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Heterogeneity in price responsiveness for residential space heating in Germany
Schmitz, Hendrik; Madlener, Reinhard - 2016
significant heterogeneity in expenditures depending on socioeconomic variables. For the full sample, we find a price elasticity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011574116
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Worker Reallocation across Occupations in Western Germany
Isaoglu, Aysen - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
then investigated while controlling for unobserved worker heterogeneity. A dynamic probit fixed effects model is estimated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671257
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Empirical Strategies to Eliminate Life-Cycle Bias in the Intergenerational Elasticity of Earnings Literature
Stuhler, Jan Leonard - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
I argue that the empirical strategies for estimation of the intergenerational elasticity of lifetime earnings that are currently employed in the literature might not eliminate bias arising from life-cycle effects. Specifically, I demonstrate that procedures based on the generalized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784514
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Worker Reallocation across Occupations in Western Germany
Isaoglu, Aysen - 2010
then investigated while controlling for unobserved worker heterogeneity. A dynamic probit fixed effects model is estimated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600961
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Empirical Strategies to Eliminate Life-Cycle Bias in the Intergenerational Elasticity of Earnings Literature
Stuhler, Jan Leonard - 2010
I argue that the empirical strategies for estimation of the intergenerational elasticity of lifetime earnings that are currently employed in the literature might not eliminate bias arising from life-cycle effects. Specifically, I demonstrate that procedures based on the generalized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600988
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Self-Employment and Geographical Mobility in Germany
Reuschke, Darja - 2011
Little is known about the individual location behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs. This paper investigates the geographical mobility behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs, as compared to employees, thereby shedding new light onto the place embeddedness of self-employment. It examines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601059
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Intergenerational correlations of extreme right-wing party preferences and attitudes toward immigration
Avdeenko, Alexandra; Siedler, Thomas - 2016
This study analyzes the importance of parental socialization on the development of children's far right-wing preferences and attitudes towards immigration. Using longitudinal data from Germany, our intergenerational estimates suggest that the strongest and most important predictor for young...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011499559
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Self-Employment and Geographical Mobility in Germany
Reuschke, Darja - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
Little is known about the individual location behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs. This paper investigates the geographical mobility behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs, as compared to employees, thereby shedding new light onto the place embeddedness of self-employment. It examines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399837
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Earnings inequality in Germany: A decomposition-analysis
Stein, Ulrike - 2017
due to increasing earnings heterogeneity within groups (within-group inequality). The former effect is larger than the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011795303
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Empirical Welfare Analysis in Random Utility Models of Labour Supply
Decoster, André; Haan, Peter - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
preference heterogeneity in the normative step of the analysis. They also make the ethical priors, implicit in any interpersonal … measures. We retrieve individual and household specific preference heterogeneity, by estimating a structural discrete choice … different metrics, each embodying different ethical choices concerning the preference heterogeneity in the consumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008754944