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Health and Health Behaviors during the Worst of Times: Evidence from the Great Recession
Tekin, Erdal; McClellan, Chandler; Minyard, Karen Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
While previous studies have shown that recessions are associated with better health outcomes and behaviors, the focus … previously established counter-cyclical pattern in health and heath behaviors is held during the Great Recession. Using data from … capturing health and health behaviors, we show that the association between economic deterioration and these outcomes has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010814470
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Preferred vs. Actual Working Hours - A Ten Years Paneleconometric Analysis for Professions, Entrepreneurs and Employees in Germany
Merz, Joachim; Lang, Rainer - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1997
Labour market dynamics according the individual working hour tension (preferred working hours minus actual working hours) of active people with focus on the self-employed, as professions and entrepreneurs, and employees are investigated in our study. The individual longitudinal analysis based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619337
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Preferred vs. Actual Working Hours - A Ten Years Paneleconometric Analysis for Professions, Entrepreneurs and Employees in Germany
Merz, Joachim; Lang*, Rainer - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1997
Labour market dynamics according the individual working hour tension (preferred working hours minus actual working hours) of active people with focus on the self-employed, as professions and entrepreneurs, and employees are investigated in our study. The individual longitudinal analysis based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619698
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Microsimulation - A Survey of Methods and Applications for Analyzing Economic and Social Policy
Merz, Joachim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994
This essential dimensions of microsimulation as an instrument to analyze and forecast the individual impacts of alternative economic and social policy measures are surveyed in this study. The basic principles of microsimulation, which is a tool for practical policy advising as well as for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260287
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Zeitverwendungsforschung und Mediennutzung
Merz, Joachim - Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe, Fakultät … - 2009
The possibilities of time use research approaches for the analysis of the use of media is the focus of this study. After describing previous studies of media analyses time use research is characterised and the particular suitability of its central surveying instruments – stylised survey...
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Time Use and Time Budgets – Improvements, Future Challenges and Recommendations
Merz, Joachim - Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe, Fakultät … - 2009
; leisure and recreation; pension plans; and health-care programmes, among others” (United Nations). This expertise will discuss …
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De facto anonymised microdata file on income tax statistics 1998
Merz, Joachim; Vorgrimler, Daniel; Zwick, Markus - Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe, Fakultät … - 2006
With the data of the de facto anonymised Income Tax Statistics 1998 (FAST 98), the German official statistics are for the first time publishing microdata from the field of fiscal statistics. The scientific community can use these data to analyse politically-relevant questions on the fiscal and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010535601
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Market and Non-market Labor Supply and Recent German Tax Reform Impacts - Behavioral Response in a Combined Dynamic and Static Microsimulation Model
Merz, Joachim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993
This study on market and non-market labor supply and taxes is based on a theoretical microeconomic model with multiple labor supply in the formal and informal economy. This multiple time allocation model, which explicitly takes into account taxes, transfer payments, socioeconomic characteristics...
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Statistik und Freie Berufe im Rahmen einer empirischen Wirtschafts- und Sozialforschung
Merz, Joachim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993
In meiner Antrittsvorlesung versuche ich, meine Forschungs- und Lehrvorhaben in drei Themenkomplexen zu umschreiben. Der erste Themenbereich 'Statistik und Freie Berufe', zugleich Denomination meiner Professur, beschreibt nach den Charakteristika Freier Berufe Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der...
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Was fehlt in der EVS? - Eine Verteilungsanalyse hoher Einkommen mit der verknüpften Einkommensteuerstatistik für Selbständige und abhängig Beschäftigte
Merz, Joachim - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 223 (2003) 1, pp. 58-90
Prominente Mikrodatenbasis für die Analyse von Einkommen und ihrer Verteilung ist die Einkommens- und Verbrauchsstichprobe (EVS). Allerdings sind hohe Einkommen über der "Abschneidegrenze" von 35 000 DM Haushaltsnettoeinkommen pro Monat nicht vorhanden. In dieser Studie wird erstmals der Frage...
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