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Using a research design that traces siblings' preferences for postmaterialist values in Germany over two decades, this article provides new evidence on the origins of value preferences. Focusing on Inglehart's thesis of value change, the combined socialisation and scarcity hypothesis is tested against the social learning hypothesis - a prominent rival account of preadult value preference formation. ...
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European Journal of Political Research
48 (2009), 5, S. 598-621
| Martin Kroh
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Flow velocity is generally presumed to influence flood damage. However, this influence is hardly quantified and virtually no damage models take it into account. Therefore, the influences of flow velocity, water depth and combinations of these two impact parameters on various types of flood damage were investigated in five communities affected by the Elbe catchment flood in Germany in 2002. 2-D hydraulic ...
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Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
9 (2009), 5, S. 1679-1692
| Heidi Kreibich, Klaus Piroth, Isabell Seifert, Holger Maiwald, Uwe Kunert, Jochen Schwarz, Bruno Merz, Annegret H. Thieken
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This article analyzes differences in naming between East and West Germany. After World War II, Germany was split by the allied forces. Two Germanies emerged: the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR). The country's division lasted about forty years (1949-1989), a time span in which vastlydifferent geo-political frameworks - Eastern bloc versus Western bloc - shaped ...
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Names: A Journal of Onomastics
57 (2009), 4, S. 208-228
| Denis Huschka, Jürgen Gerhards, Gert G. Wagner
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We propose a generalized estimating equations (GEE) approach to the estimation of the mean and covariance structure of bivariate time series processes of panel data. The one-step approach allows for mixed continuous and discrete dependent variables. A Monte Carlo Study is presented to compare our particular GEE estimator with more standard GEE-estimators. In the empirical illustration, we apply our ...
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AStA Advances in Statistical Analysis
93 (2009), 4, S. 427-447
| Markus Pannenberg, Martin Spieß
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We examine hysteresis in EU and US unemployment by panel unit root tests. First generation tests indicate that unemployment is stationary. Second generation tests show mixed results. Idiosyncratic components are stationary in the US. A unit root in the US common component depends on the starting point of the sample. While the common component is nonstationary over the whole period, it is mean-reverting ...
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Spanish Economic Review
11 (2009), 4, S. 267-276
| Christian Dreger, Hans-Eggert Reimers
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For a long time, the social policy discussion in Germany has been heavily dominated by income inequality and poverty risk rates, while at the same time the analysis of personal wealth distribution was underdeveloped, last but not least due to a severe lack of appropriate data. Using representative micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), this paper analyzes individual level information ...
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Berliner Journal für Soziologie
19 (2009), 4, S. 577-600
| Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka
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This paper empirically examines social network explanations for migration decisions in the context of German reunification. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we first show that the presence of a family in West Germany is an important predictor for the migration hazard rate of East Germans. We then explore whether pre-migration networks have a discernible impact on the economic ...
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Economics of Transition
17 (2009), 4, S. 739-767
| Helmut Rainer, Thomas Siedler
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Extensive research efforts notwithstanding, scholars continue to disagree on the nature and meaning of party identification. Traditionalists conceive of partisanship as a largely affective attachment to a political party that emerges in childhood through parental influences and tends to persist throughout life. The revisionist conception of partisanship is that of a running tally of party utilities ...
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Political Behavior
31 (2009), 4, S. 559-574
| Martin Kroh, Peter Selb
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We measure trust and trustworthiness in British society with a newly designed experiment using real monetary rewards and a sample of the British population. The study also asks the typical survey question that aims to measure trust, showing that it does not predict 'trust' as measured in the experiment. Overall, about 40% of people were willing to trust a stranger in our experiment, and their trust ...
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Journal of the Royal Statistical Society / Series A
172 (2009), 4, S. 749-769
| John Ermisch, Diego Gambetta, Heather Laurie, Thomas Siedler, S. C. Noah Uhrig
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Taller populations are typically richer populations, and taller individuals live longer and earn more. In consequence, adult height has recently become a focus in understanding the relationship between health and wealth. We investigate the childhood determinants of population adult height, focusing on the respective roles of income and of disease. Across a range of European countries and the United ...
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Demography
46 (2009), 4, S. 647-669
| Carlos Bozzoli, Angus Deaton, Climent Quintana-Domeque