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In Europe, there are significant differences in the extent and in the structure of in-work poverty. Based on a comparison of 20 countries the present study analyses to what extent this is due to the differences in the institutional framework conditions of a given country. The analyses are based on micro data from the EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) of 2006 and macro data from ...
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Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
62 (2010), 1, S. 1-30
| Henning Lohmann
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster on satisfaction with life and on concern about the environment. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study and identifying the exogenous event through the exact date of occurance, I find that concern about the environment sharply increased immediately after the incident. However, there is no effect ...
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Kyklos
63 (2010), 1, S. 1-8
| Eva M. Berger
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This paper empirically analyzes the labor supply effects of two "making work pay" reforms in Germany. We provide evidence in favor of policies that distinguish between low effort and low productivity by targeting individuals with low wages rather than those with low earnings. We discuss our results more generally and with comparisons to the family-based tax credits in force in the US and the UK. For ...
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Journal of Population Economics
23 (2010), 1, S. 323-351
| Olivier Bargain, Marco Caliendo, Peter Haan, Kristian Orsini
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Tropical cyclones that make landfall on the coast of the USA are causing increasing economic losses. It is assumed that the increase in losses is largely due to socio-economic developments, i.e. growing wealth and greater settlement of exposed areas. However, it is also thought that the rise in losses is caused by increasing frequency of severe cyclones resulting from climate change, whether due to ...
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Regional Environmental Change
10 (2010), 1, S. 13-26
| Silvio Schmidt, Claudia Kemfert, Peter Höppe
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This study uses longitudinal panel data and short-term retest data from the same respondents in the German Socio-economic Panel to estimate the contribution of state and trait variance to the reliable variance in judgments of life satisfaction and domain satisfaction. The key finding is that state and trait variance contribute approximately equally to the reliable variance in well being measures. Most ...
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Social Indicators Research
95 (2010), 1, S. 19-31
| Ulrich Schimmack, Peter Krause, Gert G. Wagner, Jürgen Schupp
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We analyze the effects of accidents and liability obligations on the incentives of car manufacturers to monopolize the markets for their spare parts. We show that monopolized markets for spare parts lead to inefficiently high prices for spare parts. Furthermore, monopolization induces the manufacturers to choose inefficiently high qualities. The key for these results is the observation that high prices ...
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The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy
10 (2010), 1, Article 36
| Pio Baake
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In this study, we suggest an explanation for the low growth rates of real housing prices in Canada and Germany in comparison to other OECD countries over the period 1975-2005. We show that the long-run development of housing markets is determined by real disposable percapita income, the real long-term interest rate, population growth, and urbanization. The differential development of real housing prices ...
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Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
230 (2010), 1, S.59-76
| Konstantin A. Kholodilin, Jan-Oliver Menz, Boriss Siliverstovs
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Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Survey, this paper assesses the relationship between life satisfaction and religious practice. It is shown that individuals who become more religious over time record long term gains in life satisfaction, while those who become less religious record long term losses. This result holds net of the effects of personality traits, and also in fixed effects ...
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The Journal of Positive Psychology
5 (2010), 1, S. 73-82
| Bruce Headey, Jürgen Schupp, Ingrid Tucci, Gert G. Wagner
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Using representative survey data of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for 2006, we show that the magnitude of health inequality measures like the concentration index (CI) depends crucially on the underlying health measure. The highest degree of inequality is found when dichotomized subjective health measures like health satisfaction or self-assessed health (SAH) are employed. With the use ...
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Social Science & Medicine
71 (2010), 1, S. 116-124
| Nicolas R. Ziebarth
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Risk attitudes influence the complete life cycle of entrepreneurs. Whereas recent research underpins the theoretical proposition of a positive correlation between risk attitudes and the decision to become self-employed, the effects on survival are not as straightforward. Psychological research posits an inverse U-shaped relationship between risk attitudes and entrepreneurial survival. On the basis ...
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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
76 (2010), 1, S. 45-63
| Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos