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homeownership rate and conservative house price development, Germany represents a least-likely case for housing to be of importance …Traditional predictors of election outcomes in Germany are increasingly losing their explanatory power. Rather than new … cultural divides, this paper introduces the idea of housing cleavages, i.e., homeownership versus tenancy and high-price versus …
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disparities in homeownership rates between eastern and western Germany as well as between rural, urbanized and agglomerated …A wide range of aggregate data is used to examine the spatial variation in homeownership rates among a cross-section of … spatial dependence in homeownership levels. In addition to familiar demographic and socioeconomic variables, the regional …
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rates and the homeownership-income inequality among young households in Finland, Germany, Italy, the UK and the US, and … highest and most equally distributed homeownership in this country as well. The mortgage market in Germany is on the other …This paper uses the newly constructed Luxembourg Wealth Study data to document cross-country variation in homeownership …
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The causes and consequences of child labour are examined theoretically and empirically within a household decision framework, with endogenous fertility and mortality. The data come from a nationally representative survey of Indian rural households. The complex interactions uncovered by the...
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This paper is focused on couple households where the wife is the main earner. The economic literature on this subject is particularly scant. According to our estimates, the wife was the main earner in one of every six couple households in France in 2002, including wife-sole-earner households....
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We estimate the effects of the reform of the German Unemployment Insurance that replaced the wage related Unemployment Assistance with an income maintenance program and stronger means testing. We model the tax-benefit system and use the Socio-Economic Panel. We estimate a discrete labour supply...
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This research evaluates the impact on German household labor supply of various subsidy schemes proposed to foster low-wage employment. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate a discrete choice model of household labor supply. On the basis of the estimated labor supply...
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Beitrag zur Erklärung der Diskrepanz zwischen potenzieller und tatsächlicher Nachfrage in Deutschland geleistet. Dazu wurde … über die sozioökonomischen Charakteristika, Nachfragehemmnisse und Präferenzen von potenziellen Profiteuren in Deutschland …
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strong smoothness assumptions nor local symmetry. We apply the method to house transactions from Berlin, Germany. The …
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We present a model that integrates the discrete working time choice of heterogenous households into a general equilibrium setting where wages are determined by sectoral bargaining between firms and trade unions. The model is calibrated to German micro and macro data. We then use it to analyse...
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