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Bauer, Thomas K.; Grave, Barbara S. - 2011

German universities are regarded as being under-financed, inefficient, and performing below average if compared to universities in other European countries and the US. Starting in the 1990s, several German federal states implemented reforms to improve this situation. An important part of these...

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Bauer, Thomas K.; Grave, Barbara S. - 2011

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Bauer, Thomas K.; Grave, Barbara S. - 2011

Deutschland Reformen zur Verbesserung dieser Situation durchgeführt. Ein wichtiger Teil dieser Reformen war die Einführung … indikatorenbasierter Finanzierungsmodelle. Diese Finanzierungsysteme sollten den Wettbewerb zwischen den Universitäten fördern, indem Teile … Quantils-Treatmenteffekten können wir die Hypothese, dass mehr Wettbewerb zwischen den Hochschulen Noteninflation verursacht …

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Imputed Rent and Income Inequality: A Decomposition Analysis for Great Britain, West Germany and the U.S.

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - In: Review of Income and Wealth 49 (2003) 4, pp. 513-537

This article deals with income advantages derived from owner-occupied housing and their impact on the personal income distribution. Using micro-data from the British Household Panel Study (BHPS), the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), and the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) we find...

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Examining the gender wealth gap

Sierminska, Eva M.; Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - In: Oxford Economic Papers 62 (2010) 4, pp. 669-690

Economic research on the determinants of gender differences in economic outcomes particularly in income and consumption is well established. Extending these investigations to other outcomes such as wealth up till now has been limited due to lack of individual-level data. Using the German...

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Pets and Human Health in Germany and Australia: National Longitudinal Results

Headey, Bruce; Grabka, Markus M. - In: Social Indicators Research 80 (2007), pp. 297-311

The German and Australian longitudinal surveys analysed here are the first national representative surveys to show that (1) people who continuously own a pet are the healthiest group and (2) people who cease to have a pet or never had one are less healthy. Most previous studies which have...

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The Impact of Household Capital Income on Income Inequality - A Factor Decomposition Analysis for the UK, Germany and the USA

Fräßdorf, Anna; Grabka, Markus M.; Schwarze, Johannes - In: The Journal of Economic Inequality 9 (2011) 1, pp. 35-56

This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro-data from the Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF) for three prominent panel studies, namely the BHPS for the UK, the SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, we use...

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In Vino Pecunia? The Association Between Beverage-Specific Drinking Behavior and Wages

Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Grabka, Markus M. - In: Journal of Labor Research 30 (2009), pp. 219-244

The positive association between moderate alcohol consumption and wages is well documented in the economic literature. Positive health effects as well as networking mechanisms serve as explanations for the “alcohol–income puzzle.” Using individual-based microdata from the SOEP for 2006, we...

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Severance Pay and the Shadow of the Law: Evidence for West Germany

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2005

Due to the complexity of employment protection legislation (EPL) in Germany, there is notable uncertainty about the outcomes of dismissal conflicts. In this study we focus on severance pay and inquire whether its incidence and level varies in a systematic manner with the legal rules as defined...

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The Demand for High-skilled Workers and Immigration Policy

Bauer, Thomas K.; Kunze, Astrid - 2003

This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the demand for high-skilled workers using a new firm data set, the IZA International Employer Survey 2000. Our results suggest that while workers from EU-countries are mainly complements to domestic high-skilled workers, workers from non-EU countries...

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