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Who invests in training if contracts are temporary? Empirical evidence for Germany using selection correction

This study deals with the effect of fixed-term contracts on work-related training. Though previous studies found a negative effect of fixed-term contracts on the participation in training, from the theoretical point of view it is not clear whether workers with fixed-term contracts receive less or more training, compared to workers with permanent contracts. In addition to the existing strand of literature, ...

Wer arbeitet, ist der Dumme - Die Ausbeutung der Mittelschicht

Wo ist die Mitte?

Beware the Mean!

Das Gesetz war ein richtiger und wichtiger Schritt": BZ-INTERVIEW mit dem Wirtschaftswissenschaftler Christoph Wunder über die Auswirkungen des Nichtraucher-Schutzgesetzes

Seit zehn Jahren ist das Rauchen in Gaststätten und Kneipen in Deutschland verboten. Was anfangs zu Protesten führte, ist heute weitgehend akzeptiert. Mit den Konsequenzen des Nichtraucher-Schutzgesetzes hat sich eine Forschergruppe der Unis Halle-Wittenberg und Nürnberg-Erlangen beschäftigt. Michael Saurer befragte den Mitautor der Studie, Christoph Wunder, über die Ergebnisse der Untersuchung.

Bequest Motives and the Demand for Life Insurance in East Germany

Empirical studies of household saving remain inconclusive about the role of bequest motives. This may be due to the diluting effect of different tax regimes across countries and time on estimates of bequest motives. Relative to market-based economies, the former German Democratic Republic can be viewed as an experimental institutional setting where life-insurance demand was not influenced by tax considerations. ...

Social networks as a catalyst of economic change

This letter finds that East Germans with strong social ties invested earlier in a popular new financial product after reunification, while long-term ownership remained unaffected. Hence, studies of the economic impact of social networks should distinguish transitory from long-run effects.

Tax incentives, bequest motives and the demand for life insurance: evidence from a natural experiment in Germany

This paper studies the role of taxation and bequest motives in households’ demand for life insurance. We develop a stylized three-period life cycle model of life insurance demand and test its predictions regarding tax changes and bequests motives. An unexpected halving of the tax exemption limit for interest and dividend income in Germany allows us to identify the impact of changes in taxation on the ...

On the Non-Stationarity of German Income Mobility (and Some Observations on Poverty Dynamics)

On Income Mobility in Germany