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Enrolments in higher education in West Germany : the impact of social background, labour market returns and educational funding
Lauer, Charlotte - 2000
This paper analyses the determinants of participation in higher education in West Germany. In particular, the role of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445166
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Minimum wages and poverty
Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L. - 1998 - (Second Revision)
employing rather restrictive assumptions that guarantee the conclusion that an increase in the minimum wage reduces poverty. In … contemporaneous changes in poverty rates. For the period 1983-96, we find indication of a poverty-reducing effect of minimum wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442312
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Intra- und intergenerationale Umverteilungseffekte in der bundesdeutschen Alterssicherung auf Basis humankapitaltheoretischer Überlegungen
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm (contributor);  … - 2008
In der folgenden Studie möchten wir ausgewählte Aspekte von intra- und intergenerationalen Umverteilungseffekten im System der bundesdeutschen Alterssicherung auf der Basis der Humankapitalheorie mit Simulationsmethoden analysieren. Falls es das Ziel der Politik ist, die Ungleichheit des...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003650247
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Unemployment persistence : is there evidence for stigma effects?
Biewen, Martin (contributor); Steffes, Susanne (contributor) - 2008
We present evidence for a highly significant interaction between state dependence in individual unemployment risk and the business cycle. The disadvantage from having been unemployed in the previous period is smaller in times of relatively high unemployment and larger in times of low...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003745095
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Online but still divided : inequality in private internet use in Germany
Coneus, Katja; Schleife, Katrin - 2010
internet use in Germany. Our work offers three important innovations. First, we use the exact weekly duration of internet use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003979123
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Decreasing wage mobility in Germany
Gernandt, Johannes - 2009
development and the explanations of wage mobility, as well as volatility in West Germany, measured by ranks in the wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003875240
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Unequal pay or unequal employment? : What drives the skill-composition of labor flows in Germany?
Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry; Lehmer, Florian - 2011
This paper examines the determinants of gross labour flows in a context where modeling the migration decision as a wage-maximizing process may be inadequate due to regional wage rigidities that result from central wage bargaining. In such a context, the framework that has been developed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009424119
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Trends in the German income distribution : 2005/06 to 2010/11
Biewen, Martin; Ungerer, Martin; Löffler, Max - 2016
We analyze the potential influence of a number of factors on the distribution of equivalized net incomes in Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011574887
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Measuring fuel poverty : general considerations and application to German household data
Heindl, Peter - 2013
poverty lines as well as techniques for fuel poverty measurement. Based on household data from Germany, figures that would …Fuel poverty may become an increasingly severe problem in developed countries in cases when real prices for fossil … fuels increase at high rates or when real energy prices increase due to policies for greenhouse gas abatement. Fuel poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009777613
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Coordinating to protect the global climate : experimental evidence on the role of inequality and commitment
Tavoni, Alessandro; Dannenberg, Astrid; Löschel, Andreas - 2010
Free riding and coordination difficulties are held to be the primary causes of cooperation breakdown among nonrelatives. These thwarting effects are particularly severe in the absence of effective monitoring institutions capable of sanctioning deviant behavior. Unfortunately, solutions to global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003989030