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Skill premiums and the supply of young workers in Germany

Glitz, Albrecht; Wissmann, Daniel - 2017

medium-skilled workers which caused wage inequality at the lower part of the distribution to increase in recent decades. We …

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Using panel data on income satisfaction to estimate the equivalence scale elasticity

Schwarze, Johannes - 2000

In this paper a new method to estimate the equivalence scale elasticity using individual panel data on income satisfaction will be developed. In contrast to other subjective approaches, the present one benefits from the fact that no direct cardinal individual welfare function has to be...

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Using panel data on income satisfaction to estimate the equivalence scale elasticity

Schwarze, Johannes - 2000

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International trade and individual labour market perspectives : a micro-level analysis of German manufacturing workers

Lurweg, Maren; Uhde, Nicole - 2010

This paper studies the impact of international trade on individual labour market outcomes in the German manufacturing sector for the period 1995-2006. Combining micro-level data from the German Socioeconomic Panel and industry-level trade data from input-output tables, we examine the impacts on...

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International trade and individual labour market perspectives : a micro-level analysis of German manufacturing workers

Lurweg, Maren; Uhde, Nicole - 2010

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Higher-order income risk over the business cycle

Busch, Christopher; Ludwig, Alexander - 2020

We extend the canonical income process with persistent and transitory risk to shock distributions with left-skewness and excess kurtosis, to which we refer as higherorder risk. We estimate our extended income process by GMM for household data from the United States. We find countercyclical...

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Higher-order income risk over the business cycle

Busch, Christopher; Ludwig, Alexander - 2020

We extend the canonical income process with persistent and transitory risk to shock distributions with left-skewness and excess kurtosis, to which we refer as higher-order risk. We estimate our extended income process by GMM for household data from the United States. We find countercyclical...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012215285

The life-cycle and the business-cycle of wage risk : a cross-country comparison

Bayer, Christian; Juessen, Falko - 2009

This paper provides a cross-country comparison of life-cycle and business-cycle fluctuations in the dispersion of household-level wage innovations. We draw our inference from household panel data sets for the US, the UK, and Germany. First, we find that household characteristics explain about...

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Duration of maternity leave in Germany : a case study of nonparametric hazard models and penalized splines

Kuhlenkasper, Torben; Kauermann, Göran - 2009

The paper investigates maternity leave behavior in West Germany for females being employed between 1995 and 2006 using data from the German Socio Economic Panel. The observational study focuses on the investigation of individual and family-related covariate effects on the duration of maternity...

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Are people inequality averse, and do they prefer redistribution by the state? : evidence from German longitudinal data on life satisfaction

Schwarze, Johannes; Härpfer, Marco - 2002

We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre-government income distribution at the regional level, to … estimate the degree of inequality aversion. In addition, we investigate whether a reduction in inequality by the state … increases individual well-being. We find that Germans are inequality averse over the entire income distribution. However …

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