We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we compare total individual income of permanent adult residents, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West Germany over the fifteen years for which data are available. Using a fixed effects vector decomposition...
Heiko Peters, Tilman Brück
Essen,
10.06.2010
- 12.06.2010| 24th Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE)
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...
Thomas Siedler, Silke Anger, Michael Kvasnicka
Essen,
10.06.2010
- 12.06.2010| 24th Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE)
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
Essen,
10.06.2010
- 12.06.2010| 24th Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE)
Heike Belitz, Martin Gornig, Alexander Schiersch
Reus, Spanien,
09.06.2010
- 11.06.2010| EUNIP 2010: European Network on Industrial Policy International Conference
Tilman Brück
Lissabon, Portugal,
07.06.2010
- 08.06.2010| The Behavioural and Cultural Foundations and Consequences of Violence: Workshop at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon
Damir Esenaliev, Susan Steiner
Bishkek, Kirgisistan,
07.06.2010
- 09.06.2010| Between Europe and the Orient - A Focus on Research and Higher Education in/on Central Asia: International Symposium
Nicolas R. Ziebarth, Joachim R. Frick
Darmstadt,
04.06.2010
- 06.06.2010| Health. Happiness. Inequality: Modelling the Pathways between Income Inequality and Health: Conference