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Tax incentives, bequest motives, and the demand for life insurance : evidence from two natural experiments in Germany
Sauter, Nicolas; Walliser, Jan; Winter, Joachim - 2010
Whole life insurance plays an important role in household saving. However, empirical evidence on its determinants is scarce. This paper studies two natural experiments to identify the effects of tax incentives and bequest motives on life-insurance demand. An unanticipated tax reform in 2000...
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The causal effect of watching TV on material aspirations : evidence from the “valley of the innocent”
Hyll, Walter; Schneider, Lutz - 2012
Fernsehprogramm der BRD nicht in allen Teilen der DDR empfangen werden. Deshalb gibt es eine exogene Variation mit Blick auf die …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009664639
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Freie Berufe in der DDR, der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und im wiedervereinigten Deutschland : Auswertungen von Berufstätigenerhebung und Arbeitsstättenzählung
Rönnau, Andreas - 1995
ersten Teil der Arbeit wird die jährlich durchgeführte Totalstatistik der DDR, die "Berufstätigenerhebung", vorgestellt und … bezüglich der Struktur der Freien Berufe in der DDR für das Jahr 1989 ausgewertet. Die Berufstätigenerhebung wurde 1990 ein … werden können. -- Freie Berufe ; BRD ; DDR ; Berufstätigenerhebung ; Arbeitsstättenzählung …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009667622
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Exposure to television and individual beliefs : evidence from a natural experiment
Hennighausen, Tanja - 2012 - This version: October 2012
Does the information provided by mass media have the power to persistently affect individual beliefs about the drivers of success in life? To answer this question empirically, this contribution exploits a natural experiment on the reception of West German television in the former German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009668468
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The introduction of piecework in East Germany, 1945 - 51
Geerling, Wayne; Magee, Gary Bryan - 2012
This paper examines the introduction of piecework, a key aspect of the Soviet workplace, in occupied East Germany. As elsewhere, its implementation encountered persistent hostility from the workforce. What made this episode different, though, was that this process occurred within a context of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009553019
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Conspicuous consumption and communism : evidence from East and West Germany
Friehe, Tim; Mechtel, Mario - 2012
This paper investigates the influence of the political regime on the relative importance of conspicuous consumption. We use the separation of Germany into the communist GDR and the democratic FRG and its reunification in 1990 as a natural experiment. Relying on household data that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009621765
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A tear in the iron curtain : the impact of western televison on consumption behavior
Bursztyn, Leonardo; Cantoni, Davide - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009621881
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Conspicuous consumption and communism : evidence from East and West Germany
Friehe, Tim; Mechtel, Mario - 2012
This paper investigates the influence of the political regime on the relative importance of conspicuous consumption. We use the separation of Germany into the communist GDR and the democratic FRG and its reunification in 1990 as a natural experiment. Relying on household data that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009633841
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A tear in the iron curtain : the impact of western television on consumption behavior
Bursztyn, Leonardo; Cantoni, Davide - 2012
This paper examines the impact of exposure to foreign media on the economic behavior of agents in a totalitarian regime. We study private consumption choices focusing on former East Germany, where differential access to Western television was determined by geographic features. Using data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009656215