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The Returns to Education for Opportunity Entrepreneurs, Necessity Entrepreneurs, and Paid Employees
Fossen, Frank M.; Büttner, Tobias J. M. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
employment options. We expect differences in the returns to education between these groups because of different levels of control …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128972
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Multidimensional Measurement of Richness: Theory and an Application to Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
children. Mobility between different affluence counts between 2002 and 2007 is rather low and existing changes are mostly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008522629
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Lower and Upper Bounds of Unfair Inequality: Theory and Evidence for Germany and the US
Niehues, Judith; Peichl, Andreas - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
countries. We discuss the cross-country differences and similarities in IOp in the light of differences in social mobility and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009277156
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Distributional Consequences of Labor Demand Adjustments to a Downturn: A Model-Based Approach with Applications to Germany 2008-09
Bargain, Oliver; Immervoll, Herwig; Peichl, Andreas; … - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
Macro-level changes can have substantial effects on the distribution of resources at the household level. While it is … and predict the effects of output shocks at a disaggregated level. The predicted employment effects are then transposed to … household-level microdata, in order to analyze the incidence of rising unemployment and reduced working hours on poverty and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685268
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Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity: Do These Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics?
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in both positively and negatively reciprocal ways. So far it is rarely analyzed whether these variables of social cognition influence everyday decision making behavior. We focus on entrepreneurs who are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784518
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The Impact of Risk Attitudes on Entrepreneurial Survival
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008
Risk attitudes have an impact on not only the decision to become an entrepreneur but also the survival and failure rates of entrepreneurs. Whereas recent research underpins the theoretical proposition of a positive correlation between risk attitudes and the decision to become an entrepreneur,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069129
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Risky Earnings, Taxation and Entrepreneurial Choice: A Microeconometric Model for Germany
Fossen, Frank M. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007
model of occupational choice, higher expected after-tax earnings attract people to self-employment, while more risky net … earnings deter risk-averse individuals. In this paper I analyse the expected value and variance of income in self-employment … and dependent employment empirically, accounting for selection. Based on this analysis, structural models of self-employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017467
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The Politicians' Wage Gap: Insights from German Members of Parliament
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Siegloch, Sebastian - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
Using a unique dataset of German members of parliament with information on total earnings including outside income, this paper analyzes the politicians' wage gap (PWG). After controlling for observable characteristics as well as accounting for selection into politics, we find a positive PWG...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876555