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state of Berlin and the federal level in Germany. State voting intentions for the state and for the federal parliament are …
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concludes with an empirical application to consumer price inflation in Germany, France and Italy, and re-examines the extent to …
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This note provides evidence for the relationship between income comparisons and subjective well-being (SWB), using novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative income for seven reference groups. We find negative correlations between comparison intensity and SWB...
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The purpose of this paper is to assess intergenerational occupational mobility in Germany. Using data from the … Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP), we find a high persistence of occupational choices across fathers and children. To separate effects …
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a balanced panel dataset on German firms that covers 35 years (1971-2005) and about 1,500 firms per year. In contrast to … trends in unconditional firm level and aggregated output volatility in Germany are similar. There has been a long …
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newly compiled database covering the years 1950 - 2011. Unlike previous studies on Germany, we analyze fiscal sustainability … by applying "gsecond generation" panel cointegration techniques. A unique identification strategy for the selection of … sub-panels improves the robustness of panel cointegration tests and reveals that Laender finances are hardly sustainable. …
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This paper analyses how demographic changes of the labour force affect labour demand. Do firms adjust their hiring behaviour to an ageing society? Combining data at the firm level and the administrative district level, we analyse the hiring behaviour of firms. Our findings suggest that firms...
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collected in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) to longitudinal analyses, using linear fixed-effects models and fixed …
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unbalanced panel over the transition period 1994 to 1998. We adopt a translog stochastic frontier model to estimate technical … efficiency in eastern and western Germany. The results indicate that firms in eastern Germany are significantly less efficient … than firms in western Germany. The paper also examines some of the possible correlates of regional variations in firm …
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-specifications, which are more pronounced for long-term works councilors. Moreover, we observe no wage premia in linear fixed-effects panel …
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