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Impacts of an ageing society on macroeconomics and income inequality : the case of Germany since the 1980s
Faik, Jürgen - 2012
The discussion paper is concerned with the interplay between demography and macroeconomics on one hand and macroeconomics and income inequality on the other hand. For this purpose, several estimation equations are derived by econometric methods (on the empirical basis of the 1984-2010 German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009681277
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Extending the empirical basis for wealth inequality research using statistical matching of administrative and survey data
Rasner, Anika; Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2011
. In Germany, it is the lack of adequate micro data that accounts for this shortcoming. The two main contributions of this … picture of the level and the socio-economic structure of wealth in Germany. Above and beyond such within-country variation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826700
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Higher productivity in importing German manufacturing firms: self-selection, learning from importing, or both?
Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - 2008
document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … for trading internationally are about the same in West and East Germany. Compared to firms that do not trade at all two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269066
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Offshoring and firm performance: self-selection, effects on performance, or both?
Wagner, Joachim - 2009
what is often argued, therefore, we find no evidence for a negative causal effect of offshoring on employment in Germany or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269578
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The KfW/ZEW start-up panel: design and research potential
Fryges, Helmut; Gottschalk, Sandra; Kohn, Karsten - 2009
So far, there has been no data set which observes firm formations in Germany not only on a cross-sectional basis using … Bankengruppe and Creditreform set up a panel study of newly founded firms in Germany: the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel. In each of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269631
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Econometric analysis of ratings : with an application to health and wellbeing
Studer, Raphael; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2016
We propose a new non-linear regression model for rating dependent variables. The rating scale model accounts for the upper and lower bounds of ratings. Parametric and semi-parametric estimation is discussed. An application investigates the relationship between stated health satisfaction and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011482659
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Unlocking further potential in the national cohort study through comparability with the German socio-economic panel
Kröger, Hannes; Schupp, Jürgen; Behrens, Johann - 2014
biases when trying to obtain results from the National Cohort that are representative for the total population of Germany. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354636
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Terminal decline in well-being : the role of social orientation
Gerstorf, Denis; Hoppmann, Christiane A.; Löckenhoff, … - 2016
Well-being development at the end of life is often characterized by steep deteriorations, but individual differences in these terminal declines are substantial and not yet well understood. This study moved beyond the typical consideration of health predictors and explored the role of social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450998
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Do immigrants suffer more from job loss? : unemployment and subjective well-being in Germany
Leopold, Liliya; Leopold, Thomas; Lechner, Clemens M. - 2016
This study asked whether immigrants suffer more from job loss than German natives do. Compositional, psychosocial, and normative differences between these groups suggest that various factors intensifying the negative impact of unemployment on subjective well-being are either more prevalent, more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011477516
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Gender identity and womens' supply of labor and non-market work : panel data evidence for Germany
Wieber, Anna; Holst, Elke - 2015
Germany. They found that women who would earn more than their husbands distort their labor market outcome in order not to … labor supply of full time working women, but only in Western Germany. We also show that gender identity affects the supply … a higher income than their husbands, we find for Germany that women only barely reduce their weekly hours of non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391706