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Regional social contexts and individual fertility decisions : a multilevel analysis of first and second birth in Western Germany
Hank, Karsten - 2002
western Germany during the 1980s and 1990s. It is argued that regional opportunity structures as well as local patterns of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435834
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Spatial competition and pass-through of fuel taxes : evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in Germany
Waldow, Frederik von; Link, Heike - 2024
This paper analyses the pass-through rates and their determinants of the temporary German fuel discount in 2022 at its start and its termination. Based on a unique dataset of fuel station characteristics and prices, we employ a Regression Discontinuity in Time (RDiT) methodology to estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014560747
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The determinants of church attendance and religious human capital in Germany : evidence from panel data
Heineck, Guido - 2001
This paper explores determinants of church attendance and the formation of 'religious human capital' in Germany within … find, not too surprisingly, that strength of belief is much lower in the formerly atheistic East Germany. It is however not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435639
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Estimating a consumer demand system of energy, mobility and leisure : a microdata approach for Germany
Beznoska, Martin - 2014
, respectively leisure demand effects for Germany. Using a demand system to estimate the price, cross-price and income effects of the …This paper investigates empirically the consumer demand of environmentally relevant goods for Germany, as well as their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339053
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Does consumption decline at retirement? : evidence from repeated cross-section data for Germany
Beznoska, Martin; Steiner, Viktor - 2012
-section data for Germany, this paper analyzes the retirement consumption puzzle for the German case. For our broadest consumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009579313
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Liquidity constraints and the permanent income hypothesis : pseudo panel estimation with German consumption survey data
Beznoska, Martin; Ochmann, Richard R. - 2012
This paper empirically investigates the relevance of liquidity constraints and excess sensitivity in intertemporal household consumption. Using a pseudo panel that has been constructed on rich German consumption survey data, we estimate the consumption responses to permanent and transitory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009579365
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726012
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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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The role of sickness in the evaluation of job search assistance and sanctions
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2016
Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However, the possibility to report sick creates an additional moral hazard, since during sickness spells, minimum requirements on search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex-ante...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414725