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Conspicuous Consumption and Communism : Evidence from East and West Germany
Friehe, Tim - 2012
This paper investigates the influence of the political regime on the relative importance of conspicuous consumption. We use the separation of Germany into the communist GDR and the democratic FRG and its reunification in 1990 as a natural experiment. Relying on household data that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100938
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Don't Raise the Retirement Age! An Experiment on Opposition to Pension Reforms and East-West Differences in Germany
Scheubel, Beatrice - 2009
For policy reforms to increase a society's welfare, reliable information on people's prefer-ences and expectations is crucial. Representative opinion polls, often involving simplified questions about the complex topics under debate, are an important source of information for both policy-makers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156875
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Induced Civic Pride and Integration
Süssmuth, Bernd - 2009
This paper investigates whether a nation's contingent value of hosting a mega-event depends on past experience with implied public goods benefits for its residents. Applying data from an ex-ante and ex-post query based on contingent valuation methods, we use the FIFA World Cup 2006 as a natural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764394
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Apprenticeship, Vocational Training and Early Labor Market Outcomes - In East and West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T. - 2015
We study the returns to apprenticeship and vocational training for three early labor market outcomes all measured at age 25 for East and West German youths: non-employment (i.e., unemployment or out of the labor force), permanent fulltime employment, and wages. We find strong positive effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024593
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A Different Look at Lenin's Legacy : Trust, Risk, Fairness and Cooperativeness in the Two Germanies
Heineck, Guido; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2021
. In comparison to West Germans, they are also less inclined to see others as fair or helpful. Implied trajectories can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316149
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The Employment of Mothers - Recent Developments and Their Determinants in East and West Germany
Broadway, Barbara; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2021
We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences disappear over time, and whether there are differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316151
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From Politics to the Family : How Sex-Role Attitudes Keep on Diverging in Reunified Germany
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Rainer, Helmut - 2021
What is the role of politics in shaping attitudes about appropriate roles for women in the family and the compatibility of work and motherhood? In this paper we argue that the German separation and later reunification produced a natural experiment to address this question. During the divided...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316245
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Tear Down this Wall : On the Persistence of Borders in Trade
Nitsch, Volker - 2009
Why do borders still matter for economic activity? The reunification of Germany in 1990 provides a unique natural experiment for examining the effect of political borders on trade both in the cross-section and over time. With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rapid formation of a political and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154269
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Wage Inequality in Germany : Disentangling Demand and Supply Effects
Stimmelmayr, Michael - 2021
In this paper we conduct a counterfactual analysis and estimate the quantitative importance of demand and supply effects on wage inequality in Germany using a dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of the Auerbach-Kotlikoff (1987) type. Specifically, the methodological contribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316312
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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth
Sacks, Daniel W. - 2011
most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is … higher in countries with greater GDP per capita. The magnitude of the satisfaction-income gradient is roughly the same …-being. Finally, studying changes in satisfaction over time, we find that as countries experience economic growth, their citizens …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132796