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The Distribution of Earnings Under Monopsonistic/Polistic Competition
Thisse, Jacques-François - 2010
, firms are price-makers and wage-setters. Our setting combines monopolistic and monopsonistic competition, thus encapsulating …
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Distributional Effects of Competition : A Simulation Approach
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Araar, Abdelkrim; … - 2021
Welfare and Competition tool (WELCOM), to estimate with minimum data requirements the direct distributional effects of market … telecommunications and corn products. The results show that increasing competition from four to 12 firms in the mobile telecommunications …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013250767
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Inequality Perceptions, Distributional Norms, and Redistributive Preferences in East and West Germany
Kuhn, Andreas - 2011
East and West Germany. As expected, there are substantial differences with respect to all three of these measures … or redistributive preferences. Nonetheless, individuals from East Germany tend to be more supportive of state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128215
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Couple's Relative Labor Supply in Intermarriage
Nottmeyer, Olga - 2011
In this paper the hypothesis that partnerships between immigrants and natives are less specialized - in the sense that spouses provide similar working hours per weekday - than those between immigrants is tested. The empirical analysis relies on panel data using a two-limit random effects tobit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128221
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Empirical Welfare Analysis in Random Utility Models of Labour Supply
Decoster, André - 2010
comparison, more explicit. On the basis of microdata from the Socio Economic Panel (SOEP) for married couples in Germany, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136035
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Age, Life-Satisfaction, and Relative Income : Insights from the UK and Germany
Fitzroy, Felix R. - 2011
comparison income effect. In East Germany the reference income effects are insignificant for all. With data from the British …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119018
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Intensity of Time and Income Interdependent Multidimensional Poverty : Well-Being and Minimum 2DGAP – German Evidence
Merz, Joachim - 2011
Extending the traditional income poverty concept by multidimensional poverty has been of growing interest within the last years. This paper contributes with an analysis of interdependent multidimensional (IMD) poverty intensity of time and income, which in particular restricts social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119297
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Lifetime Earnings Inequality in Germany
Boenke, Timm - 2011
This paper documents the magnitude, pattern, and evolution of lifetime earnings inequality in Germany. Based on a large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119299
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Longevity, Life-Cycle Behavior and Pension Reform
Haan, Peter - 2011
public pension system. We calculate that, in the case of Germany, the fiscal consequences of the 6.4 year increase in age 65 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122108
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The Employment of Mothers : Recent Developments and Their Determinants in East and West Germany
Broadway, Barbara - 2011
. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123915