I investigate how government ideology and globalization are associated with top income shares in 16 OECD countries over the period 1970 to 2010. I use the new World Top Incomes Database. Globalization is measured by the KOF index of globalization. The results show that the top 1% income share...

With the world-wide spread of the internet in the 1990s, the conduction of web or e-mailsurveys became popular in research. Although these surveys provide fast data collectionand reduced costs, results may suffer from biases due to the survey mode. While a varietyof studies concerning mode...

This volume was prepared by Susanne Link during her stay at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and the Department of Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute of Economic Research. It was accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Departure of the University of Munich in...

Business cycle indicators based on the balance statistics are a widely used method tomonitor the actual economic situation. In contrast to official data, indicators frombusiness surveys are early available and typically not revised after their first publication.But as surveys can be in general...

Surveys are a widely used tool to answer socio-economic research question across disciplines. However, data collection can face certain problems such as nonresponding units. For household and population surveys, a large body of literature about the effects of nonresponse exist but only less is...

Former theoretical and empirical studies find that precautionary savings are reduced inthe presence of social security systems. The saving motive, however, does not change:individuals respond to increasing income risk by increasing their savings. Although thisstill holds for common tax and...

In this paper we analyze the impact of the expectations about future labor income on thesaving behavior of German households. We measure expectations on an individual basisinstead of generalized risk measures as it is common in existing studies. We use aunique panel data set on household...

We use an augmented gravity model to revisit the effect of similarity in income distributionson bilateral trade flows. Disentangling supply-side and demand-side mechanisms,we document a robust new regularity: while differences in average incomes betweentwo countries increase trade, differences...

Ziel der vorliegenden Studie ist es, die Kostenstrukturen und den Finanzbedarf ausgewählter Träger der überörtlichen Sozialhilfe zu analysieren. Ausgehend von der speziellen Problematik der "Kostenexplosion" bei der überörtlichen Sozialhilfe im Freistaat Sachsen werden in dieser Studie die...

Die vorliegende Studie wurde im Arbeitsbereich "Konjunktur und Finanzmärkte" erstellt und im Dezember 2005 abgeschlossen. Auftraggeber war das Bundesministerium der Finanzen. Gegenstand der Studie sind die Auswirkungen von Vermögenspreisschwankungen auf die gesamtwirtschaftliche Aktivität. In...