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Real wage growth over the business cycle:contractual versus spot markets
Bellou, Andriana; Kaymak, Baris - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We study the wage growth of job stayers over the business cycle, and show that wage adjustments within a job spell display significant history dependence. This is at odds with the spot market model, which implies that the wage growth of a worker within a job spell depends solely on the change in...
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The Value of Commitment: Marriage Choice in the Presence of Costly Divorce
Yurko, Anna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Two individuals may choose to enter a coresidential relationship, which may or may not include joint property ownership and raising children. In addition to that, individuals may decide to formalize this contractual relationship by holding a marriage ceremony. The literature on coresidential...
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Income, gender and consumption: A study of Malawian households
Davies, Simon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
of total household income accruing to different individuals within the household. Specifically, male and female income … clothing. Consumption choices are influenced by both the income and education of the main male and female members, and … crucially, the impact of income shares on household consumption is non-linear. …
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Fertility and pension systems
Rizzo, Giuseppe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In the last century, state pension systems have been introduced in most countries, and since then their size has been significantly increasing. A broad literature has studied this phenomenon, developing models that explain why pension systems exist and have been continuously expanding. At the...
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Matching Markets with N-Dimensional Preferences
Flanders, Sam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
preferences over many characteristics (e.g. height, income, age, etc.) and have the option to pay to join the platform or look for …
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Costly Divorce and Marriage Rates
Yurko, Anna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper develops a model of choice between marriage and cohabitation to study the effect of divorce costs on marriage decision. The paired agents are heterogeneous, the utility is non-transferable, and break up and divorce decisions are modeled explicitly as unilateral, that is, it takes the...
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Institutions, Family and Economic Performance
Cid, Alejandro; Viana, Luis; Presno, Ignacio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
It is usual to formulate policies that react on the consequences, not the causes of family structure. In the design of policies, it is important to consider that institutions evolve in response to individual incentives and affect the performance of political and economic systems. Formal rules...
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How Would your Kids Vote if I Open my Doors? Evidence from Venezuela
Rodriguez, Francisco; Wagner, Rodrigo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
For how long does cultural heritage persist? Do the culturally inherited values of immigrants dilute as generations pass? We answer these question by studying the relationship between revealed political behavior of immigrant families and the culture of the place where they migrated from, either...
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Zum Einkommen der Freien Berufe Eine Ordered Probit-Analyse ihrer Determinanten auf Basis der FFB-Onlineumfrage
Merz, Joachim; Paic, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht aus einer mikroökonomischen Perspektive die Determinanten des Einkommens aus einer freiberuflichen Tätigkeit. Im Gegensatz zu bisherigen Veröffentlichungen stützen sich die Analysen auf eine primär zu den Freien Berufen erhobene neue Datenbasis...
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Freie Berufe im Mikrozensus II - Einkommen und Einkommensverteilung anhand der ersten Ergebnisse für die neuen und alten Bundesländer 1991
Merz, Joachim; Kirsten, Dagmar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1995
Die Studie untersucht die Einkommen und die Einkommensverteilung der Freien Berufe anhand der Mikrozensusergebnisse für … Mikrozensusangaben der insgesamt 800.000 Befragten aus einer Sonderauswertung für die Freien Berufe werden Einkommen und …-Selbständige) gegenübergestellt. Dem Einkommen und der Einkommensverteilung der selbständigen Frauen in Freien Berufen im Vergleich zu den Männern ist …
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