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Accounting for poverty differences between the United States, Great Britain, and Germany
Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2002
-relevant characteristics, in particular higher employment rates. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260639
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Does gender affect investors' appetite for risk? Evidence from peer-to-peer lending
Barasinska, Nataliya - 2011
of risk preferences across investors. Estimation results provide no evidence of gender differences in investors' risk …This study investigates the role of gender in financial risk-taking. Specifically, I ask whether female investors tend … expected return and its standard deviation, whereas standard deviation serves as a measure of risk. Gender differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286304
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Fiscal Policy Rules for Stabilisation and Growth : A Simulation Analysis of Deficit and Expenditure Targets in a Monetary Union
Brück, Tilman; Zwiener, Rudolf - 2004
We analyse the effectiveness of fiscal policy rules for business cycle stabilisation in a monetary union using a quarterly macro-econometric model of Germany. The simulations compare a deficit target and an expenditure target under a range of supply, demand and fiscal shocks. Their effects are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260720
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How robust are simulated employment effects of a legal minimum wage in Germany? A comparison of different data sources and assumptions
Müller, Kai-Uwe - 2009
Several empirical minimum wage studies have recently been published that simulate employment effects of a federal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271572
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Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe; … - 2005
This paper presents new evidence on the distribution of risk attitudes in the population, using a novel set of survey questions and a representative sample of roughly 22,000 individuals living in Germany. Using a question that asks about willingness to take risks on an 11-point scale, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260868
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R&D and price elasticity of demand
Lucke, Dorothea; Schröder, Philipp J. H.; Schumacher, … - 2004
This note explores the relationship between the price elasticity of demand and the R&D intensity of the product. We introduce the concept of R&D intensity into a standard Dixit-Stiglitz/Krugman-type setting. R&D activity is treated as a fixed cost of production. Within this framework, sectors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276554
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Do ethnic minorities 'stretch' their time? Evidence from the UK time use survey
Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010
This paper investigates the effect of ethnicity on time spent on overlapped household production, work and leisure activities employing the 2000-2001 UK Time Use Survey. We find that, unconditionally, white females manage to stretch their time the most by an additional 233 minutes per day and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271380
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A lost generation? Long term socioeconomic outcomes in orphans
Bozzoli, Carlos - 2010
educational achievements, but that it may also leave a long-lasting imprint in terms of employment and fertility patterns. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285723
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Gender, Ethnic Identity and Work
Constant, Amelie F.; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, … - 2006
The European Union?s strategy to raise employment is confronted with very low work participation among many minority … immigrants. Using unique German survey data, the paper identifies marked gender differences in the effects of ethnic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272284
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Risk attitudes and investment decisions across European countries: are women more conservative investors than men?
Badunenko, Oleg; Barasinska, Nataliya; Schäfer, Dorothea - 2009
financial risks. The empirical evidence we provide only weakly supports the gender differences argument. We find that women are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291778