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The unification bonus (malus) in postwall Eastern Germany
Beblo, Miriam - 2001
bonus is defined as the discounted value of the difference between a person's actual income and his or her counterfactual … real income stream forecast for a hypothetical continuation of economic life in a static GDR. The two main issues tackled … centralized to a market economy and the estimation of plausible counterfactual income streams. Our central result is that 19 …
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Strategic Action in the Liberalised German Electricity Market
Wietze, Lise; Kemfert, Claudia; Tol, Richard S. J. - 2003
Nowadays, a process can be observed in Germany where electricity producing and trading firms react to the electricity market liberalisation by merging market shares, since the year 2000, which reduces the number of suppliers and influences production and consumer prices. This paper discusses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014088739
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Strategic action in the liberalised German electricity market
Lise, Wietze; Kemfert, Claudia; Tol, Richard S. J. - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001743026
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Strategic action in the liberalised German electricity market
Lise, Wietze; Kemfert, Claudia; Tol, Richard S. J. - 2003
Nowadays, a process can be observed in Germany where electricity producing and trading firms react to the electricity market liberalisation by merging market shares, since the year 2000, which reduces the number of suppliers and influences production and consumer prices. This paper discusses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011589477
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Human capital investments in children: A comparative analysis of the role of parent-child shared time in selected countries
Österbacka, Eva; Merz, Joachim; Zick, Cathleen D. - 2010
Parents invest in their children's human capital in several ways. We investigate the extent to which the levels and composition of parent-child time varies across countries with different welfare regimes: Finland, Germany and the United States. We test the hypothesis of parentchild time as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272656
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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
also plays an important role in explaining variations in family income, wages, education, and risk attitudes. …
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The sensitivity of distributional measures to the reference period of income
Schröder, Carsten - 2012
income is sometimes a month, sometimes a quarter, and sometimes a year. This reference period of income likely affects the … period of income. Estimates from annual, quarterly and monthly distributions are provided for one and a half decades …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286965
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Human capital investments in children: A comparative analysis of the role of parent-child shared time in selected countries
Österbacka, Eva; Merz, Joachim; Zick, Cathleen D. - 2010
Parents invest in their children's human capital in several ways. We investigate the extent to which the levels and composition of parent-child time varies across countries with different welfare regimes: Finland, Germany and the United States. We test the hypothesis of parentchild time as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290473
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Mobilisierung alternativer Finanzressourcen: Erfahrungen mit der Einführung von Studiengebühren : Vortrag bei der Tagung "Quoi de neuf sur l'Allemagne ? Les universités allemandes...
Petersen, Hans-Georg - 2008
education costs ; human capital ; lifetime income ; income contingent loans … costs ; human capital ; lifetime income ; income contingent loans …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003789758
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Survey evidence on conditional norm enforcement
Traxler, Christian; Winter, Joachim - 2009
We discuss survey evidence on individuals' willingness to sanction norm violations such as evading taxes, drunk driving, fare dodging, or skiving off work by expressing disapproval or social exclusion. Our data suggest that people condition their sanctioning behavior on their belief about the...
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