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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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Employment effects of welfare reforms : evidence from a dynamic structural life-cycle model
Haan, Peter (contributor); Prowse, Victoria (contributor);  … - 2008
place in Germany, towards a more Anglo-American system in which a large proportion of transfers are paid to the working poor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726084
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Preferences for childcare policies : theory and evidence
Borck, Rainald (contributor);  … - 2008
We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer private provision to either pure public or mixed provision. If public provision redistributes from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003779265
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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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Migration and money : what determines remittances? ; evidence from Germany
Holst, Elke (contributor); Schrooten, Mechthild (contributor) - 2006
society matters. Second, the probability to remit is not dominated by income. Third, foreigners living in Germany are not a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003304418
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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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Allocative efficiency measurement revisited : do we really need input prices?
Badunenko, Oleg (contributor); Fritsch, Michael (contributor) - 2006
enterprises from the chemical industry in Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003338120
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Subsidies, knapsack auctions and Dantzig's greedy heuristic
Ensthaler, Ludwig; Giebe, Thomas - 2009
A budget-constrained buyer wants to purchase items from a shortlisted set. Items are differentiated by quality and sellers have private reserve prices for their items. Sellers quote prices strategically, inducing a knapsack game. The buyer's problem is to select a subset of maximal quality. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832684
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The effect of market power on electricity storage utilization : the case of pumped hydro storage in Germany
Schill, Wolf-Peter; Kemfert, Claudia - 2009
. -- Electricity market modeling ; pumped hydro storage ; strategic storage ; oligopoly ; market power ; Germany ; ElStorM …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003898588
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Is entrepreneurial success predictable? : an ex-ante analysis of the character-based approach
Caliendo, Marco (contributor);  … - 2007
is slightly better than that of the questionnaire, but lower than expected in theory. Interestingly, for those subgroups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003440087