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Car road charging : impact assessment on German and Austrian households

Kalinowska, Dominika; Steininger, Karl W. - 2009

Austria and Germany assessing the impact of road charging (RC). The pricing policy measure is introduced for the private …

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The pros and cons of sick pay schemes : testing for contagious presenteeism and shirking behavior

Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015

This paper proposes a test for the existence and degree of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sickness insurance schemes. First, we theoretically decompose moral hazard into shirking and contagious presenteeism behavior and derive testable conditions. Then, we implement the...

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Modellgestützte Analyse der ökologischen Steuerreform mit LEAN, PANTA RHEI und dem Potsdamer Mikrosimulationsmodell

Bach, Stefan; Kohlhaas, Michael; Meyer, Bernd; … - 2001

Eine erste systematische, modellgestützte Untersuchung der ökologischen Steuerreform in Deutschland kommt zu moderaten …A first systematic, model-based analysis of the environmental fiscal reform in Germany indicates moderate but slightly …

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Mortgage market maturity and homeownership inequality among young households : a five-country perspective

Bičáková, Alena (contributor); … - 2008

rates and the homeownership-income inequality among young households in Finland, Germany, Italy, the UK and the US, and … highest and most equally distributed homeownership in this country as well. The mortgage market in Germany is on the other …

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Das enttäuschte Versprechen der Integration : Migrantennachkommen in Frankreich und Deutschland

Tucci, Ingrid (contributor); Groh-Samberg, Olaf (contributor) - 2008

enttäuscht wird. Demgegenüber setzt die Ausgrenzung von Migrantennachkommen in Deutschland schon im Bildungssystem ein, so dass … ; Deutschland ; Frankreich …

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Childhood family structure and schooling outcomes : evidence for Germany

Francesconi, Marco (contributor); … - 2006

-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common …

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Native-migrant differences in risk attitudes

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - 2006

This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.

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Income inequality in the 1990s : comparing the United States, Great Britain and Germany

Burkhauser, Richard V. (contributor); … - 2006

and the Socio-Economic Panel in Germany we find gains from economic growth in the United States over their 1990s business …-1989). Furthermore, they were more equitably distributed than were the gains in Germany over their 1990s business cycle (1991 … States and Great Britain the entire income distribution moved upward in the 1990s. In Germany, as was the case in the United …

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Does the dispersion of unit labor cost dynamics in the EMU imply long-run divergence? : results from a comparison with the United States of America and Germany

Dullien, Sebastian (contributor); … - 2007

Using unit labor cost (ULC) data from Euro area countries as well as US States and German La͏̈nder we investigate inflation convergence using different approaches, namely panel unit root tests, cointegration tests and error-correction models. All in all we cannot reject convergence of ULC...

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Outward FDI and domestic investment

Herzer, Dierk (contributor); … - 2007

-integration techniques to macroeconomic time series data for the United Sates and Germany. We show that the two countries differ: In the case … of the US, OFDI has positive long-run effects on domestic investment while in the case of Germany the reverse effect is …

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