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Education, Gender and Earnings in France and Germany: Level and Dispersion Effects
Lauer, Charlotte - 2004
This paper analyses the relationship between education, gender and earnings in France and Germany. The model chosen here enables to estimate the impact of education not only on the expected earnings level but also on their dispersion, taking gender-specific sample selectivity into account. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297379
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EU enlargement and immigration
Kraus, Margit; Schwager, Robert - 2000
accession affects income gaps. Moreover, if EU membership is refused, fear of future restrictions on immigration will lead to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297670
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Map Intersection Based Merging Schemes for Administrative Data Sources and an Application to Germany
Arntz, Melanie; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2005
In many situations the applied researcher wants to combine different data sources without knowing the exact link and merging rule. This paper introduces a theoretical framework how two different regional administrative data sources can be merged. It presents different merging schemes based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297429
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Empirical determinants of employee resistance against innovations
Zwick, Thomas - 2000
Employee resistance against innovations is a virulent phenomenon and there is a broad theoretical literature on its determinants. The empirical evidence is scarce, however, and mainly provides descriptive evidence on the incidence of the phenomenon and concentrates on the effectiveness of change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297711
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Volatilitätseffekte am US-amerikanischen Häusermarkt
Schindler, Felix - 2009
Während direkte Immobilieninvestments lang Zeit als renditeträchtig bei gleichzeitig begrenztem Risiko galten, führte den Anlegern insbesondere die gegenwärtige Finanzmarktkrise vor Augen, dass auch Immobilienanlagen insbesondere in den USamerikanischen Häusermarkt mit hohen Risiken...
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Do environmental benefits matter? A choice experiment among house owners in Germany
Achtnicht, Martin - 2010
Residential buildings strongly contribute to global CO2 emissions due to the high energy demand for electricity and heating, particularly in industrialised countries. Within the EU, decentralised heat generation is of particular relevance for future climate policy, as its emissions are not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302995
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Homeownership rates, housing policies, and co-residence decisions
Grevenbrock, Nils; Ludwig, Alexander; Siassi, Nawid - 2023
Homeownership rates differ widely across European countries. We document that part of this variation is driven by … homeownership rates per household, homeownership rates per individual are very similar during the first part of the life cycle. To … understand these patterns, we build an overlapping-generations model where individuals face uninsurable income risk and make …
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Do local governments tax homeowner communities differently?
Füss, Roland; Lerbs, Oliver - 2017
and historical war damages as a source of exogenous variation in local homeownership, we provide empirical evidence that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011730873
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Distributional and Behavioural Effects of the German Labour Market Reform
Clauss, Markus; Schnabel, Reinhold - 2008
Assistance with an income maintenance program and stronger means testing. We model the tax-benefit system and use the Socio …-distribution method. Poverty and inequality decline overall, since households with children and low income gain, while those who used to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297991
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Earnings Prospects for People with Migration Background in Germany
Thomsen, Stephan L.; Gernandt, Johannes; Aldashev, Alisher - 2007
Less than half of the people with migration background living in Germany possess foreign citizenship. Hence, using citizenship to analyze economic issues of immigration may be problematic for two reasons. On the one hand, a quite substantial share of persons with migration background is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297935