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Value Change: More and More Germans Showing a Postmaterialistic Orientation
Kroh, Martin - In: Weekly Report 4 (2008) 13, pp. 80-85
the ongoing improvement of living conditions since the Second World War. Post-materialism is thus seen as a phenomenon …
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Wertewandel: immer mehr Ost- und Westdeutsche ticken postmaterialistisch
Kroh, Martin - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 34, pp. 480-486
Eine gängige These des Wertewandels lautet: Neue "postmaterialistische" Werte wie Emanzipation und Selbstentfaltung lösen traditionell bürgerliche Werte wie sozialer Aufstieg und ökonomische Sicherheit ab. Ursache diese Wandels, so die Theorie, ist die nachhaltige Verbesserung der...
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Materialistisch oder nicht? Werte prägen vor allem das Wahlverhalten: Fünf Fragen an Martin Kroh
Wittenberg, Erich; Kroh, Martin - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 34, pp. 481
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(Post-)materialist attitudes and the mix of capital and labour taxation
König, Tobias; Wagener, Andreas - 2008
Social values shape policy outcomes. We examine the role of postmaterialism, a widely used concept in the social … the degree of postmaterialism as the relative importance which individuals or a society as a whole ascribe to non … postmaterialism are developed from the World Values Surveys. Their impact on the tax mix is highly significant and goes into the …
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(Post-)materialist attitudes and the mix of capital and labour taxation
König, Tobias; Wagener, Andreas - 2008
Social values shape policy outcomes. We examine the role of postmaterialism, a widely used concept in the social … the degree of postmaterialism as the relative importance which individuals or a society as a whole ascribe to non … postmaterialism are developed from the World Values Surveys. Their impact on the tax mix is highly significant and goes into the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264949
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The preadult origins of post-materialism: a longitudinal sibling study
Kroh, Martin - 2008
shared experience of socioeconomic scarcity, we find that the intergenerational transmission of postmaterialism - which is …
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Single-peakedness and disconnected coalitions
Brams, Steven J.; Jones, Michael A.; Kilgour, D. Marc - 2002
Ordinally single-peaked preferences are distinguished from cardinally single-peaked preferences, in which all players have a similar perception of distances in some one-dimensional ordering. While ordinal single-peakedness can lead to disconnected coalitions that have a "hole" in the ordering,...
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Cluster identification and analysis: Four regional cases in Spain
Castillo, Jaime Del; Paton, Jonatan - 2011
The boom of clusters is leading to an 'explosion' of initiatives which in many cases lack an integrated approach. There are some methodologies which although strong technically, are expensive and often impossible to implement due to the shortage of basic information. This study proposes a...
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Firm Characteristics, Economic Conditions and Capital Structure Adjustment
Drobetz, Wolfgang; Pensa, Pascal; Wanzenried, Gabrielle - 2007
We use a dynamic framework and panel methodology to investigate the determinants of a firms' time-varying capital structure. Our sample comprises 706 European firms from France, Germany, Italy and the U.K. over the period from 1983 to 2002. If capital structure adjustment is costly, firms may...
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Changes in the Pattern of Household Electricity Demand over Time
Halvorsen, Bente; Larsen, Bodil M. - 1999
Empirical estimates of long run effects on residential electricity demand from changes in the electricity price are usually estimated by cross-sectional variation in the current stock of electric household appliances across households at a certain point in time. Here, we use a...
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