Michael (contributor); Stephan, Andreas (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Using micro-level panel data of about 35,000 firms from the German Cost Structure Census, we analyze the differences of technical efficiency across industries. Technical efficiency is estimated by firms' fixed effects. One striking result is that the distribution of technical efficiency across...

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Contribution to productivity or pork barrel? : The two faces of infrastructure investment

Cadot, Olivier (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource], rev

This paper proposes a simultaneous-equation approach to the estimation of the contribution of transport infrastructure … accumulation to regional growth. We model explicitly the political-economy process driving infrastructure investments; in doing so … infrastructure investments. By contrast, we find little evidence of concern for the maximization of economic returns to …

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