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This paper studies risk attitudes of unemployed job seekers and their relationship to self-reported reservation wages. We find that risk aversion is prevalent, and that reservation wages decrease slightly over time. Furthermore, risk aversion and reservation wages are negatively correlated.
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Economics Letters
106 (2010), 3, S. 223-226
| Markus Pannenberg
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This study deals with the impact of socioeconomic conditions and social integration into a local neighborhood on individual life satisfaction in Germany. While the majority of ecological studies to date are based on very broad neighborhood concepts, using large research units for defining neighborhood the present study contains micro-geographic information on a representative sample of private households ...
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Social Indicators Research
96 (2010), 3, S. 497-513
| Jörg Dittmann, Jan Goebel
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Most empirical distributional studies of well-being in developed countries rely on distributions of disposable income. From a theoretical point of view this practice is contentious since a household's command over resources is determined not only by its spending power over commodities it can buy in the market but also on resources available to the household members through non-market mechanisms such ...
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Journal of Housing Economics
19 (2010), 3, S. 167-179
| Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka, Timothy M. Smeeding, Panos Tsakloglou
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This paper analyzes the early research performance of PhD graduates in labor economics, addressing the following questions: Are there major productivity differences between graduates from American and European institutions? If so, how relevant is the quality of the training received (i.e. ranking of institution and supervisor) and the research environment inthe subsequent job placement institution? ...
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Scientometrics
84 (2010), 3, S. 621-637
| Ana Rute Cardoso, Paulo Guimarães, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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In response to increasing health expenditures and a high number of physician visits, the German government introduced a copayment for ambulatory care in 2004 for individuals with statutory health insurance (SHI). Because persons with private insurance were exempt from the copayments, this health-care reform can be regarded as a natural experiment. We used a difference-in-difference approach to examine ...
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The European Journal of Health Economics
11 (2010), 3, S. 331-341
| Jonas Schreyögg, Markus M. Grabka
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We investigate price level convergence on the base of regional data for 439 German districts.. - First and second generation tests are applied to the overall consumer price index as well as to the index without housing prices. They indicate a lack of regional price convergence. The. - second generation tests reveal that the source of the unit root is likely common for all regions. One rationale of ...
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Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
230 (2010), 3, S. 274-286
| Christian Dreger, Reinhold Kosfeld
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How individual wages change with time is one of the crucial determinants of labour market decisions including the timing of retirement. The focus of this paper is the relationship between age and wages with special attention given to individuals nearing retirement. The analysis is presented in a comparative context for Britain and Germany looking at two longitudinal data sets (BHPS and SOEP, respectively) ...
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Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
72 (2010), 3, S. 282-306
| Michal Myck
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In 2007 and 2008 Polish governments introduced a series of reforms which led to a substantial reduction in the tax "wedge" (in Polish: "klin") on labour. These consisted of reductions in the disability rate of social security contributions (SSCs) and an introduction of an income tax credit for families with children. We show that the SSCs reforms on their own brought much greater reductions in the ...
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Labour Economics
17 (2010), 3, S. 556-566
| Leszek Morawski, Michal Myck
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We provide the first joint evidence on the relationship between individuals' cognitive abilities, their personality and earnings for Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we employ scores from an ultra-short IQ-test and a set of measures of personality traits, namely locus of control, reciprocity and all basic items from the Five Factor Personality Inventory. Our estimates ...
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Labour Economics
17 (2010), 3, S. 535-546
| Guido Heineck, Silke Anger
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This paper analyzes the efficiency of an explicit ex ante auction for network access to facilitating trade between two separate, but linked, electricity wholesale markets. It is generally assumed that greater regional interconnection will mitigate the exercise of local market power by dominant generators, but we show analytically that when a dominant player has access to a more competitive neighboring ...
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Journal of Regulatory Economics
37 (2010), 3, S. 243-265
| Georg Zachmann