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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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In this paper the German congestion management regime is analyzed and future congestion management costs are assessed given a higher share of intermittent renewable generation. In this context, cost-based re-dispatching of power plants and technical flexibility through topology optimization are considered as market-based and technical congestion management methods. To replicate the current market regime ...
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The Energy Journal
34 (2013), 4, S. 55-78
| Friedrich Kunz
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It is emphasized that the shocks in structural vector autoregressions are only identified up to sign and it is pointed out that this feature can result in very misleading confidence intervals for impulse responses if simulation methods such as Bayesian or bootstrap methods are used. The confidence intervals heavily depend on which variable is used for fixing the signs of the responses. In particular, ...
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Statistical Papers
54 (2013), 4, S. 1131-1145
| Helmut Lütkepohl
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In 1988 Basil Moore published his book Horizontalists and Verticalists: The Macroeconomics of Credit Money, which this year celebrates its 25th birthday. We discuss this book from today's perspective, and in particular whether Moore's main assertions have been validated or rejected by the development of central bank practice and academic monetary economics. We find that the book has impressively stood ...
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Review of Keynesian Economics
1 (2013), 4, S. 383-390
| Ulrich Bindseil, Philipp König
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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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We examine how children aged zero to 6 years with migration background and those who live with lone parents, or on low income or social assistance differ from other less disadvantaged groups in their use of formal ECEC services and non-formal education activities. Previous studies have shown that attendance rates are lower for children in some of these groups, who might benefit disproportionately from ...
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Child Indicators Research
6 (2013), 4, S. 709-735
| Pia S. Schober, C. Katharina Spieß
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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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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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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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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