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Short-Run and Long-Term Effects of Childbirth on Mother's employment and working hours across institutional regimes : an empirical analysis based on the European community househol...

Geyer, Johannes; Steiner, Viktor - 2007

Denmark, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, which represent four distinct ?institutional regimes?, we estimate the short …

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The Inventory Cycle of the German Economy

Knetsch, Thomas A. - 2004

analyze recent stockbuilding trends in Germany, we propose a composite index aggregating information drawn from monthly …

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Evaluating the German Inventory Cycle Using Data from the Ifo Business Survey

Knetsch, Thomas A. - 2004

Inventory fluctuations are an important phenomenon in business cycles. However, the preliminary data on inventory investment as published in the German national accounts are tremendously prone to revision and therefore ill-equipped to diagnose the current stance of the inventory cycle. The Ifo...

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Trend and cycle features in German residential investment before and after reunification

Knetsch, Thomas A. - 2010

Real residential investment in Germany is found to be cointegrated with population, real national income per capita and …

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Income and longevity revisited: Do high-earning women live longer?

Breyer, Friedrich; Marcus, Jan - 2010

The empirical relationship between income and longevity has been addressed by a large number of studies, but most were confined to men. In particular, administrative data from public pension systems are less reliable for women because of the loose relationship between own earnings and household...

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Why Are Mothers Working Longer Hours in Austria than in Germany? A Comparative Micro Simulation Analysis

Dearing, Helene; Hofer, Helmut; Lietz, Christine; … - 2007

Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are …, differences in mothers? employment patterns can partly be explained by the different tax systems: While Germany has a system of …

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Labor Supply and Child Care Choices in a Rationed Child Care Market

Wrohlich, Katharina - 2006

Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and private child care is only available at considerably higher cost. I use a …

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Income Taxation and Household Size: Would French Family Splitting Make German Families Better off?

Baclet, Alexandre; Dell, Fabien; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2005

in Germany, as it is often claimed in the public debate. We use two micro-data sets and a micro-simulation model to … compare effective average tax rates for different household types in France and Germany. Our analysis shows that the popular …. Actually, low income families with less than three children even fare better in terms of tax relief in Germany than in France …

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How you ask is what you get: Willingness-to-pay for a QALY in Germany

Ahlert, Marlis; Breyer, Friedrich; Schwettmann, Lars - 2014

We report results of a survey of a representative sample of the German population in which respondents were asked for their willingness-to-pay (WTP) for either an extension of their life or an improvement in their health corresponding to a gain of one quality-adjusted life year (QALY). While one...

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Do entrepreneurs really earn less?

Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander - 2014

Based on representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our …

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