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The impact of household capital income on income inequality : a factor decomposition analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA

Fräßdorf, Anna; Grabka, Markus M.; Schwarze, Johannes - 2008

SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a factor decomposition method described by Shorrocks (1982) is applied … contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular …

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Examining the structure of spatial health effects in Germany using Hierarchical Bayes Models

Eibich, Peter; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2013

This paper uses Hierarchical Bayes Models to model and estimate spatial health effects in Germany. We combine rich …

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Are education and entrepreneurial income endogenous and do family background variables make sense as instruments? : a Bayesian analysis

Block, Jörn; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Current version: February 2010

Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial) income and of education. Using instrumental...

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Dynamics of income rank volatility : evidence from Germany and the US

Chauvel, Louis; Hartung, Anne; Palmisano, Flaviana - 2017

occur in the economy. Applying this approach to investigate rank volatility in Germany and the US over three decades, we …

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A new look at intergenerational mobility in Germany compared to the US

Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2014 - This version: September 2014

Germany and the US, reassessing the question of whether intergenerational mobility is higher in Germany than the US. I can …Motivated by contradictory evidence on intergenerational mobility in Germany, I present a cross-country comparison of … than those for the US. However, based on highly comparable data, even a reasonable degree of variation in the sampling …

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Monitoring subjective well-being : some new empirical evidence for Germany ; [paper prepared for the 33rd General Conference of The International Association for Research in Income...

Oltmanns, Erich; Braakmann, Albert; Schmidt, Joachim - 2014

mostly named factors influencing subjective well-being. The goal of the empirical study for Germany is twofold: First of all … empirical results presented in this paper are mainly based on yearly longitudinal data of private households in Germany …

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Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia; Schoch, Johannes - 2014

We estimate average causal effects of early-life hunger on late-life health by applying instrumental variable estimation, using data with self-reported periods of hunger earlier in life, with famines as instruments. The data contain samples from European countries and include birth cohorts...

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Reversing the question : does happiness affect consumption and savings behavior?

Guven, Cahit - 2009

Netherlands and the German Socio-Economic Panel. Instrumenting individual happiness with regional sunshine, the results suggest …

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Das enttäuschte Versprechen der Integration : Migrantennachkommen in Frankreich und Deutschland

Tucci, Ingrid; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2008

Dieser Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit den sozialstrukturellen Voraussetzungen, die der Dynamik bzw. dem Ausbleiben von Protestverhalten zu Grunde liegen. Ausgehend von drei theoretischen Erklärungsansätzen wird empirisch anhand von repräsentativen Mikrodaten gezeigt, dass die Konzeption der...

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Intra-household time allocation : gender differences in caring for children

García Mainar, Inmaculada; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2009

characteristics, for five samples (Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Spain), with data being drawn from the European Community …

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