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We empirically derive the welfare effects of a shift from joint to individual taxation of married households in Germany. For the welfare evaluation we estimate the preference heterogeneity and use normative welfare concepts proposed by Fleurbaey (2006) to address the difficulties of comparison between and aggregation of heterogeneous agents. Our results suggest that the normative choice of the welfare ...
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Finanzarchiv
70 (2014), 4, S. 599-624
| André Decoster, Peter Haan
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Two literatures exist concerning cross-border merger activity's impact on domestic wages: one focusing on positive spillover effects; the other focusing on negative bargaining effects.Motivated by scarce theoretical scholarship spanning these literatures, we nest both mechanisms in a single conceptual framework. Considering the separate phenomena of inward and outward cross-border merger activity, ...
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Journal of International Business Studies
45 (2014), 4, 450-470
| Joseph A. Clougherty, Klaus Gugler, Lars Sörgard, Florian W. Szücs
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We study the effect of a merger in a dynamic high-technology industry—the videogame market—which is characterized by the frequent introduction of new products. To assess the impact of the merger between two large specialist retailers in the United Kingdom—Game Group PLC and Games Station Limited—we perform a difference-in-differences analysis comparing the price evolution of the merging parties with ...
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Journal of Competition Law & Economics
10 (2014), Iss. 4, S. 933-958
| Luca Aguzzoni, Elena Argentesi, Paolo Buccirossi, Lorenzo Ciari, Tomaso Duso, Massimo Tognoni, Christiana Vitale
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The first minimum wage in Germany was introduced in 1997 for blue-collar workers in sub-sectors of the construction industry. In the setting of a natural experiment, blue-collar workers in neighboring 4-digit industries and white-collar workers are used as control groups for differences-in-differences-in-differences estimation based on linked employer-employee data. Estimation results reveal a sizable ...
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Empirical Economics
46 (2014), 4, 1429-1446
| Pia Rattenhuber
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Based on a large, representative German household panel, we investigate to what extent the personality of individuals influences the entry decision into and the exit decision from self-employment. We reveal that some traits, such as openness to experience, extraversion, and risk tolerance affect entry, but different ones, such as agreeableness or different parameter values of risk tolerance, affect ...
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Small Business Economics
42 (2014), 4, S. 787-814
| Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos
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We suggest using information from the state register of personal cars as an alternative indicator of economic inequality in countries with a large share of shadow economy. We illustrate our approach using the Latvian pool of personal cars. Our main finding is that the extent of household economic inequality in Latvia is much larger than officially assumed. According to Eurostat, the officially published ...
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The Review of Income and Wealth
60 (2014), No. 4, 948-966
| Boriss Siliverstovs, Konstantin A. Kholodilin, Vyacheslav Dombrovsky
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Recent research has repeatedly demonstrated that well-being typically evinces precipitous deterioration close to the end of life. However, the determinants of individual differences in these terminal declines are not well understood. In this study, we examine the role of perceived personal control as a potential buffer against steep terminal declines in well-being. We applied single- and multiphase ...
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Psychology and Aging
29 (2014), 3, S. 612-625
| Denis Gerstorf, Jutta Heckhausen, Nilam Ram, Frank J. Infurna, Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner
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Der Beitrag widmet sich der Beschreibung interethnischer Freundschaften zwischen Zuwanderern, ihren Nachkommen und der Mehrheitsbevölkerung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Das Augenmerk richtet sich auf die zwischen verschiedenen Migrantengruppen und Generationen bestehenden Unterschiede in den Beziehungsmustern sowie auf die Bedingungen ihrer Entstehung. Die Aufnahme interethnischer Kontakte wird ...
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Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
66 (2014), 3, 445-458
| Diana Schacht, Cornelia Kristen, Ingrid Tucci
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Vermarktlichung und Globalisierung haben den Profifußball und die Zusammensetzung von Mannschaften fundamental verändert. Vor dem Hintergrund der veränderten Rahmenbedingungen untersucht der Beitrag, in welchem Maße (a) der Marktwert einer Mannschaft, (b) ihre interne Ungleichheit, (c) die kulturelle Diversität eines Teams sowie (d) der Grad der Fluktuation im Team über den sportlichen Erfolg in nationalen ...
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Zeitschrift für Soziologie
43 (2014), 3, S. 231-250
| Jürgen Gerhards, Michael Mutz, Gert G. Wagner
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This paper studies the relationships between annual and subannual inequality and mobility during the course of the year. We apply an exact decomposition framework as outlined in Wodon and Yitzhaki (Econ Bull 4:1–8, 2003), and in Yitzhaki and Wodon (Research on Economic Inequality 12:179–199, 2004). Earnings records of pension insurants in Germany serve as the database. The long time horizon of our ...
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Journal of Economic Inequality
12 (2014), Iss. 3, S. 393-409
| Carsten Schröder, Yolanda Golan, Shlomo Yitzhaki