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This paper examines the role of the health gradient – the positive correlation between household income and health – in individual retirement behavior, using data from the German Socio-economic Panel (GSOEP). We first estimate agegroup-specific health gradients and find their slope increases...
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with a finite decision. This paper suggests that this agonistic approach needs de-cisions or simply put, temporary … decisions drawn from seeing a decision as a solution for now. A de-cision is not a no-decision, but a decision recognised as … planning process from being a matter of reaching a finite decision to a strife about how to understand the present and which …
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Changes in the field of security since the 1990s triggered off a number of still continuing military transformations in liberal democracies. Since their armed forces were designed for the purposes of the bipolar Cold war security constellation, they have been “redesigned” according to the...
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Within the context of the current political discussion over base realignments and closures (BRACs) in Germany, this …
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precursor of entrepreneurial development - parental role models - for the individual decision to become self-employed in the … post-unified Germany. The findings suggest that the socialist regime significantly damaged this mechanism of an … parental role model and the decision to become self-employed for less-educated people. For West Germans the positive …
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science. Based on a sample of more than 1,000 scientists at universities and public research institutes in Germany, this paper …
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German newspapers and the business press since the 1990s could have influenced the processes of decision-making over … relocation by amplifying the disadvantages of remaining in Germany and neglecting the conflicts and additional costs arising for …
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retrofits for existing houses in Germany. In the experiment, the approximately 400 sampled house owners could either choose a …
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