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Long-Run Effects of Gestation During the Dutch Hunger Winter Famine on Labor Market and Hospitalization Outcomes

Scholte, Robert; den Berg, Gerard J. van; Lindeboom, Maarten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

The Dutch Hunger Winter (1944/45) is the most-studied famine in the literature on long-run effects of malnutrition in utero. Its temporal and spatial demarcations are clear, it was severe, it was not anticipated, and nutritional conditions in society were favorable and stable before and after...

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Does the Choice of Well-Being Measure Matter Empirically? An Illustration with German Data

Decancq, Koen; Neumann, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We discuss and compare five measures of individual well-being, namely income, an objective composite well-being index, a measure of subjective well-being, equivalent income, and a well-being measure based on the von Neumann-Morgenstern utilities of the individuals. After examining the...

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Lingering Illness or Sudden Death? Pre-Exit Employment Developments in German Establishments

Fackler, Daniel; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving … establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear "shadow of death" effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments … are more clearly visible in West than in East Germany. Our results also hold when applying a matching approach. …

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Establishment Exits in Germany: The Role of Size and Age

Fackler, Daniel; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Using comprehensive data for West Germany, this paper investigates the determinants of establishment exit. We find that …

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Survival of Spinoffs and Other Startups: First Evidence for the Private Sector in Germany, 1976-2008

Fackler, Daniel; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

find that spinoffs are less likely to exit than other startups. We show that in West and East Germany and in all sectors …

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Do Entrepreneurs Really Earn Less?

Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Based on representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our …

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