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Are Education and Entrepreneurial Income Endogenous and Do Family Background Variables Make Sense as Instruments?: A Bayesian Analysis
Block, Jörn H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart F.; Thurik, A. Roy - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693473
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Examining the Structure of Spatial Health Effects in Germany Using Hierarchical Bayes Models
Eibich, Peter; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
This paper uses Hierarchical Bayes Models to model and estimate spatial health effects in Germany. We combine rich individual-level household panel data from the German SOEP with administrative county-level data to estimate spatial county-level health dependencies. As dependent variable we use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896253
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Are Education and Entrepreneurial Income Endogenous and Do Family Background Variables Make Sense as Instruments? A Bayesian Analysis
Block, Jörn H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart F.; Thurik, A. Roy - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600971
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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 individual-level household panel data from the German SOEP with administrative county-level data to estimate spatial county-level health dependencies. As dependent variable we use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332143
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The personality profi les of early adopters of energy-efficient technology
Busic-Sontic, Ante; Fuerst, Franz - 2017
This study investigates whether energy efficiency investments are driven by differences in personality traits among … lowest quartile of Openness to Experience have 5.0%-23.4% lower propensity to invest in capital-intensive energy efficiency … efficiency investments into two groups yields stronger effects of the same two personality traits for window modernisations and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011719305
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Sleep Duration and Life Satisfaction
Piper, Alan T. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2015
Sleep is an important part of life, with an individual spending an estimated 32 years of her life asleep. Despite this importance, little is known about life satisfaction and sleep duration. Using German panel data, it is shown that sleep is an important factor for life satisfaction and that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240795
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Eine ökonometrische Analyse der Liquiditätsbeschränkung deutscher Haushalte im Lichte der US-Immobilienkrise
Maderitsch, Robert - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
In dieser Arbeit kommt ein neuer ökonometrischer Ansatz für Paneldaten zum Einsatz, welcher den Umgang mit persistenter, unbeobachtbarer Heterogenität in allgemeinen nichtseparablen und nonparametrischen Konstellationen ermöglicht. Der Ansatz geht zurück auf Hoderlein und White (2009)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003890
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Worker Reallocation across Occupations in Western Germany
Isaoglu, Aysen - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
This paper analyzes the determinants of annual worker reallocation across disaggregated occupations in western Germany for the period 1985-2003. Employing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, the pattern of average occupational mobility is documented. Worker reallocation is found to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671257
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Trade Union Membership and Dismissals
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
In Germany, there is no trade union membership wage premium, while the membership fee amounts to 1% of the gross wage. Therefore, prima facie, there are strong incentives to freeride on the benefits of trade unionism. We establish empirical evidence for a private gain from trade union membership...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008679946
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Income Comparisons, Income Adaptation, and Life Satisfaction: How Robust Are Estimates from Survey Data?
Pfaff, Tobias - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
Theory suggests that subjective well-being is affected by income comparisons and adaptation to income. Empirical tests of the effects often rely on self-constructed measures from survey data. This paper shows that results can be highly sensitive to simple parameter changes. Using large-scale...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010659950