Drawing on representative household data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examine the role of an early 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...

Several reviews and impact assessment studies have concluded that the Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP6) succeeded in fostering scientific excellence and attracting the 'A Team' in public science. However, these studies typically fail to contrast their...

The paper examines the role of discourse in supporting firm's decisions to relocate and how main actors influence such discourse. If there is uncertainty about the general functioning of the economy, discourse is the place where ideas and paradigms, and possible options of behavior, are created....

Residential buildings strongly contribute to global CO2 emissions due to the high energy demand for electricity and heating, particularly in industrialised countries. Within the EU, decentralised heat generation is of particular relevance for future climate policy, as its emissions are not...

Dieses Diskussionspapier beschäftigt sich mit bestehenden Ansätzen, "Good Governance" auf lokaler Ebene zu konzeptualisieren und zu operationalisieren. Es möchte damit einen Beitrag zur Diskussion um die Anwendbarkeit und den praktischen Wert von derlei Ansätzen leisten. Sein Ziel ist es...

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...

Using data from national socio-economic panel surveys in Australia, Britain and Germany, this paper analyzes the effects of individual preferences and choices on subjective well-being (SWB). It is shown that, in all three countries, preferences and choices relating to life goals/values,...

In diesem Working-Paper werden Faktoren untersucht, die die Einweisungsentscheidung niedergelassener Ärzte in der Praxis beeinflussen. Im Rahmen dessen wurden Hypothesen formuliert, welche auf der Datenbasis von neun teilnehmenden Krankenhäusern am durchgeführten Projekt zum Einweiser-...