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Age, Life-Satisfaction, and Relative Income : Insights from the UK and Germany

Fitzroy, Felix R. - 2011

We first confirm previous results with the German Socio-Economic Panel by Layard, et al. (2010), and obtain strong negative effects of comparison income. However, when we split the sample by age, we find quite different results for reference income. The effects on life-satisfaction are positive...

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Is Innovative Firm Behavior Correlated with Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce? Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian - 2012

This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of...

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Base Salaries, Bonus Payments, and Work Absence Among Managers in a German Company

Pfeifer, Christian - 2013

Questions about compensation structures and incentive effects of pay-for-performance components are important for firms' Human Resource Management as well as for economics in general and labor economics in particular. This paper provides scarce insider econometric evidence on the structure and...

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Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life

van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2014

Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably provide exogenous variation in the provision of...

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The Effects of Stepwise Minimum Legal Drinking Age Legislation on Mortality : Evidence from Germany

Kamalow, Raffael - 2019

This study investigates the short-term mortality effects of two age-based restrictions on legal access to alcohol in … Germany. We exploit sharp differences in legal access to alcohol at 16 and 18 years by implementing a regression discontinuity …", whereas legal access to alcohol plays a marginal role at most. Overall, our results indicate that a stepwise introduction to …

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Cross-National Differences in Wealth Portfolios at the Intensive Margin : Is There a Role for Policy?

Doorley, Karina - 2014

Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach in this literature, we show that cohort effects exist in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and Canada. We find that the association between household wealth portfolios at...

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Unequal Consequences of Covid-19 Across Age and Income : Representative Evidence from Six Countries

Belot, Michele - 2020

Covid-19 and the measures taken to contain it have led to unprecedented constraints on work and leisure activities, across the world. This paper uses nationally representative surveys to document how people of different ages and incomes have been affected across six countries (China, South...

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Wages and Ageing : Is There Evidence for the 'Inverse-U' Profile?

Myck, Michal - 2021

How individual wages change with time, and how they are expected to change as individuals grow older, is one of crucial determinants of their behaviour on the labour market including their decision to retire. The profile of individual hourly wages has for a long time been assumed to follow an...

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Age-Dependent Skill Formation and Returns to Education : Simulation Based Evidence

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - 2021

This study integrates findings from neurobiology and psychology on early childhood development and self-regulation to assess returns to education. Our framework for evaluating the distribution of age-specific returns to investments in cognitive and noncognitive skills is a lifecycle simulation...

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Does the Early Bird Catch the Worm? Instrumental Variable Estimates of Educational Effects of Age of School Entry in Germany

Puhani, Patrick A.; Weber, Andrea Maria - 2021

We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational attainment using three different data sets for Germany, sampling pupils at the end of primary school, in the middle of secondary school and several years after secondary school. Results are obtained based on instrumental variable...

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