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The Effects of Mobility on Neighbourhood Social Ties

Knies, Gundi - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009

This research examines the strength of people's ties with close neighbours and the sensitivity thereof to changes in residential mobility, access to modes of public and private transport, and changes in the availability of modern communications technologies using the German Socio-economic Panel...

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Neighborhood Effects and Individual Unemployment

Bauer, Thomas K.; Fertig, Michael; Vorell, Matthias - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011

Using a unique dataset for Germany that links individual longitudinal data from the SOEP to regional data from the federal employment agency and data of real estate prices, we evaluate the impact of neighborhood unemployment on individual employment propects. The panel setup and richness of the...

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Happy House: Spousal Weight and Individual Well-Being

Clark, Andrew E.; Etilé, Fabrice - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010

We use life satisfaction and Body Mass Index (BMI) information from three waves of the SOEP to test for social interactions in BMI between spouses. Social interactions require that the cross-partial effect of partner's weight and own weight in the utility function be positive. Using life...

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Parental Investment and the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Preferences and Attitudes

Zumbuehl, Maria; Dohmen, Thomas; Pfann, Gerard - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

We study empirically whether there is scope for parents to shape the economic preferences and attitudes of their children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children, as well as rich information about parental efforts in...

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Gregariousness, Interactive Jobs and Wages

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Schulz, Nico Johannes - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011

Gregariousness is an important aspect of human life with implications for labour market outcomes. The paper examines, to the best of our knowledge for the first time for Germany, gregariousness and social interaction at the workplace and associated wage differentials. Our empirical findings with...

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Wie progressiv ist Deutschland?: Das Steuer- und Transfersystem im europäischen Vergleich

Peichl, Andreas; Schaefer, Thilo - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008

the ongoing policy debate in Germany. In this paper, we compare the progressivity and redistribution induced by the tax … tax benefit systems in a common framework. We compute several measures of progressivity and redistribution for the whole … the countries according to their progressivity and level of redistribution. Our analysis shows that there is considerable …

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Kosten und Nutzen der Sparsamkeit: zur Erhebung sozialer Netzwerke und sozialer Unterstützungspotentiale in der Umfrageforschung

Sattler, Sebastian; Diewald, Martin - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009

Measuring ego-centered networks is an especially time-expensive endeavor. However, to be included in multi-thematic surveys, parsimony is needed instead of following a maximizing strategy. Therefore, one pressing questions is, whether and which type of parsimonious data collection produces what...

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Preferences for Childcare Policies: Theory and Evidence

Borck, Rainald; Wrohlich, Katharina - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008

We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer private provision to either pure public or mixed provision. If public provision redistributes from...

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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

Previous estimates of unfair inequality of opportunity (IOp) are only lower bounds because of the unobservability of the full set of endowed circumstances beyond the sphere of individual responsibility. In this paper, we suggest a new estimator based on a fixed effects panel model which...

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Social Spending Generosity and Income Inequality: A Dynamic Panel Approach

Niehues, Judith - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010

This paper explores whether more generous social spending polices in fact lead to less income inequality, or if redistributive outcomes are offset by behavioral disincentive effects. To account for the inherent endogeneity of social policies with regard to inequality levels, I apply the System...

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