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Various studies interpret the positive correlation between income risk and wealth as evidence of significant precautionary savings. However, these high estimates emerge from pooling non-entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs, without controlling for heterogeneity. This article provides evidence for Germany based on representative panel data that includes private wealth balance sheets. Entrepreneurs, who face ...
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Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
75 (2013), 4, S. 528¿555
| Frank M. Fossen, Davud Rostam-Afschar
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The introduction, abolition and subsequent re-introduction of the minimum wage in the German electrical trade gave rise to series of natural experiments, which are used to study minimum wage effects. We find similar impacts in all three cases on wages, employment and the receipt of public welfare benefits. Average wages are raised by the minimum wage in East Germany, but there is almost no evidence ...
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German Economic Review
14 (2013), 3, S. 316-348
| Bernhard Boockmann, Raimund Krumm, Michael Neumann, Pia Rattenhuber
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Studies on health effects of unemployment usually neglect spillover effects on spouses. This study specifically investigates the effect of an individual's unemployment on the mental health of their spouse. In order to allow for causal interpretation of the estimates, it focuses on plant closure as entry into unemployment, and combines difference-in-difference and matching based on entropy balancing ...
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Journal of Health Economics
32 (2013), 3, S. 546-558
| Jan Marcus
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Using data from national socio-economic panel surveys in Australia, Britain and Germany, this paper analyzes the effects of individual preferences and choices on subjective well-being (SWB). It is shown that, in all three countries, preferences and choices relating to life goals/values, partner's personality, hours of work, social participation and healthy lifestyle have substantial and similar effects ...
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Social Indicators Research
112 (2013), 3, S. 725-748
| Bruce Headey, Ruud Muffels, Gert G. Wagner
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The aim of this study is to estimate the causal effect of family size on the proximity between older mothers and adult children by using a large administrative data set from Sweden. Our main results show that adult children in Sweden are not constrained by sibship size in choosing where to live: for families with more than one child, sibship size does not affect child-mother proximity. For aging parents, ...
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Demography
50 (2013), 3, S. 903-931
| Helena Holmlund, Helmut Rainer, Thomas Siedler
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Consumers increasingly prefer to bundle their purchases into a single shopping trip, inducing complementaries between initially independent or substitutable goods. Taking this one-stop shopping behavior into account, we show that slotting fees may emerge as a result of a rent-shifting mechanism in a three-party negotiation framework, where a monopolistic retailer negotiates sequentially with two suppliers ...
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Journal of Economics and Management Strategy
22 (2013), 3, S. 468-487
| Stéphane Caprice, Vanessa von Schlippenbach
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Using representative microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), we show that the welfare measure choice has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health inequality. To assess the sensitivity of welfare-related health inequality measures, we combine a unique set of income and wealth measures with different subjective, cardinalized, and (quasi-)objective health measures. ...
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The European Journal of Health Economics
14 (2013), 3, S. 431-442
| Joachim R. Frick, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
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In social science literature there is a wide range of effectiveness studies for early education and care programmes for young children. But these studies usually distinguish the effects of these programmes without considering their costs. This is where efficiency analysis studies in Economics begin. This article presents three fundamental approaches to efficiency analysis before looking in more detail ...
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Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft
16 (2013), 2, S. 333-354
| C. Katharina Spieß
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In this paper we report the use of the open source Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Modeler (STEM, www.eclipse.org/stem) to compare three basic models for seasonal influenza transmission. The models are designed to test for possible differences between the seasonal transmission of influenza A and B. Model 1 assumes that the seasonality and magnitude of transmission do not vary between influenza A and ...
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Journal of Transport Economics and Policy
47 (2013), 2, S. 191-206
| Chris Nash, Jan-Eric Nilsson, Heike Link
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We estimate a model of intertemporal male labor supply behavior which explicitly accounts for the effect of income taxation and the transfer system. Moreover, we model the demand-side driven rationing risk that prevents agents from choosing the optimal labor supply state. Our results show that elasticities derived in an unconstrained pure choice model are significantly higher compared to a model with ...
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Empirical Economics
44 (2013), 2, S. 661-683
| Peter Haan, Arne Uhlendorff