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Individual Determinants of Social Fairness Assessments - The Case of Germany
Bischoff, Ivo - 2014
In this contribution we study the determinants of how individuals assess the social fairness of a given income …: first fairness preferences, second beliefs on the sources of economic success and the functioning of democracy and third … results indicate that self-interest, beliefs and fairness preferences jointly shape fairness assessments. In addition, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012708728
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Choosing from the Reform Menu Card - Individual Determinants of Labour Market Policy Preferences
Heinemann, Friedrich - 2009
-interest, information, fairness judgments, economic beliefs and other individual factors such as socialization under the communist regime in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013160405
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Gender Differences in German Wage Mobility
Aretz, Bodo - 2013
This paper analyzes the evolution of wage inequality and wage mobility separately for men and women in West and East Germany over the last four decades. Using a large administrative data set which covers the years 1975 to 2008, I find that wage inequality increased and wage mobility decreased...
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Marital Sorting, Inequality and the Role of Female Labor Supply : Evidence from East and West Germany
Pestel, Nico - 2015
This paper examines to what extent marital sorting affects cross-sectional earnings inequality in Germany over the past three decades, while explicitly taking into account labor supply choices. Using rich micro data, the observed distribution of couples' earnings is compared to a counterfactual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013017999
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Inequality of Educational Opportunities and the Role of Learning Intensity : Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in Germany
Camarero Garcia, Sebastian - 2018
identify the causal effect of increased learning intensity on Inequality of Educational Opportunity (IEOp), the share in … learning intensity had no short-term effect on IEOp. In the medium term, however, IEOp increased as differences in parental … increasing the efficiency of educational systems and to the role of learning intensity for explaining changes in educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919794
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A Deprivation-Based Assessment of Energy Poverty : Conceptual Problems and Application to Germany
Heindl, Peter - 2019
In this paper, subjective and objective aspects of deprivation are used to derive an aggregated multidimensional measure of energy poverty. The proposed measure is based on deprivation with a direct relation to energy consumption, but it also accounts for excessive financial restrictions due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012862826
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The Evolution of Inequality of Opportunity in Germany : A Machine Learning Approach
Brunori, Paolo; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2020
straightforwardly estimated by adopting a machine learning approach, and apply our novel method to analyse the development of IOP in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014100158
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Politicians' Opinions on Rivals in the Competition for Firms : An Empirical Analysis of Reference Points Near a Border
Geys, Benny - 2011
Studies of spatial policy interdependence in (local) public policies usually concentrate on the relations between jurisdictions within a single analysed region, and disregard possible extra-regional effects. This paper evaluates the validity of such restriction by studying German local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128062
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The Globalization of Tax Policy : What German Politicians Believe
Heinemann, Friedrich - 2009
The process of globalization has an important impact on national tax policies. Most of the literature on taxation of capital in open economies does not focus directly on the political decision making process and assumes that the desired tax policy is responding to objective underlying tradeoffs....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012721083
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Employability, lebenslanges Lernen und die Rolle des Staates
Bosch, Gerhard - In: Gewerkschaftliche Monatshefte 53 (2002) 12, pp. 688-697
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001721457