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Triggers and Determinants of Severe Household Indebtedness in Germany
Keese, Matthias - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
-) indebtedness which relate household income and debt services to different concepts of subsistence levels, this paper investigates … whether severe household indebtedness is driven by trigger events such as unemployment, childbirth, divorce, or the death of … are likely to cause severe household indebtedness. Unemployment also worsens the relative debt situation mainly due to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008469700
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Unfair Pay and Health
Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Menrath, Ingo; Verde, Pablo … - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. We use an integrated approach exploiting complementarities between controlled lab and representative field data. In a simple principal-agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098748
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Mortgage Market Maturity and Homeownership Inequality among Young Households: A Five-Country Perspective
Bicakova, Alena; Sierminska, Eva M. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008
household income. Finland and the US are in-between. Counterfactual predictions suggest that although household characteristics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017492
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Shifting Taxes from Labor to Consumption: Efficient, but Regressive?
Pestel, Nico; Sommer, Eric - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
Shifting taxes from labor income to consumption is regularly suggested as a measure to induce work incentives. We investigate the effect of increases in the Value Added Tax on labor supply and the income distribution in Germany, which is compensated by a revenue-neutral reduction in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896280
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Older or Wealthier?: The Impact of Age Adjustments on the Wealth Inequality Ranking of Countries
Almas, Ingvild; Mogstady, Magne - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
Differences in individual wealth holdings are widely viewed as a driving force of economic inequality. However, as this finding relies on cross-section data, we may confuse older with wealthier. We propose a new method to adjust for age effects in cross-sections, which eliminates transitory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017433
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Erbschaftsteuerreform: gleichmäßige Vermögenserfassung und niedrigere Steuersätze statt selektiver Besteuerung
Bach, Stefan; Houben, Henriette; Maiterth, Ralf; … - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007
Die Erbschaft- und Schenkungsteuer muss grundlegend reformiert werden. Grund- und Betriebsvermögen sollen nach dem Ertragswertverfahren bewertet werden. Das bedeutet eine deutliche Annäherung an die Verkehrswerte, macht jedoch das Besteuerungsverfahren aufwändiger und streitanfälliger. Ein...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017476
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Financial Risk Aversion and Household Asset Diversification
Barasinska, Nataliya; Schäfer, Dorothea; Stephan, Andreas - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008
This paper explores the relationship between risk attitude and asset diversification in household portfolios. We first … socioeconomic characteristics, the propensity for taking investment risk is an important predictor of a household's diversification …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018697
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Broke, Ill, and Obese: The Effect of Household Debt on Health
Keese, Matthias; Schmitz, Hendrik - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
household indebtedness, such as the percentage shares of household income spent on consumer credit and home loan repayments …We analyze the effect of household indebtedness on different health outcomes using data from the German Socio … (which indicate the severity of household indebtedness) and a binary variable of relative overindebtedness (which indicates a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008788719
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The Standard Portfolio Choice Problem in Germany
Huck, Steffen; Schmidt, Tobias; Weizsäcker, Georg - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
We study behavior in an investment experiment conducted with a representative sample of German households (SOEP-IS). Respondents allocate a fixed budget between a safe asset and a risky asset whose returns are tied to the German stock market and earn monetary returns based on their decisions....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011129002
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Savings and Consumption When Children Move Out
Rottke, Simon; Klos, Alexander - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
Based on the Italian Survey on Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) and the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP), we show … that household consumption drops after a child moves out of a household, while at the same time, per capita consumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896273