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Der vorliegende Beitrag beschäftigt sich vor dem Hintergrund spezifischer Rekrutierungsmuster im Berufsfeld Wissenschaft mit der sozialstrukturellen Zusammensetzung der Professorenschaft im Fach Soziologie. Grundlage ist eine Gesamterhebung der Professorinnen und Professoren an universitären soziologischen Fachinstituten und ausgewählten außeruniversitären wissenschaftlichen Einrichtungen. Untersuchte ...
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Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
62 (2010), 4, S. 751-766
| Steffen Mau, Denis Huschka
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In 1997, the Comision Reguladora de Energia of Mexico implemented a netback rule for linking the Mexican natural gas price to the Texas price. At that time, the Texas price reflected a reasonably competitive market. There have been dramatic increases in the demand for gas, and there are various bottlenecks in the supply of gas. As a result, the price of gas in Texas now reflects the quasi-rents created ...
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The Southern Economic Journal
76 (2010), 4, S. 1131-1136
| Dagobert L. Brito, Juan Rosellón
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The authors analyse newly collected time-series data measuring the dimensions of violent political conflict in Egypt. Attention is focused on the interaction between politically motivated attacks by Islamists and the counter-insurgency measures used by the Egyptian government. Both insurgency and counter-insurgency are multidimensional. Insurgencyincludes attacks on tourists, on Egyptian civilians ...
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Journal of Peace Research
47 (2010), 4, S. 433-448
| David Fielding, Anja Shortland
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This article explores the relationship between kinship institutions and sex ratios in India at the turn of the twentieth century. Because kinship rules vary by caste, language, religion, and region, we construct sex ratios by these categories at the district level by using data from the 1901 Census of India for Punjab (North), Bengal (East), and Madras (South). We find that the male-to-female sex ratio ...
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Demography
47 (2010), 4, S. 989-1012
| Tanika Chakraborty, Sukkoo Kim
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The German chemical manufacturing industry experienced major downsizing between 1992 and 2004, with the average size of firms shrinking by nearly half during this period. This study uses modern frontier efficiency analysis to investigate the determinants of this downsizing. Based on reliable census data, the results of this analysis suggest that firms were not primarily concerned with improving technical ...
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Small Business Economics
34 (2010), 4, S. 413-431
| Oleg Badunenko
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In political economics, the impact of institutions on income redistribution is mainly studied by comparing different forms of representative democracy. In this article, we analyze the influence of direct democratic institutions on redistribution first focusing on welfare and nonwelfare spending using yearly panel data for Swiss cantons. Then, we estimate a model, which explains the determinants of ...
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Economic Inquiry
48 (2010), 4, S. 817-840
| Lars P. Feld, Justina A. V. Fischer, Gebhard Kirchgässner
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After 20 years of transition, productivity in Eastern Germany is still considerably below the Western level. We study the development of the East-West productivity gap at the firm level and link it to firms' product policy. Redesigning their product range was a major challenge for Eastern enterprises as they sought their place in the international division of labour. Based on data from manufacturing ...
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Post-Communist Economies
22 (2010), 4, S. 499-511
| Bernd Görzig, Martin Gornig, Ramona Voshage, Axel Werwatz
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We estimate a dynamic structural life-cycle model of employment, non-employment and retirement that includes endogenous accumulation of human capital and intertemporal non-separabilities in preferences. In addition, the model accounts for the effects of income tax, social security contributions and the transfer system on work incentives. The structural parameter estimates are used to evaluate the employment ...
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The Econometrics Journal
13 (2010), 3, S. S99-S125
| Peter Haan, Victoria Prowse
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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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Complementing prior research on income and educational mobility, we examine the intergenerational transmission of cognitive abilities. We find that individuals' cognitive skills are positively related to their parents' abilities, despite controlling for educational attainment and family background. Differentiating between mothers' and fathers' IQ transmission, we find different effects on the cognition ...
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Journal of Population Economics
23 (2010), 3, S. 1105-1132
| Silke Anger, Guido Heineck