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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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Lifetime earnings inequality in Germany

Bönke, Timm; Corneo, Giacomo; Lüthen, Holger - 2011

This paper documents the magnitude, pattern, and evolution of lifetime earnings inequality in Germany. Based on a large …

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Kriterien und Vorschläge für einen Subventionsabbau: Kurzexpertise zur Strukturberichterstattung an den Bundesminister für Wirtschaft

Klodt, Henning; Bartholmai, Bernd; Hopf, Rainer; … - 1999

Vor der Bundestagswahl im September 1998 zeichnete sich ab, daß die Steuerreform weiterhin auf der Tagesordnung beiben würde. Die Vebreiterung der Bemessungsgrundlage hat darin einen wichtigen Stellenwert.Der Subventionsabbau ist ohnehin ein witschaftspolitischer Dauerbrenner. Das...

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Money for Nothing and your Chips for Free? The Anatomy of the PC Wage Differential

Schmidt, Christoph M.; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 1999

In this paper, the role of the computer at the workplace will be examined in determining the wage structure in Germany …) had for France, that in Germany the coefficient for computer usage at the workplace did NOT remain stable and although …-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) die Rolle der Nutzung von Computern am Arbeitsplatz als Determinante der Lohnstruktur in Deutschland untersucht …

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Explaining export success in the UK and German medical equipment industry

Anderton, Bob; Schultz, Siegfried - 1999

the aggregate analysis. Germany spends more on product quality enhancing activities such as R&D and investment in the … durchgeführten Fallstudien führen zu ähnlichen Schlußfolgerungen wie die aggregierte Analyse. In Deutschland sind mehr Ausgaben für …

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Do current income and annual income measures provide different pictures of Britain's income distribution?

Böheim, René; Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2000

Most UK surveys, including those used each year to derive the official UK income distribution statistics (?Households Below Average Income?), provide measures of current household income rather than annual household income, which is the measure used in most other countries. Using British...

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The distribution of income by sectors of the population

Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2000

I interpret the ?distribution of income by sectors of the population? to refer to the personal distribution of income, with evidence about it derived from household surveys. Section 1 outlines the links between the personal and factor income distributions, and includes a discussion of research...

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Modelling low income transitions

Cappellari, Lorenzo; Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2002

We examine the determinants of low income transitions using first-order Markov models that control for initial conditions effects (those found to be poor in the base year may be a non-random sample) and for attrition (panel retention may also be non-random). Our econometric model is a form of...

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Firm size, wages and unobserved skills : evidence from dual job holdings in the UK

Muravyev, Alexander - 2007

The paper examines the labour quality explanation of the employer size?wage gap: larger firms pay higher wages because they employ more skilled workers. Most previous studies control for unobserved skills of workers using longitudinal data and the fixed effects estimator thus relying on a...

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New Networks, Competition and Regulation

Baake, Pio; Kameckey, Ulrich - 2006

We consider a model with two firms operating their individual networks. Each firm can choose its price as well as its investment to build up its network. Assuming a skewed distribution of consumers, our model leads to an asymmetric market structure with one firm choosing higher investments....

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