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Die Studie basiert auf einer empirischen Analyse des Innovationsgeschehens in vier ostdeutschen Fallstudienregionen Dresden, Halle, Jena und Rostock. Alle vier Regionen besitzen sowohl eine universitäre als auch eine industrielle Tradition. Die Entwicklungsverläufe seit dem Systembruch im Jahr...
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and pension wealth – for two countries: the United States and Germany. Pension wealth makes up a considerable portion of … household wealth: about 48% in the United States and 61% in Germany. The higher share in Germany narrows the wealth gap between … Germany, augmented wealth (US$651,000) is only 1.4 times higher. Further, the inclusion of pension wealth in household wealth …
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of the two) in Germany. Further, we investigate age‐wealth‐profiles and differences between East and West Germany …
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-based microdata from the GSOEP for 2006, we confirm that this relationship exists for Germany as well. More importantly, we shed light …
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In response to increasing health expenditures and a high number of physician visits, the German government introduced a copayment for ambulatory care in 2004 for individuals with statutory health insurance (SHI). Because persons with private insurance were exempt from the copayments, this health...
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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 …
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We investigate the effect of broad personality traits — the Big Five — on an individual’s decision to become self-employed. In particular, we test an overall indicator of the entrepreneurial personality. Since we find that the level of selfemployment varies considerably across professions,...
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We investigate the effect of broad personality traits — the Big Five — on an individual’s decision to become self-employed. In particular, we test an overall indicator of the entrepreneurial personality. Since we find that the level of selfemployment varies considerably across professions,...
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This paper presents and compares trends in income inequality in Switzerland and Germany from 2000 to 2009 using … harmonized data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the Swiss Household Panel (SHP). Whereas in Germany inequality has … inequality reveals the effects of Germany's slightly older population and smaller household sizes, as well as the impact of …
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