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Changing fortunes during economic transition : low-wage persistence before and after German unification
Gürtzgen, Nicole; Nolte, André - 2016
This paper studies whether the transition from a centrally planned to a market economy offers new perspectives for those who, in economic terms, were relatively deprived under the old regime. Previous empirical research on this question has been limited by the availability of representative...
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Do savings increase in response to salient information about retirement and expected pensions?
Dolls, Mathias; Doerrenberg, Philipp; Peichl, Andreas; … - 2016
How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system … change the level of pensions, but only manipulated the knowledge about and salience of expected pension payments. Using … on private retirement savings. Our results show that the letters increase private retirement savings. The effects are …
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Do hours restrictions matter? : a discrete family labor supply model with endogenous wages and hours restrictions
Wolf, Elke - 1998
The labor supply of West German married and cohabiting couples is analyzed using a discrete choice model. Following van Soest (1995), the labor supply decision is based on a household utility function which is determined by the leisure of the two spouses and net household income. Furthermore,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442317
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Capital mobility within EMU
Stirböck, Claudia; Heinemann, Friedrich - 1999
Capital mobility is helpful to cope with the loss of adjustment instruments in EMU. High capital mobility in the sense of Feldstein and Horioka (FH) can limit the negative consequences of shocks affecting the saving capacity of an economy in the Eurozone. It is the aim of this paper to assess...
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Innovative capability and financing constraints for innovation more money, more innovation?
Hottenrott, Hanna; Peters, Bettina - 2009
This study presents a novel empirical approach to identify financing constraints for innovation based on the idea of an ideal test as suggested by Hall (2008). Firms were offered a hypothetical payment and were asked to choose between alternatives of use. If they choose additional innovation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003914253
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Female labor force participation and the big five
Wichert, Laura; Pohlmeier, Winfried - 2010
This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits and female labor force participation. While research on the role of cognitive skills for individual labor market success has a long tradition in economics, comparatively little is known about the channels through which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003919076
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Churning of R&D personnel and innovation
Müller, Kathrin; Peters, Bettina - 2010
This paper explores the role of R&D worker mobility on innovation performance. As one main novelty, we employ churning as a measure for worker mobility. Churning depicts the number of workers which are replaced by new ones. It is a very informative indicator since a firm may be exposed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003969876
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Consumer welfare and unobserved heterogeneity in discrete choice models : the value of alpine road tunnels
Cerquera, Daniel; Ullrich, Hannes - 2010
We investigate the sensitivity of consumer surplus estimates to parametric assumptions on individual preference heterogeneity in a discrete choice framework. We compare results from a parametric random coefficients logit model and a recently proposed nonparametric sieve estimator. In particular,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008702154
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Innovative capability and financing constraints for innovation more money, more innovation?
Hottenrott, Hanna; Peters, Bettina - 2011 - This version: March 2011
This study presents a novel empirical approach to identify financing constraints for innovation based on the concept of an ideal test as suggested by Hall (2008). Firms were offered a hypothetical payment and were asked to choose between alternatives of use. If they selected additional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009152558