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From gross wages to net household income : a distributional analysis of the gender wage gap ; conference paper

Gallego-Granados, Patricia; Geyer, Johannes - 2014

Numerous studies analyze gender wage differences focusing on gross hourly wages. The analysis of differences in gross wages allows statements on productivity differences between men and women and to quantify the unexplainable wage gap which is often attributed to discrimination. While there is...

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Inequality and the marriage gap : conference paper

Siassi, Nawid - 2014

Marriage is one of the most important determinants of economic prosperity, yet most existing theories of inequality ignore the role of the family. This paper documents that the cross-sectional distributions of earnings and wealth display a high degree of concentration, even when disaggregated...

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Cross-sectional and longitudinal equivalence scales for West Germany based on subjective data on life satisfaction : paper presented at the fifth meeting of the Society for the Stu...

Faik, Jürgen - 2013

The present study calculates variable, cross-sectional as well as longitudinal equivalence scales on the basis of the German 1984-2010 Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) database for West Germany. It follows the "individual variant" for calculating subjective equivalence scales using "life...

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Mobile telecommunications infrastructure and economic growth : evidence from China

Ward, Michael R.; Zheng, Shilin - 2014

We contribute to the role of telecommunications infrastructure on economic growth in three ways. We separately examine … growth. We find that mobile services contribute much more to growth but that the effect diminishes as the provincial economy …

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Behavioral effects of a federal minimum wage and income inequality in Germany : conference paper

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2013

Empirical studies on minimum wages are primarily concerned with employment while their effects on income inequality receive less attention. Yet, a popular argument for a federal minimum wage in Germany is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We examine this...

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Getting into GEAR : German and the rest of Euro area fiscal policy during the crisis ; conference paper

Gadatsch, Niklas; Hauzenberger, Klemens; Stähler, Nikolai - 2014

Germany and the rest of EMU affected GDP growth and unemployment during the crisis. Not surprisingly, stimulus programmes … positively affected domestic GDP growth rates while consolidation measures had a negative impact. The contribution of fiscal … policy on domestic GDP growth was only small, however, amounting to a maximum of 1.6% for Germany and 0.8% for the rest of …

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Testing the Easterlin hypothesis with panel data : the dynamic relationship between life satisfaction and economic growth in Germany and in the UK ; conference paper

Pfaff, Tobias; Hirata, Johannes - 2013 - This version: February, 2013

Recent studies focused on testing the Easterlin hypothesis (happiness and national income correlate in the cross-section but not over time) on a global level. We make a case for testing the Easterlin hypothesis at the country level where individual panel data allow exploiting important...

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Do large recessions reduce output permanently? : conference paper

Hosseinkouchack, Mehdi; Wolters, Maik H. - 2013

The slow recovery following the 2008/2009 recession has led to renewed interest in the question whether deep recessions lower real GDP permanently or whether we can expect a rebound to earlier trend levels. Using a recent quantile autoregression unit root test we check whether shocks to real GDP...

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Nonstationary-volatility robust panel unit root tests and the great moderation : conference paper

Hanck, Christoph; Czudaj, Robert - 2013

there are structural breaks in the innovation variances. A prominent example is the reduction in GDP growth variances …

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Do entrepreneurs really earn less? : conference paper

Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander - 2014

We compare, based on German data, the income of self-employed individuals with and without employees with the income of dependently employed individuals. Our results show that self-employed with employees tend to earn significantly higher incomes than their salaried counterparts, while with the...

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