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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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The Joint Distribution of Net Worth and Pension Wealth in Germany

Boenke, Timm - 2016

of the two) in Germany. Further, we investigate age‐wealth‐profiles and differences between East and West Germany …

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In Vino Pecunia? The Association between Beverage-Specific Drinking Behavior and Wages

Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Grabka, Markus - 2008

-based microdata from the GSOEP for 2006, we confirm that this relationship exists for Germany as well. More importantly, we shed light …

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Copayments for Ambulatory Care in Germany : A Natural Experiment Using a Difference-in-Difference Approach

Schreyogg, Jonas; Grabka, Markus - 2008

In response to increasing health expenditures and a high number of physician visits, the German government introduced a copayment for ambulatory care in 2004 for individuals with statutory health insurance (SHI). Because persons with private insurance were exempt from the copayments, this health...

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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; 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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Personality Traits, Self-Employment, and Professions

Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2011

We investigate the effect of broad personality traits — the Big Five — on an individual’s decision to become self-employed. In particular, we test an overall indicator of the entrepreneurial personality. Since we find that the level of selfemployment varies considerably across professions,...

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Personality Traits, Self-Employment, and Professions

Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2013

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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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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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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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