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Inequality in income and satisfaction: A comparison of east und west Germans before and after unification
Hauser, Richard; Frick, Joachim; Müller, Klaus; … - 1993
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Choices which change life satisfaction: Revising SWB theory to account for change
Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud; Wagner, Gert G. - 2010
Using data from the long-running German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984-2008, this paper analyses the effects of individual preferences and choices on subjective well-being (SWB). It is shown that preferences and choices relating to life goals/values, partner's personality, hours of work,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271354
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A nation-wide laboratory : Examining trust and trustworthiness by integrating behavioral experiments into representative surveys
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; von Rosenbladt, Bernhard; … - 2002
Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and self-selection biases. The usefulness of survey data is limited by measurement error and by the questionability of their behavioral relevance. Here we present a method integrating interactive experiments and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276356
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A forgotten issue: distributional effects of day care subsidies in Germany
Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Spieß, Christa Katharina; … - 2000
bedürfen. Wie in einigen anderen europäischen Staaten werden auch in Deutschland bestimmte Anbieter von … Kindertageseinrichtungen in Deutschland, indem wir Mikrodaten auf Haushaltsebene mit Informationen über die öffentlichen Ausgaben im Bereich …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276742
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Automatic Identification of Faked and Fraudulent Interviews in Surveys by Two Different Methods
Schäfer, Christin; Schräpler, Jörg-Peter; Müller, … - 2004
This paper presents two new tools for the identification of faking interviewers in surveys. One method is based on Benford?s Law, and the other exploits the empirical observation that fakers most often produce answers with less variability than could be expected from the whole survey. We focus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277054
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The Political Economy of Natural Disaster Insurance: Lessons from the Failure of a Proposed Compulsory Insurance Scheme in Germany
Schwarze, Reimund; Wagner, Gert G. - 2006
Elementarschäden in Deutschland. Nach einer Darlegung der ökonomischen Vorteilhaftigkeit und der Grundzüge eines praktikablen Modells …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277057
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The institutional framework of ethnic inclusion and exclusion: A cross-national analysis of the earnings of foreigners in Germany and immigrants in Canada
Reitz, Jeffrey G.; Frick, Joachim R.; Calabrese, Tony; … - 1998
The European social-welfare model differs from the North American individualistic model in the patterns, more than the overall extent, of ethnic inclusion and exclusion. Focussing on foreigners in Germany and immigrants in Canada as illustrative cases, conventional earnings decomposition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283781
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Identification, Characteristics and Impact of Faked Interviews in Surveys : An analysis by means of genuine fakes in the raw data of SOEP
Wagner, Gert G.; Schraepler, Joerg-Peter - 2003
To the best of our knowledge, most of the few methodological studies which analyze the impact of faked interviews on survey results are based on 'artificial fakes' generated by project students in a 'laboratory environment'. In contrast, panel data provide a unique opportunity to identify data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260714
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Reform of the public pension system in Germany
Konrad, Kai A.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2000
This paper studies the current crisis in the German pension system and discusses the various reform proposals.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260737
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Short term living conditions and long term prospects of immigrant children in Germany
Frick, Joachim R.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2000
Der im Ausland geborene Teil der in Deutschland lebenden Bevölkerung besteht aus Ausländern und Aussiedlern, die aus … osteuropäischen Ländern nach Deutschland emigriert sind. Während die erste Gruppe mit Problemen konfrontiert ist, die aus dem typisch … deutschen Pass. Etwa die Hälfte der Immigranten, die seit 1984 nach Deutschland kamen, sind der Gruppe der Aussiedler …
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