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Reaching national Kyoto-targets in Germany by maintaining a sustainable development

Bayer, Stefan; Kemfert, Claudia - 2000

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The liberalisation process of the German electricity market : strategies and opportunities

Kemfert, Claudia - 1999

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Energy-capital-labor substitution and the economic effects of CO 2 abatement : evidence for Germany

Kemfert, Claudia; Welsch, Heinz - 1998

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The Evolution of Income Inequality in Germany and Switzerland Since the Turn of the Millennium

Grabka, Markus - 2012

This paper presents and compares trends in income inequality in Switzerland and Germany from 2000 to 2009 using … harmonized data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the Swiss Household Panel (SHP). Whereas in Germany inequality has … inequality reveals the effects of Germany's slightly older population and smaller household sizes, as well as the impact of …

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SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS) - Description, Structure and Documentation

Richter, David - 2012

The SOEP Group currently is preparing in addition to increasing the size of the core SOEP, to establish a new Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS). This will be established for the period 2012 to 2017 (with a cumulative number of presumably N=5,000 households). Now, in the year 2012, a new subsample is...

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Self-Employment after Socialism : Intergenerational Links, Entrepreneurial Values, and Human Capital

Fritsch, Michael - 2012

post-unified Germany. The findings suggest that the socialist regime significantly damaged this mechanism of an …

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Members of German Federal Parliament More Risk-Loving than General Population

Heß, Moritz - 2013

The article analyzes the question of whether career politicians differ systematically from the general population in terms of their attitudes toward risk. A written survey of members of the 17th German Bundestag in late 2011 identified their risk attitudes, and the survey data was set in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083127

Stepping Forward : Personality Traits, Choice of Profession, and the Decision to Become Self-Employed

Fritsch, Michael - 2013

We argue that entrepreneurial choice proceeds in at least in two steps, with vocational choice nearly always preceding choice of employment status, whether that be self-employment or dependent employment. Since the two decisions are interrelated, analysis of entrepreneurial choice as a single...

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Experimental Evidence of the Effect of Monetary Incentives on Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Response : Experiences from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)

Fräßdorf, Mathis - 2013

The paper gives an overview of two experiments implemented in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) considering the effect of monetary incentives on cross-sectional and longitudinal response propensities. We conclude that the overall effects of monetary incentives on response rates are positive...

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A Head-To-Head Comparison of Augmented Wealth in Germany and the United States

Boenke, Timm - 2017

and pension wealth – for two countries: the United States and Germany. Pension wealth makes up a considerable portion of … household wealth: about 48% in the United States and 61% in Germany. The higher share in Germany narrows the wealth gap between … Germany, augmented wealth (US$651,000) is only 1.4 times higher. Further, the inclusion of pension wealth in household wealth …

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