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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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Umfang und Kompensation von Überstunden : eine vergleichende Analyse für Westdeutschland und Großbritannien

Wagner, Gert G.; Pannenberg, Markus - 2000

In the 1990s overtime incidence in Great Britain and West Germany is quite similar, while the average amount of hours … of overtime for full-time male workers with overtime in Great Britain is roughly twice those in Germany for all years. We … time. In Germany, we observe a remarkable decrease in the share of workers who work paid overtime and a significant …

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Are People Inequality Averse, and Do They Prefer Redistribution by the State? Evidence from German Longitudinal Data on Life Satisfaction

Schwarze, Johannes; Härpfer, Marco - 2004

We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre- and post-government income distribution at the regional level, to estimate the degree of inequality aversion. Three different inequality measures are used. In addition, we investigate whether a reduction in inequality by the state...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324200

Self-rated health and changes in self-rated health as predictors of mortality: First evidence from German panel data

Schwarze, Johannes; Andersen, Hanfried H.; Anger, Silke - 2000

, there have been no studies conducted for Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) we confirm … the relationship between self-rated health and mortality for Germany. In addition the GSOEP data enable an exploration of …

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Documentation of sample sizes and panel attrition in the German Socio Economic Panel (GSOEP): (1984 until 1999)

Pannenberg, Markus - 2000

The paper provides information on sample sizes and panel attrition in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) for the years 1984 – 1999. Furthermore, results of the sequential estimation of non-response probabilities for the different subsamples of the GSOEP are described in detail.

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Documentation of sample sizes and panel attrition in the German socio economic panel (GSOEP) : 1984 until 1998

Pannenberg, Markus - 2000

[Contents] 1 Development of sample sizes 2 1.1 Development of the number of successful interviews by cross-section 2 1.2 Longitudinal development of losses due to panel attrition 10 1.3 Entrants by birth or move-ins and their participation behavior 14 2 Losses due to unsuccessful follow-up 15...

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Using Panel Data on Income Satisfaction to Estimate the Equivalence Scale Elasticity

Schwarze, Johannes - 2000

In this paper a new method to estimate the equivalence scale elasticity using individual panel data on income satisfaction will be developed. In contrast to other subjective approaches, the present one benefits from the fact that no direct cardinal individual welfare function has to be...

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Are People Inequality Averse, and Do They Prefer Redistribution by the State? Evidence From German Longitudinal Data on Life Satisfaction

Schwarze, Johannes; Härpfer, Marco - 2002

We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre-government income distribution at the regional level, to estimate the degree of inequality aversion. In addition, we investigate whether a reduction in inequality by the state increases individual well-being. We find that Germans are...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260794

Long - Term Effects of Unpaid Overtime: Evidence for West Germany

Pannenberg, Markus - 2002

overtime in West Germany. A descriptive analysis suggests that over a 10-year period workers with unpaid overtime experience on …

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What can happiness research tell us about altruism? Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel

Schwarze, Johannes; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2005

Much progress has been made in recent years on developing and applying a direct measure of utility using survey questions on subjective well-being. In this paper we explore whether this new type of measurement can be fruitfully applied to the study of interdependent utility in general, and...

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