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This paper estimates the impact of competition policy on total factor productivity (TFP) growth for 22 industries in 12 OECD countries over 1995-2005. We find a positive and significanteffect of competition policy as measured by newly created indexes. We provide results based on instrumental variables estimators and heterogeneous effects to support the causal nature of the established link. The effect ...
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The Review of Economics and Statistics
95 (2013), 4, S. 1324-1336
| Paolo Buccirossi, Lorenzo Ciari, Tomaso Duso, Giancarlo Spagnolo, Cristiana Vitale
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Various studies interpret the positive correlation between income risk and wealth as evidence of significant precautionary savings. However, these high estimates emerge from pooling non-entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs, without controlling for heterogeneity. This article provides evidence for Germany based on representative panel data that includes private wealth balance sheets. Entrepreneurs, who face ...
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Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
75 (2013), 4, S. 528¿555
| Frank M. Fossen, Davud Rostam-Afschar
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We theorize how social policy affects marital stability vis-à-vis macro and micro effects of wives' employment on divorce risk in 11 Western countries. Correlations among 1990s aggregate data on marriage, divorce, and wives' employment rates, along with attitudinal and social policy information, seem to support specialization hypotheses that divorce rates are higher where more wives are employed and ...
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Social Politics
20 (2013), 4, S. 482-509
| Lynn Prince Cooke, Jani Erola, Marie Evertsson, Michael Gähler, J. Härkönen, Belinda Hewitt, M. Jalovaara, Man-Yee Kan, T. H. Lyngstad, L. Mencarini, J.-F. Mignot, D. Mortelmans, A. Poortman, Christian Schmitt, H. Trappe
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Studies on health effects of unemployment usually neglect spillover effects on spouses. This study specifically investigates the effect of an individual's unemployment on the mental health of their spouse. In order to allow for causal interpretation of the estimates, it focuses on plant closure as entry into unemployment, and combines difference-in-difference and matching based on entropy balancing ...
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Journal of Health Economics
32 (2013), 3, S. 546-558
| Jan Marcus
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Using representative microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), we show that the welfare measure choice has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health inequality. To assess the sensitivity of welfare-related health inequality measures, we combine a unique set of income and wealth measures with different subjective, cardinalized, and (quasi-)objective health measures. ...
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The European Journal of Health Economics
14 (2013), 3, S. 431-442
| Joachim R. Frick, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
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The introduction, abolition and subsequent re-introduction of the minimum wage in the German electrical trade gave rise to series of natural experiments, which are used to study minimum wage effects. We find similar impacts in all three cases on wages, employment and the receipt of public welfare benefits. Average wages are raised by the minimum wage in East Germany, but there is almost no evidence ...
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German Economic Review
14 (2013), 3, S. 316-348
| Bernhard Boockmann, Raimund Krumm, Michael Neumann, Pia Rattenhuber
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The aim of this study is to estimate the causal effect of family size on the proximity between older mothers and adult children by using a large administrative data set from Sweden. Our main results show that adult children in Sweden are not constrained by sibship size in choosing where to live: for families with more than one child, sibship size does not affect child-mother proximity. For aging parents, ...
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Demography
50 (2013), 3, S. 903-931
| Helena Holmlund, Helmut Rainer, Thomas Siedler
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Using data from national socio-economic panel surveys in Australia, Britain and Germany, this paper analyzes the effects of individual preferences and choices on subjective well-being (SWB). It is shown that, in all three countries, preferences and choices relating to life goals/values, partner's personality, hours of work, social participation and healthy lifestyle have substantial and similar effects ...
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Social Indicators Research
112 (2013), 3, S. 725-748
| Bruce Headey, Ruud Muffels, Gert G. Wagner
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Consumers increasingly prefer to bundle their purchases into a single shopping trip, inducing complementaries between initially independent or substitutable goods. Taking this one-stop shopping behavior into account, we show that slotting fees may emerge as a result of a rent-shifting mechanism in a three-party negotiation framework, where a monopolistic retailer negotiates sequentially with two suppliers ...
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Journal of Economics and Management Strategy
22 (2013), 3, S. 468-487
| Stéphane Caprice, Vanessa von Schlippenbach
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Mit der Einführung des Elterngeldes im Jahr 2007 beabsichtigte die Bundesregierung die Bedingungen für Familien mit jungen Kindern zu verbessern. Die neue familienpolitische Leistung hatte mehrere Ziele, von denen in diesem Beitrag drei zentrale untersucht werden: Zum Ersten sollte für Eltern in der Frühphase der Elternschaft ein Schonraum geschaffen werden. Zum Zweiten ist es ein erklärtes Ziel des ...
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Zeitschrift für Familienforschung
25 (2013), 2, S. 193-211
| Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, C. Katharina Spieß, Katharina Wrohlich