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Do Cross-National Differences in the Costs of Children Generate Cross-National Differences in Fertility Rates?

Pacalova, Hana; Engelhardt, Henriette; Morgan, S. Philip; … - 2003

countries (the US, West Germany, Denmark, Italy, and the United Kingdom), whose fertility rates span the observed fertility …

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Innovation Clusters : Combining Physical and Virtual Links

Preissl, Brigitte - 2003

Innovation is increasingly seen as a collective action which involves many different actors operating in a cluster context. These clusters are usually conceived as local agglomerations. In this paper it will be argued that they are an important tool to study innovation, but the globalisation of...

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Lags and Leads in Life Satisfaction : A Test of the Baseline Hypothesis

Georgellis, Yannis; Diener, Ed; Clark, Andrew E.; … - 2003

We use fourteen waves of the German panel data to ask whether individuals, after life and labour market events, return to some baseline wellbeing level. Although the strongest life satisfaction effect is often at the time of the event, significant lag and lead effects are present. Men are more...

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E-business in Service Industries : Usage patterns and service gaps

Preissl, Brigitte - 2003

for France, Germany, Italy and the UK. It will be particularly interesting to have a closer look at the situation in … Germany, since this country is generally considered a ?service laggard? (see summaries of the debate in Cornetz/Schäfer 1999 … holds for the introduction of innovative technology-based business models in service firms. If service sectors in Germany …

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National Climate Change Policy : Are the New German Energy Policy Initiatives in Conflict with WTO Law?

Böhm, Frédéric; Biermann, Frank; Trabold, Harald; … - 2003

This paper addresses German energy policy instruments and their compatibility with WTO rules. Germany and the EU are …

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Location decisions in a changing labour market environment

Frank, Björn - 2003

We study the location of various film-related services (such as camera rental, casting agencies or pyrotechnic services), the main determinant of interest being the human capital specificity. We show that firms which supply services with a lower firm specificity locate farther away from one...

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Vorlaufeigenschaften von ifo-Indikatoren für Westdeutschland

Fritsche, Ulrich - 1999

Ifo-Indikatoren werden auf ihre Vorlaufeigenschaften, auf Granger-Kausalität, die Stabilität der Vorlaufbeziehung und einen Strukturbruch untersucht. Da die Ifo-Reihen noch nicht auf die neue Gliederung der amtlichen Statistik (WZ 93) umgestellt wurden, wird erstmals die Eignung der...

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Distributional and Fiscal Effects of the German Tax Reform 2000 : A Behavioral Microsimulation Analysis

Steiner, Viktor; Haan, Peter - 2004

In the year 2000, the German government passed the most ambitious tax reform in postwar German history aiming at a significant tax relief for households. Drawing on data of the GSOEP, we analyze the distributional and fiscal effects of the tax reform. Our analysis employs microsimulation...

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Zufriedenheit mit der Altersvorsorge und Präferenzen für alternative Sicherungsmodelle : Empirische Analysen mit dem Sozio-oekonomischen Panel (SOEP)

Schwarze, Johannes; Wunder, Christoph - 2004

Mit Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels für das Jahr 2002 wird gezeigt, dass die jüngere Generationmit ihrer finanziellen Alterssicherung deutlich unzufriedener ist als die ältere. Dieser Effekt ist unabhängig von der ökonomischen Situation der Befragten, weist also darauf hin, dass es...

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Household Taxation, Income Splitting and Labor Supply Incentives : A Microsimulation Study for Germany

Wrohlich, Katharina; Steiner, Viktor - 2004

wives would increase substantially in west Germany, while a significant number of husbands would drop out of the labor force. …

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