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Parental background matters : intergenerational mobility and assimilation of Italian immigrants in Germany

Bönke, Timm; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2014

by the Italian Embassy in Germany. In line with previous studies, we confirm substantial inequality of educational …

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The standard portfolio choice problem in Germany

Huck, Steffen; Schmidt, Tobias; Weizsäcker, Georg - 2014

We study an investment experiment conducted with a representative sample of German households. Respondents invest in a safe asset and a risky asset whose return is tied to the German stock market. Experimental investments correlate with beliefs about stock market returns and exhibit desirable...

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The PHF: a comprehensive panel survey on household finances and wealth in Germany

Kalckreuth, Ulf von; Eisele, Martin; Le Blanc, Julia; … - 2012

The Panel on Household Finances (PHF) is a new panel survey on household finances and wealth in Germany conducted by … households in Germany. Wealthy households are oversampled using micro-geographic indicators. The survey is designed to be a full … self-contained and comprehensive survey on household finances in Germany, the PHF is part of the Household Finance and …

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Sharing the burden : empirical evidence on corporate tax incidence

Dwenger, Nadja; Rattenhuber, Pia; Steiner, Viktor - 2011

, using estimations based on a unique pseudo-panel data set from Germany for the period 1998 to 2006. Tax return data cover …

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Optimal top marginal tax rates under income splitting for couples

Bach, Stefan; Corneo, Giacomo; Steiner, Viktor - 2011

computed for Germany using a dataset that includes the tax returns of all German top taxpayers. We find that the optimal top …

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A wealth tax on the rich to bring down public debt? : revenue and distributional effects of a capital levy

Bach, Stefan; Beznoska, Martin; Steiner, Viktor - 2011

The idea of higher wealth taxes to finance the mounting public debt in the wake of the financial crises is gaining ground in several OECD countries. We evaluate the revenue and distributional effects of a one-time capital levy on personal net wealth that is currently on the German political...

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The influence of an up-front experiment on respondents’ recording behaviour in payment diaries : evidence from Germany

Sieber, Susann; Schmidt, Tobias - 2015

In this paper, we analyse the recording behaviour of German consumers in a one week diary on their point-of-sales expenditures. We are particularly interested in the effect of a behavioural experiment, eliciting respondents’ risk preferences, on their recording behaviour. In the experiment,...

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Determinanten regionaler Unterschiede in der Gründungshäufigkeit wissensintensiver Dienstleister

Almus, Matthias; Egeln, Jürgen; Engel, Dirk - 1999

The paper deals with the question which determinants can explain regional differences in the number of start-ups in Austrian and Western German districts when observing the business related service sector. We separate our sample in firms operating in knowledge intensive sectors and start-ups...

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Wealth and subjective well-being in Germany

Jantsch, Antje; Le Blanc, Julia; Schmidt, Tobias - 2022

Wealth in addition to income determines to a large degree an individual’s consumption opportunities and economic situation, which should in turn affect their subjective well-being. We analyse empirically the relationship between life satisfaction as an indicator of subjective well being and...

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Household bargaining, pension contributions and retirement expectations : evidence from the German Panel on Household Finances

Fernandes, Inês; Schmidt, Tobias - 2021

In this paper, we study the relationship between intrahousehold bargaining styles, bar-gaining power and individual pension contributions and expected standard of living in retirement, using microdata from the German Panel on Household Finances (PHF) survey. The paper builds on a theoretical...

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