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In political economics, the impact of institutions on income redistribution is mainly studied by comparing different forms of representative democracy. In this article, we analyze the influence of direct democratic institutions on redistribution first focusing on welfare and nonwelfare spending using yearly panel data for Swiss cantons. Then, we estimate a model, which explains the determinants of ...
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Economic Inquiry
48 (2010), 4, S. 817-840
| Lars P. Feld, Justina A. V. Fischer, Gebhard Kirchgässner
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Der vorliegende Beitrag beschäftigt sich vor dem Hintergrund spezifischer Rekrutierungsmuster im Berufsfeld Wissenschaft mit der sozialstrukturellen Zusammensetzung der Professorenschaft im Fach Soziologie. Grundlage ist eine Gesamterhebung der Professorinnen und Professoren an universitären soziologischen Fachinstituten und ausgewählten außeruniversitären wissenschaftlichen Einrichtungen. Untersuchte ...
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Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
62 (2010), 4, S. 751-766
| Steffen Mau, Denis Huschka
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Economic research on the determinants of gender differences in economic outcomes particularly in income and consumption is well established. Extending these investigations to other outcomes such as wealth up till now has been limited due to lack of individual-level data. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) we find a significant "raw" gender wealth gap of 50,000€ for married partners. Decomposition ...
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Oxford Economic Papers
62 (2010), 4, S. 669-690
| Eva M. Sierminska, Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka
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We estimate a dynamic structural life-cycle model of employment, non-employment and retirement that includes endogenous accumulation of human capital and intertemporal non-separabilities in preferences. In addition, the model accounts for the effects of income tax, social security contributions and the transfer system on work incentives. The structural parameter estimates are used to evaluate the employment ...
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The Econometrics Journal
13 (2010), 3, S. S99-S125
| Peter Haan, Victoria Prowse
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Introduction to the Special Issue
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Zeitschrift für Familienforschung
22 (2010), 3, S. 261-265
| Christian Schmitt, Heike Trappe
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We perform a comparative analysis of regional growth and convergence in China, Russia and India over the period 1993-2003 by means of non-parametric methods and kernel density estimates. Our results indicate that wealthy regions were largely responsible for the rapid growth in all three countries. For China and India, capital dissipation was identified as the major determinant of regional growth. In ...
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Economics of Transition
18 (2010), 3, S. 539-570
| Oleg Badunenko, Kiril Tochkov
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This paper analyzes the efficiency of an explicit ex ante auction for network access to facilitating trade between two separate, but linked, electricity wholesale markets. It is generally assumed that greater regional interconnection will mitigate the exercise of local market power by dominant generators, but we show analytically that when a dominant player has access to a more competitive neighboring ...
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Journal of Regulatory Economics
37 (2010), 3, S. 243-265
| Georg Zachmann
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In 2007 and 2008 Polish governments introduced a series of reforms which led to a substantial reduction in the tax "wedge" (in Polish: "klin") on labour. These consisted of reductions in the disability rate of social security contributions (SSCs) and an introduction of an income tax credit for families with children. We show that the SSCs reforms on their own brought much greater reductions in the ...
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Labour Economics
17 (2010), 3, S. 556-566
| Leszek Morawski, Michal Myck
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We provide the first joint evidence on the relationship between individuals' cognitive abilities, their personality and earnings for Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we employ scores from an ultra-short IQ-test and a set of measures of personality traits, namely locus of control, reciprocity and all basic items from the Five Factor Personality Inventory. Our estimates ...
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Labour Economics
17 (2010), 3, S. 535-546
| Guido Heineck, Silke Anger
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Complementing prior research on income and educational mobility, we examine the intergenerational transmission of cognitive abilities. We find that individuals' cognitive skills are positively related to their parents' abilities, despite controlling for educational attainment and family background. Differentiating between mothers' and fathers' IQ transmission, we find different effects on the cognition ...
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Journal of Population Economics
23 (2010), 3, S. 1105-1132
| Silke Anger, Guido Heineck