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The personal distribution of income and imputed rent: A cross-national comparison for the UK, West Germany, and the USA

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2002

differences between the Anglo-Saxon countries and Germany in terms of prevalence and extent of IR as well as in terms of the …

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Social custom, free-riders, and trade union membership in Germany and Great Britain

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 1998

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Unit Labor Cost Growth Differentials in the Euro Area, Germany, and the US: Lessons from PANIC and Cluster Analysis

Fritsche, Ulrich; Kuzin, Vladimir N. - 2007

Inflation differentials in the Euro area are mainly due to a sustained divergence of wage developments across the Euro area, and narrower differences in labour productivity growth (Alvarez et al., 2006). We investigate convergence of inflation using unit labour cost (ULC) growth and applying...

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The relationship between pet ownership and health outcomes: German longitudinal evidence

Headey, Bruce; Grabka, Markus M. - 2004

Previous cross-sectional and intervention studies have suggested that pet owners may enjoy better physical and mental health than non-owners. This paper presents longitudinal evidence from a major national representative longitudinal survey: the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Because the...

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'Marginal Employment' and the Demand for Heterogenous Labour: Empirical Evidence from a Multi-Factor Labour Demand Model for Germany

Freier, Ronny; Steiner, Viktor - 2007

marginal employment range between -.4 (number of male workers in west Germany) to -1 (working hours for women). We illustrate …? social security contributions (SSC) on marginal employment in Germany. …

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In vino pecunia? The association between beverage-specific drinking behavior and wages

Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2008

-based microdata from the GSOEP for 2006, we confirm that this relationship exists for Germany as well. More importantly, we shed light …

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Examining the gender wealth gap in Germany

Sierminska, Eva M.; Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2008

evidence for a significant gender wealth gap of about 30,000 euros in Germany, which amounts to almost 50,000 euros for married …

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Asymmetric monetary policy effects in Germany

Tober, Silke; Kuzin, Vladimir N. - 2004

In a small structural model we find asymmetries in the effects of monetary policy in Germany depending on whether the …

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Declining Output Volatility in Germany : Impulses, Propagation, and the Role of Monetary Policy

Fritsche, Ulrich; Kuzin, Vladimir N. - 2004

We analyse the decline in output volatility in Germany. A lower level of variance in an autoregressive model of output … error term variance (reduced impulses). In Germany the decline output volatility is due to a decline in the persistence of … sudden break. The evolution of Germany's short-term real interest rate volatility coincides with the change of the …

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Incumbency as the major advantage: The electoral advantage for parties of incumbent mayors

Freier, Ronny - 2011

This paper provides empirical evidence on the party incumbency advantage in mayoral elections in Germany. Using a …

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