Using data from national socio-economic panel surveys in Australia, Britain and Germany, this paper analyzes the …

Germany introduced the so-called Riester pensions. The complex design of the new product might have created entry barriers … evidence has not properly taken into account the search and decision costs related to Riester pensions. I use information on … are determinants of their children’s preferences and ability in financial decision making, however, omission does not seem …

five different sets of factors (demographics, income, labor market, inheritances, financial decision making in the … decision making, we find the gap to be significantly smaller when the female manages the money and larger if the male partner … ; financial decision making ; SOEP …

precursor of entrepreneurial development - parental role models - for the individual decision to become self-employed in the … post-unified Germany. The findings suggest that the socialist regime significantly damaged this mechanism of an … parental role model and the decision to become self-employed for less-educated people. For West Germans the positive …

immigrants across Germany. …