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Wealth Shocks and Health Outcomes: Evidence from Stock Market Fluctuations
Schwandt, Hannes - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Do wealth shocks affect the health of the elderly in developed countries? The economic literature is skeptical about such effects which have so far only been found for poor retirees in poor countries. In this paper I show that wealth shocks also matter for the health of wealthy retirees in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884277
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The Impact of Household Capital Income on Income Inequality: A Factor Decomposition Analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA
Fräßdorf, Anna; Grabka, Markus M.; Schwarze, Johannes - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a factor decomposition method described by Shorrocks (1982) is applied … contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762379
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Accounting for Imputed and Capital Income Flows in Income Inequality Analyses
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
-occupied housing) have become increasingly important sources of economic inequality in Germany over the last two decades. Whereas the … effects to increase over time. The analyses presented here, exemplified for Germany, make a clear case for the joint …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008558933
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Taking a Second Chance: Entrepreneurial Restarters in Germany
Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Folklore has it that the comparatively low proportion of self-employed in Germany is in part due to a habit that might …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822063
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How Rigid are Nominal Wages? Evidence and Implications for Germany
Knoppik, Christoph; Beissinger, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
Many of the recent attempts to find evidence of downward nominal wage rigidity in micro data have suffered from a number of problems, including composition bias and the effects of measurement error. In order to avoid these problems we explicitly model the determinants of wage changes and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822114
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The Persistent Decline in Unionization in Western and Eastern Germany, 1980-2004: What Can We Learn from a Decomposition Analysis?
Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
western Germany from 1980 to 2004 and in eastern Germany from 1992 to 2004. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and … worker (significant in western Germany only). A decomposition analysis shows that differences in union density over time and … between eastern and western Germany to a large degree cannot be explained by differences in the characteristics of employees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822128
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Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in Small Establishments
Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Bonin, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Based on a large employer-employee matched data set, the paper investigates the effects of variable enforcement of German dismissal protection legislation on the employment dynamics in small establishments. Specifically, using a difference-in-differences approach, we study the effect of changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822158
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Do Works Councils Inhibit Investment?
Addison, John T.; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
context of Germany where the works council is the analogue of workplace unionism. Using parametric and nonparametric methods …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822189
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Norm-Based Trade Union Membership: Evidence for Germany
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
for social custom effects in the determination of union membership. Using panel data for Germany, we find evidence for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822193
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Der Arbeitsmarkt in Deutschland: Zwischen Strukturreformen und sozialpolitischem Reflex
Eichhorst, Werner - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Die Arbeitsmarktreformen der letzten Jahre haben die strukturellen Anpassungsprobleme des deutschen Beschäftigungsmodells zum Teil gelindert - allerdings sind noch längst nicht alle Schwierigkeiten überwunden. Für die Zukunft besteht die zentrale Herausforderung darin, eine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822255