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Household Sector Innovation in China : Impacts of Income and Motivation
Jin, Chen - 2020
This research note reports upon the first survey of household sector innovation in China. Compared to previous survey studies we add two first-of-kind variables and related findings.First, we include data on individual income, a resource-related antecedent of household sector innovation. We find...
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Dissemination of two faces of knowledge : do liberal-democracy and income-level matter
Hasanzadeh, Samira - 2017
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Household Sector Innovation in China : Impacts of Income and Development
Jin, Chen - 2018
In this paper, we report findings from a first nationally-representative survey of household sector innovation in China, and offer two major new findings to that literature stream. First, we find that 23.2 million Chinese citizens are household innovators when we include householders who develop...
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Wage Mobility in East and West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Schnitzlein, Daniel - 2011
markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage … mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the 1990s and moderately in East and West Germany since the late 1990s …
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Earnings Prospects for People with Migration Background in Germany
Thomsen, Stephan L.; Gernandt, Johannes; Aldashev, Alisher - 2007
Less than half of the people with migration background living in Germany possess foreign citizenship. Hence, using … Germany lead to better earnings prospects compared to degrees obtained abroad for persons with migration background …. Independently of gender and skill level, the estimates affirm higher earnings to educational attainment in Germany. …
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The optimal choice of a reference standard for income comparisons: indirect evidence from immigrants' return visits
Stichnoth, Holger - 2009
I propose two new tests of Falk and Knell's (2004)prediction that individuals'reference income increases with ability. To overcome the difficulty that the reference income is not observed in existing large data sets, I extend Falk and Knell's model to establish a link between immigrants'...
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The Optimal Choice of a Reference Standard for Income Comparisons: Indirect Evidence from Immigrants' Return Visits
Stichnoth, Holger - 2010
I propose two new tests of Falk and Knell's (2004) prediction that individuals' reference income increases with ability. To overcome the difficulty that the reference incomeis not observed in existing large data sets, I extend Falk and Knell's model to establish a link between immigrants'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600907
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Die Eignung des Taxpayer-Panels zur Identifizierung von Selbstständigen und Gründungen
Suprinovič, Olga; Kranzusch, Peter - 2014
Auf der Basis der Einkommensteuerdaten lassen sich Angaben zu Selbstständigen sowie zu Gründungen nach Tätigkeitsarten ermitteln. Bis zum Jahr 2007 ist die Anzahl der Personen mit selbstständigen Tätigkeiten auf 6,8 Millionen gestiegen. Davon entfallen rund eine Million auf...
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How Important Is the Family? Evidence from Sibling Correlations in Permanent Earnings in the USA, Germany, and Denmark
Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - In: Journal of Population Economics 27 (2014) 1, pp. 69-89
in Germany and to provide a cross-country comparison of Germany, Denmark, and USA. The main findings are that family and … community background has a stronger influence on permanent earnings in Germany than in Denmark, and a comparable influence is … found in USA. This holds true for both male and female siblings. A deeper analysis of Germany shows that family background …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010478789
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Wage mobility in East and West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2011
markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage … mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the 1990s and moderately in East and West Germany since the late 1990s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286898