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Based on brother correlations in permanent earnings for different groups of second generation immigrants, the findings in this paper indicate that cultural background is not a major determinant of the level of intergenerational economic mobility.
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Economics Letters
114 (2012), 3, S. 335-337
| Daniel D. Schnitzlein
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We study the determinants of sovereign bond yield spreads across 10 EMU countries between Q1/1999 and Q1/2010. We apply a semiparametric time-varying coefficient model to identify, to what extent an observed change in the yield spread is due to a shift in macroeconomic fundamentals or due to altering risk pricing. We find that at the beginning of EMU, the government debt level and the general investors' ...
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Journal of International Money and Finance
31 (2012), 3, S. 639-656
| Burcu Erdogan, Kerstin Bernoth
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We conduct a cross-national econometric analysis of intra-family location and caregiving patterns. Using European data, we first assess, from an international perspective, the relationship between family structure and the geographic proximity between adult children and their parents. We then examine whether differences in family structure are related to the amount of informal care adult children provide ...
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Population and Development Review
38 (2012), 2, S. 337-351
| Helmut Rainer, Thomas Siedler
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This article studies repeat or circular migration between the host and home countries using panel data for Germany, distinguishing between factors generating single moves, circular migration, and absorption. Migrants are more likely to leave early after their first arrival in Germany, and when they have social and familial bonds in the home country, but less likely when they have a job in Germany and ...
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International Migration Review
46 (2012), 2, S. 362-388
| Amelie Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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The Anti-trafficking Protocol reflects the interests of the major countries. Due to the high costs of compliance, countries will strategically select those obligations that will satisfy the major countries most efficiently with lower costs of compliance. Among the three main obligations of the Protocol - prevention, protection and prosecution - we predict that ratification leads to the strongest effect ...
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European Journal of Political Economy
28 (2012), 2, S. 249-265
| Seo-Young Cho, Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati
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This paper analyzes naming behavior in Germany in the context of rapid social change. It begins with an overview of general developments in naming in Germany over the last one hundred years, based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), which supplies us with almost 45,000 datasets. The paper focuses on the periods of World War II and the Cold War since we conclude that general developments ...
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Names: A Journal of Onomastics
60 (2012), 2, S. 74-89
| Anja Bruhn, Denis Huschka, Gert G. Wagner
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This study explored reciprocal associations between paternal child-care involvement and relationship quality by following British couples from the birth of a child until he or she reached school age. It extends the literature by distinguishing between paternal engagement in absolute terms and relative to the mother and by considering relationship quality reports of mothers and fathers and family breakdown. ...
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Journal of Marriage and Family
74 (2012), 2, S. 281-296
| Pia S. Schober
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Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in both positively and negatively reciprocal ways. So far it is rarely analyzed whether these variables of social cognition influence everyday decision making behavior. We focus on entrepreneurs who are permanently facing exchange processes in the interplay with investors, sellers, and buyers, as well as needing to ...
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Journal of Economic Psychology
33 (2012), 2, S. 394-409
| Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos
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If trade unions provide only their members with insurance against income variations, as a private good, this insurance will provide a stronger incentive for more risk-averse employees to become union members. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and various direct measures of individual risk attitudes, we find robust evidence of a positive relationship between risk aversion and the ...
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The Scandinavian Journal of Economics
114 (2012), 2, S. 275-295
| Laszlo Goerke, Markus Pannenberg
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We examine firms' motivation to change their main bank and how this switch affects loans, interest payments, and firm performance. Applying treatment effect analysis to unique firm-bank matched Ukrainian data, we find that larger and more highly leveraged companies are more likely to switch their main bank. Importantly, firms tend to switch to a new main bank that holds a higher share of equity in ...
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Emerging Markets, Finance & Trade
48 (2012), 2, S. 76-93
| Andreas Stephan, Andriy Tsapin, Oleksandr Talavera