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Examining the gender wealth gap in Germany

Siermiska, Eva M. (contributor); … - 2008

evidence for a significant gender wealth gap of about 30,000 euros in Germany, which amounts to almost 50,000 euros for married … partners. Decomposition analyses reveal that this gap is mostly driven by differences in characteristics between men and women … women transform their characteristics into wealth. -- Wealth gap ; Wealth inequality ; Gender ; SOEP …

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Copayments for ambulatory care in Germany : a natural experiment using a difference-in-difference approach

Schreyögg, Jonas (contributor); … - 2008

In response to increasing health expenditures and a high number of physician visits, the German government introduced a copayment for ambulatory care in 2004 for individuals with statutory health insurance (SHI). Because persons with private insurance were exempt from the copayments, this health...

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In vino pecunia? : the association between beverage-specific drinking behavior and wages

Ziebarth, Nicolas R. (contributor); … - 2008

individual-based microdata from the GSOEP for 2006, we confirm that this relationship exists for Germany as well. More …

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A cartel analysis of the German labor institutions and its implications for labor market reforms

Haucap, Justus (contributor); Pauly, Uwe (contributor); … - 2006

In this paper we apply standard cartel theory to identify the major institutional stabilizers of Germany's area tariff … regulatory measures for injecting competition into Germany's labor markets that focus on the creation of new options for firms …

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Representative wealth data for Germany from the German SOEP : the impact of methodological decisions around imputation and the choice of the aggregation unit

Frick, Joachim R. (contributor); … - 2007

The definition and operationalization of wealth information in population surveys and the corresponding microdata requires a wide range of more or less normative assumptions. However, the decisions made in both the pre- and post-data-collection stage may interfere considerably with the...

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Dealing with incomplete household panel data in inequality research

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2010

Population surveys around the world face the problem of declining cooperation and participation rates of respondents. Not only can item nonresponse and unit nonresponse impair important outcome measures for inequality research such as total household disposable income; there is also a further...

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Economic gains from publicly provided education in Germany

Frick, Joachim R. (contributor); … - 2007

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Item non-response and imputation of annual labor income in panel surveys from a cross-national Perspective

Frick, Joachim R. (contributor); … - 2007

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Beitragssatz, Kassenwettbewerb und Gesundheitsreform : eine empirische Analyse

Andersen, Hanfried H.; Grabka, Markus M.; Schwarze, Johannes - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 227 (2007) 5/6, pp. 429-450

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Die Einführung der Praxisgebühr und ihre Wirkung auf die Zahl der Arztkontakte und die Kontaktfrequenz : eine empirische Analyse

Grabka, Markus M. (contributor); … - 2005

As part of the Statutory Health Insurance Modernization Act a co-payment of €10 per quarter for the first contact at a physician's or a dentist's office has been introduced with effect of 1st January 2004. Apart from contributing to the financial consolidation of the Statutory Health Insurance...

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