Drawing on household budget data from the German Income and Consumption Surveys of 1988 and 1993, we estimate demographicaily structured Quadratic Expenditure Systems. Both Full Information Maximum Likelihood methods and a Limited Information approach as proposed recently by Ding and Hadri...

Gesundheits-Apps werden mittlerweile von vielen Menschen alltäglich genutzt. Diese Apps zielen auf die Förderung einer gesunden Lebensweise. Ausgehend von einem weiten Verständnis von Nudging als Methode, um Menschen in erwünschte Richtungen zu lenken, ohne ihnen die...

Gesundheits-Apps werden mittlerweile von vielen Menschen alltäglich genutzt. Diese Apps zielen auf die Förderung einer gesunden Lebensweise. Ausgehend von einem weiten Verständnis von Nudging als Methode, um Menschen in erwünschte Richtungen zu lenken, ohne ihnen die...

This paper aims at investigating whether or not and to what extent company-level pacts for employment and competitiveness (CLPs) have an impact on the accumulation of human capital. The effect of CLPs on further training is analyzed utilizing the IAB Establishment Panel data of the years 2003 to...

Based on merged data from the IAB-establishment panel survey and the historic files of the employment statistics register, a translog cost system was estimated for six qualification groups (blue- and white-collar workers stratified into unskilled, skilled and highly skilled employees) for West...

This paper analyzes the impact of corporate taxation on a firm’s debt policy. We contribute to the existing literature in two ways: (i) we explicitly model persistence in the debt-to-asset ratio, and (ii) we incorporate firm heterogeneity with respect to firm size and legal form. Empirically,...

This paper studies the relationship between firm growth and external factors. Externalities from related economic, public research and higher educational activities are traced back to specific locations in space. The spatial characteristics of their impact are examined within a distancebased,...

Kraemer and Arminger in a preceding article in this volume insinuated that in a meta-analysis on childhood leukaemia in the vicinity of nuclear power plants (NPP) in five countries gross methodological errors had led to falsified statistics. Major assumptions were a) arbitrary exclusion of...

In a long-run social experiment, personal budgets have been tested as an alternative home care program of the German long-term care insurance (LTCI). By granting the monetary value of in-kind services in cash, personal budgets are considered to enable customized home care arrangements, thereby...

The paper presents the methodological challenges of the introduction of cost-benefit assessment by the German legislative (Competition Enhancement Act). Based on the standards for health economic evaluation accepted by the international scientific health economic community, this paper provides a...