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20 Years of German Unification: Evidence on Income Convergence and Heterogeneity
Brück, Tilman; Peters, Heiko - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we compare total individual income of permanent adult residents, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008461814
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20 Years of German Unification: Evidence on Income Convergence and Heterogeneity
Brück, Tilman; Peters, Heiko - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we compare total individual income of permanent adult residents, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565211
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20 Years of German Unification: Evidence on Income Convergence and Heterogeneity
Brück, Tilman; Peters, Heiko - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we compare total individual income of permanent adult residents, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008527284
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20 years of German unification: Evidence on income convergence and heterogeneity
Brück, Tilman; Peters, Heiko - Sachverständigenrat zur Begutachtung der … - 2009
We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we compare total individual income of permanent adult residents, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010982253
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A Vibrant European Labor Market with Full Employment
Ritzen, Jo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
employment is regained by more policy attention toward innovation and its underlying research and development (R&D), accompanied …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884389
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Les effets de la consommation de luxe sur la croissance économique : approches par les préférences non-homothétiques
Carlin, Anaïs - In: Innovations n°41 (2013) 2, pp. 51-70
studying the macroeconomic relationships between consumption of luxury, innovation and growth in the presence of non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011020701
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Is Inequality Good for Innovation?
Tselios, Vassilis - In: International Regional Science Review 34 (2011) 1, pp. 75-101
Is inequality good for innovation? This article addresses this question, using aggregated microeconomic data for 102 … relationship between patents, included as a proxy for innovation and income inequality. The results indicate that, given existing … levels of income inequality in European Union (EU), an increase in a region’s inequality favors innovation. In addition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372004
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Competition, Human Capital and Income Inequality with Limited Commitment
Marimon, Ramon; Quadrini, Vincenzo - Department of Economics, European University Institute - 2008
We develop a dynamic general equilibrium model with two-sided limited commitment to study how barriers to competition, such as restrictions to business start-up, affect the incentive to accumulate human capital. We show that a lack of contract enforceability amplifies the effect of barriers to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005816377
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Innovation, Inequality and Intellectual Property Rights
Weinhold, Diana; Reichert, Usha Nair- - EconWPA - 2004
play a role in the contemporaneous evolution of innovation in a broad cross section of countries today. Our results …, while 'home grown' innovation is more sensitive to internal structural and institutional factors. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407698
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Growth, Trade, and Inequality
Grossman, Gene; Helpman, Elhanan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We introduce firm and worker heterogeneity into a model of innovation-driven endogenous growth. Individuals who differ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083890