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Mortgage market maturity and homeownership inequality among young households : a five-country perspective

Bičáková, Alena (contributor); … - 2008

rates and the homeownership-income inequality among young households in Finland, Germany, Italy, the UK and the US, and … highest and most equally distributed homeownership in this country as well. The mortgage market in Germany is on the other …

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Obesity and developmental functioning among children aged 2-4 years

Cawley, John H. (contributor); … - 2008

providers. -- Obesity ; human capital ; children ; child development ; Germany ; gender …

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Gender, migration, remittances : evidence from Germany

Holst, Elke (contributor); Schäfer, Andrea (contributor); … - 2008

2007, about 7.3 million foreigners were living in Germany. While the total number of foreigners has decreased over the last … decade, female migration to Germany has increased. Today, women constitute 48.6% of migratory flows to Germany, although the …-specific determinants of remittances from Germany. Here we attempt to fill this gap, focusing on gender roles and network effects. We …

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Introducing Family Tax Splitting in Germany : How Would It Affect the Income Distribution and Work Incentives?

Steiner, Viktor (contributor); … - 2006

We analyze the effects of three alternative proposals to reform the taxation of families relative to the current German system of joint taxation of couples and child allowances: a French-type family splitting and two full family splitting proposals. The empirical analysis of the effects of these...

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Income inequality in the 1990s : comparing the United States, Great Britain and Germany

Burkhauser, Richard V. (contributor); … - 2006

and the Socio-Economic Panel in Germany we find gains from economic growth in the United States over their 1990s business …-1989). Furthermore, they were more equitably distributed than were the gains in Germany over their 1990s business cycle (1991 … States and Great Britain the entire income distribution moved upward in the 1990s. In Germany, as was the case in the United …

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Gender differences in entrepreneurial choice and risk aversion : a decomposition based on a microeconometric model

Fossen, Frank M. - 2009

in Germany. To explain the gender gap, a structural microeconometric model of the transition rates is estimated, which …

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Ethnic self-identification of first-generation immigrants

Zimmermann, Laura (contributor); … - 2006

This paper uses the concept of ethnic self-identification of immigrants in a twodimensional framework. It acknowledges the fact that attachments to the home and the host country are not necessarily mutually exclusive. There are three possible paths of adjustment from separation at entry, namely...

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Keeping up with the Schmidts : an empirical test of relative deprivation theory in the neighbourhood context

Knies, Gundi (contributor); Burgess, Simon M. (contributor); … - 2007

We test empirically whether people’s life satisfaction depends on their relative income position in the neighbourhood, drawing on a unique dataset, the German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP) matched with micro-marketing indicators of population characteristics. Relative deprivation theory...

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Individual well-being in a dynamic perspective

D'Ambrosio, Conchita (contributor); … - 2007

This paper explores the determinants of individual well-being as measured by self-reported levels of satisfaction with income. Making full use of the panel data nature of the German Socio-Economic Panel, we provide empirical evidence for well-being depending on absolute and on relative levels of...

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From bottom to top : the entire distribution of market income in Germany, 1992-2001

Bach, Stefan (contributor); Corneo, Giacomo (contributor); … - 2007

We analyze the distribution and concentration of market incomes in Germany in the period 1992 to 2001 on the basis of … income inequality was stronger in East Germany than in West Germany. In both regions, the income concentration process …

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