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In:
Health Economics
11 (2002), 8, 709-722
| Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Bernard M.S. van Praag
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In:
Journal of Economic Inequality
1 (2003), 2, 107-127
| Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Bernard M.S. van Praag
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Using self reported measures of life satisfaction and risk attitudes, we empirically test whether there is a relationship between individuals inequality and risk aversion. The empirical analysis uses the German SOEP household panel for the years 1997 to 2007 to conclude that the negative effect of inequality measured by the sample gini coefficient by year and federal state is larger for those individuals ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2010,
(SOEPpapers 271)
| Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Xavier Ramos
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In recent years there has been an accumulation of empirical evidence suggesting that individuals dislike inequality. The literature has built upon estimating the degree of this dislike as well as its causes. The use of self-reported measures of satisfaction or well-being as a proxy for utility has been one of the empirical strategies used to this end. In this survey, we review the papers that estimate ...
In:
Journal of Economic Surveys
28 (2013), 5, 1016-1027
| Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Xavier Ramos
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This paper investigates whether and to what extent immigrants in Germany are integrated into German society by utilizing a variety of qualitative information and subjective data collected in the 1999 wave of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP).To this end, leisure-time activities and attitudes of native Germans, ethnic Germans and foreign immigrants of different generations are compared. The empirical ...
Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2004,
(IZA DP No. 1213)
| Michael Fertig
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In:
RWI:News 1/2005
(2005), 2-4
| Michael Fertig
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Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2003,
(IZA DP No. 956)
| Michael Fertig, Christoph M. Schmidt
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This paper investigates whether and to what extent demographic change has an impact on human capital accumulation. The effect of the relative cohort size on educational attainment of young adults in Germany is analyzed utilizing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for West-German individuals of the birth cohorts 1966 to 1986. These are the cohorts which entered the labor market since the 1980's. ...
In:
Labour Economics
16 (2009), 6, 659-668
| Michael Fertig, Christoph M. Schmidt, Matthias G. Sinning
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Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2007,
(SOEPpapers 30)
| Michael Fertig, Stefanie Schurer
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In:
WSI Mitteilungen
58 (2005), 5, 239-243
| Michael Fertig, Marcus Tamm