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Longitudinal data spanning 22 years, obtained from deceased participants of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP; N = 1,637; 70- to 100-year-olds), were used to examine if and how life satisfaction exhibits terminal decline at the end of life. Changes in life satisfaction were more strongly associated with distance to death than with distance from birth (chronological age). Multiphase growth ...
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Developmental Psychology
44 (2008), 4, S. 1148-1159
| Denis Gerstorf, Nilam Ram, Ryne Estabrook, Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner, Ulman Lindenberger
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The Chinese government is building the largest public credit information database on earth. The Credit Registry Center of the People's Bank of China registers more than 600 million consumers of which 110 million have a credit relationship with a financial institution. The Center is a public utility monopoly which collects information from banks and non-bank institutions - a unique approach developed ...
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China Economic Review
19 (2008), 4, S. 537-550
| Nicola Jentzsch
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This paper tests the hypothesis that the ongoing restructuring process in the European electricity sector has led to a common European market for electricity. Based on a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) of wholesale electricity prices in 2002-2006, we reject the assumption of full market integration. For several pairs of countries, the weaker hypothesis of (bilateral) convergence is accepted based ...
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Energy Economics
30 (2008), 4, S. 1659-1671
| Georg Zachmann
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Using representative micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), this paper delivers new insights into the development of income inequality and regional stratification in Germany after unification. This paper applies a new method for detecting social stratification by a decomposition of the Gini index that yields the obligatory between- and within-group components as well as an 'overlapping' ...
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Regional Studies
42 (2008), 4, S. 555-577
| Joachim R. Frick, Jan Goebel
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The paper investigates the role of human capital on immigrants' ethnic ties towards their home and host countries. Pre-migration characteristics dominate ethnic self-identification. Human capital acquired in the host country does not affect the attachment to the receiving country
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Economics Letters
98 (2008), 3, S. 235-239
| Laura Zimmermann, Liliya Gataullina, Amelie Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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While global migration is increasing, internal EU migration flows have only increased slowly. This paper contributes to a better understanding of the determinants and scale of European migration. It surveys previous historical experiences and empirical findings including the recent Eastern enlargements. The determinants of migration before and after the 2004 enlargement and in the EU15 and EU10 countries ...
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Oxford Review of Economic Policy
24 (2008), 3, S. 428-452
| Anzelika Zaiceva, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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Using probabilistic expectations data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we establish a link between self-reported expectations of occupational mobility and preferences for redistribution. Our results provide new evidence on the validity of the "prospect of upward mobility" hypothesis. (
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Economics Letters
99 (2008), 3, S. 449-453
| Helmut Rainer, Thomas Siedler
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We test the hypothesis that rising prices of emission allowances have a stronger impact on wholesale electricity prices than falling prices (asymmetric cost pass-through). Using an autoregressive distributed lag model, we confirm this hypothesis for the German market
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Economics Letters
99 (2008), 3, S. 465-469
| Georg Zachmann, Christian von Hirschhausen
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We evaluate three policy reforms targeted at older unemployed people: (i) an hourly wage subsidy, (ii) an in-work credit, and (iii) an employment bonus in the form of subsidized social security contributions on low wages. The work-incentive, labor-supply, and welfare effects of these policy reforms are analyzed on the basis of a behavioral microsimulation model for Germany. We find that the simulated ...
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Finanzarchiv
64 (2008), 3, S. 380-402
| Peter Haan, Viktor Steiner
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In Germany, support for families includes diverse types of financial and material aid. These different programs are not aligned and coordinated, but rather stand alone alongside each other and are far from being transparent. This article argues that this situation could be remedied by grouping the various family-related support measures within a single family support agency as a parafiscal institution. ...
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Zeitschrift für Familienforschung
20 (2008), 3, S. 322-340
| C. Katharina Spieß