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The effect of partial retirement on labor supply, public balances and the income distribution : evidence from a structural analysis

Tolan, Songül - 2017

This paper develops a structural dynamic retirement model to investigate effects and corresponding underlying mechanisms of a partial retirement program on labor supply, fiscal balances, and the pension income distribution. The structural approach allows for disentangling the two counteracting...

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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 …

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Automatic identification of faked and fraudulent interviews in surveys by two different methods

Schäfer, Christin; Schräpler, Jörg-Peter; Müller, … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

This paper presents two new tools for the identification of faking interviewers in surveys. One method is based on Benford's Law, and the other exploits the empirical observation that fakers most often produce answers with less variability than could be expected from the whole survey. We focus...

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An estimation and decomposition of the government investment multiplier

Clemens, Marius; Michelsen, Claus; Rieth, Malte - 2025

We construct a narrative instrument for government investment from official records in Germany. Using structural vector …

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A market screening model for price inconstancies : empirical evidence from German electricity markets

Blanckenburg, Korbinian von; Hanfeld, Marc; Kholodilin, … - 2013

In this paper, we develop a market screening model to detect inconstancies in price changes. Although there is a long history of industrial organization research of collusion, price setting behavior, and conduct - a robust model to detect structural changes in market structure was missing so...

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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 …

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The PPP hypothesis revisited : evidence using a multivariate long-memory model

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; Lovcha, … - 2013

This paper examines the PPP hypothesis analysing the behaviour of the real exchange rates vis-à-vis the US dollar for four major currencies (namely, the Canadian dollar, the euro, the Japanese yen and the British pound). An innovative approach based on fractional integration in a multivariate...

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Setting the set point : initial predictors of life satisfaction in early adulthood

Trzcinski, Eileen (contributor); Holst, Elke (contributor) - 2006

In this article, we examine the patterns of association among a number of different factors that may contribute to differences in the initial baseline level of subjective well-being among young people in transition to adulthood. By examining the nature and patterns of these associations, we...

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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 …

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Severance pay and the shadow of the law : evidence for west Germany

Goerke, Laszlo (contributor); Pannenberg, Markus (contributor) - 2005

Due to the complexity of employment protection legislation (EPL) in Germany, there is notable uncertainty about the …

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