We suggest to use Internet car sale price advertisements for measuring economic inequality between and within German regions. Our estimates of regional income levels and Gini indices based on advertisements are highly, positively correlated with the official figures. This implies that the observed car prices can serve as a reasonably good proxy for income levels. In contrast to the traditional...
Konstantin A. Kholodilin, Boriss Siliverstovs
Leuven, Belgien,
02.12.2010
- 03.12.2010| International Workshop on Recent Issues in Economic Geography
Heike Belitz
Berlin,
02.12.2010
| Innovationsfinanzierung in KMU - Stand / Hemmnisse / Perspektiven: Symposium der Bundestagsfraktion der FDP und des Verbandes innovativer Unternernehmen
In 1999, in Germany, the statutory sick pay level was increased from 80 to 100 percent of foregone earnings for sickness episodes of up to six weeks. We show that this reform has led to an increase in average absence days of about 10 percent or one additional day per employee, per year. The estimates are based on SOEP survey data and parametric, nonparametric, and combined matching-regression...
Nicolas R. Ziebarth, Martin Karlsson
Tilburg, Niederlande,
01.12.2010
| Econometrics and Statistics Seminars of the CentER for Economic Research
Markus M. Grabka
Berlin,
30.11.2010
| Kinderarmut in Deutschland und Europa. Wo stehen wir am Ende des Europäischen Jahres zur Bekämpfung von Armut und sozialer Ausgrenzung?: Veranstaltung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft der deutschen Familienorganisationen e.V. (AGF) in Kooperation mit der Vertretung der Europäischen Kommission in Deutschland
Heike Belitz
Berlin,
29.11.2010
| Wachstumspotenziale innovativer Unternehmen: Kongress des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Technologie und des Verbandes Innovativer Unternehmen e.V. (VIU)
Anika Rasner, Markus M. Grabka, Joachim R. Frick
Jena,
26.11.2010
| Statistical Matching - Datenfusion, Anwendungen, methodische Probleme: Workshop des Sonderforschungsbereichs 580 Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Good decision-making often requires people to perceive and handle a myriad of statistical correlations. Notably, optimal portfolio theory depends upon a sophisticated understanding of the correlation between financial assets. In this paper, we examine people's understanding of correlation using a sequence of portfolio-allocation problems and find it to be strongly imperfect. Our experiment uses...
Georg Weizsäcker, Erik Eyster
Paris, Frankreich,
26.11.2010
| Economic Theory Seminars: Paris School of Economics
This paper investigates the short-term effects of public smoking bans on individual smoking behavior. In 2007 and 2008, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's sixteen federal states. We exploit this variation in the timing of state bans to identify the effect that smoke-free policies had on individuals' smoking propensity and smoking intensity. Using rich...
Silke Anger, Michael Kvasnicka, Thomas Siedler
Mannheim,
24.11.2010
| Applied Economics and Econometrics Seminar