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due to nominal, but mostly real wage rigidity is substantial. The extent of real rigidity rises with inflation, whereas …, is most likely minimized in an environment with moderate inflation …
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and households and the aggregate economy of Germany. We adopt alternative micro-foundations for agglomeration economies … Germany's labor markets, housing rents, and household travel-to-work data, to estimate the population elasticities of urban … benefits and costs. We are the first to establish elasticities for urban costs for Germany, an estimated elasticity of …
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In this paper, we use a novel firm level dataset for Germany to investigate the effect of sanctions on export behaviour …
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We provide new evidence of forward-looking labor supply responses to changes in pension wealth. We exploit a 2014 German reform that increased pension wealth for mothers by an average of 4.4% per child born before January 1, 1992. Using administrative data on the universe of working histories,...
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This paper studies whether individuals that experienced parental unemployment during their childhood/early adolescence have poorer health once they reach the adulthood. We used data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 2002 until 2018. Our identification strategy of the causal effect of...
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This paper explores the determinants of individual well-being as measured by self-reported levels of satisfaction with income. Making full use of the panel data nature of the German Socio-Economic Panel, we provide empirical evidence for well-being depending on absolute and on relative levels of...
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This article investigates the relationship between individual wages and height using the German Socio-Economic Panel where five hypotheses are tested. Some explanations of a positive link exist and empirical studies confirm this hypothesis. In contrast to previous investigations which are only...
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Using a large linked employer-employee data set for Germany, we find that the existence of a works council is …
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risk taking. Expanding her dataset with more American observations and data for Germany, Spain and Italy, we find mixed …
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We estimate a dynamic structural life-cycle model of employment, non-employment and retirement that includes endogenous accumulation of human capital and intertemporal non-separabilities in preferences. Additionally, the model accounts for the effect of the tax and transfer system on work...
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