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The subjective costs of health losses due to chronic diseases : an alternative model for monetary appraisal
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2001
- Germany. We find, for instance, that for West-workers hearing impediments are on average equivalent to an income reduction of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435018
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Computer Use and the Employment Status of Older Workers: An Analysis Based on Individual Data
Schleife, Katrin - 2004
This paper analyzes computer use by older male employees and estimates the impact of computer use on their employment status, based on individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) for the years 1997 and 2001. In line with previous research on the diffusion of new technologies, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297386
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Computer Use and the Employment Status of Older Workers: An analysis Based on Individual Data
Schleife, Katrin - 2005
This paper analyzes the determinants of computer use by male employees and estimates the impact of computer use on the employment status for older workers, based on individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). In line with previous research on the diffusion of new technologies,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298011
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Den Weizen von der Spreu trennen: Altersbezogene Personalpolitik und Innovationen auf der Betriebsebene
Frosch, Katharina; Göbel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - 2011
@Dieser Beitrag untersucht die altersbezogene Personalpolitik deutscher Betriebe und deren Einfluss auf die … analysiert, ob die Innovationsleistung von Betrieben mit deren Personalpolitik zusammenhängt. Die Analyse von verknüpften …, dass eine jugendzentrierte Personalpolitik die Innovationsfähigkeit der Betriebe verbessert. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305881
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Productivity effects of organizational change: microeconometric evidence
Bertschek, Irene; Kaiser, Ulrich - 2001
This paper analyzes the relationship between investment in information and communication technologies (ICT), non-ICT-investment, labor productivity and workplace reorganization. Firms are assumed to reorganize workplaces if the productivity gains arising from workplace reorganization exceed the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297769
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Optimal income taxation of married couples : an empirical analysis of joint and individual taxation
Haan, Peter (contributor); Navarro, Dolores (contributor) - 2008
In this paper we develop a discrete model of optimal taxation of married couples and empirically discuss the optimality of income taxation for this group. To this end, we derive the social welfare function which guarantees that joint taxation of married couples is optimal. We will contrast this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003779678
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Happiness: revising set point theory and dynamic equilibrium theory to account for long term change
Headey, Bruce (contributor) - 2006
An adequate theory of happiness or subjective well-being (SWB) needs to link at least three sets of variables: stable … satisfaction. Using these data, the paper suggests a major revision to the set point or dynamic equilibrium theory of SWB in order … and Tellegen, 1996). Previously, theory focused on evidence that individuals have their own equilibrium level or set point …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003346302
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Der Einfluss von Persönlichkeitseigenschaften und sozialen Ressourcen auf die Arbeitslosigkeitsdauer
Uhlendorff, Arne - 2003
social resources on the individual length of unemployment in Germany are analysed with data from the German Socio … to new additional findings. In West-Germany mobile persons and actors with internal control find a job more easily while … in East-Germany social capital has a positive influence on the probability of reemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011438269
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Estimation of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson inequality indices from complex survey data
Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen - 2003 - This version: 11 April 2003
Applying a method suggested by Woodruff (1971), we derive the sampling variances of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson inequality indices when estimated from complex survey data. It turns out that this method also greatly simplifies the calculations for the i.i.d. case when compared to previous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011438447
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Unobservable, but unimportant? : the influence of personality traits (and other usually unobserved variables) for the evaluation of labor market policies
Caliendo, Marco; Mahlstedt, Robert; Mitnik, Oscar A. - 2014
unemployment in Germany, as well as several usually unobserved characteristics like personality traits, attitudes, expectations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010400598