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Analysis of consumer-related and consumer-generated data is a very important way to measure the success of on-line retailing. The software packages for data analysis have two major shortcomings: (1) solutions are not offered as a service reachable by standard procedures over the Internet, but as isolated standalone applications or ERP system modules; (2) privacy restrictions need to be integrated into ...
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International Journal of Electronic Commerce
12 (2008), 3, S. 115-150
| Bettina Berendt, Sören Preibusch, Maximilian Teltzrow
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This paper investigates the association between obesity and skill attainment in early childhood (aged 2-3 years). Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study are used to estimate models of developmental functioning in four critical areas (verbal skills, activities of daily living, motor skills, and social skills) as a function of various measures of weight (including body mass index and obesity) ...
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Economics and Human Biology
6 (2008), 3, S. 388-397
| John Cawley, C. Katharina Spieß
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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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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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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
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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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This study examines the relation between corporate governance practices measured by the Transparency Disclosure Index (TDI) and dividend payouts in Poland. Our empirical approach lies in constructing measures of the quality of the corporate governance in 110 non-financial companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange between 1998 and 2004.We find evidence that an increase in the TDI or its sub-indices ...
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Post-Communist Economies
20 (2008), 2, S. 203-218
| Oskar Kowalewski, Ivan Stetsyuk, Oleksandr Talavera
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This paper empirically analyzes whether the character-based approach, which focuses on the personality structure and the human capital of business founders, allows prediction of entrepreneurial success. A unique data set is used consisting of 414 persons whose personal characteristics were analyzed by different methods, namely an one-day assessment center (AC) and a standardized questionnaire, before ...
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Kyklos
61 (2008), 2, S. 189-214
| Marco Caliendo, Alexander S. Kritikos
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This paper provides an explanation for the empirically proven relationship between overtime and future benefits. We suggest an internal signaling model, in which a worker signals his value to the employer by supplying unpaid overtime. In our empirical analysis, we examine whether overtime has in fact a signaling component. Variations in collectively bargained hours between industries are exploited, ...
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Scottish Journal of Political Economy
55 (2008), 2, S. 167-189
| Silke Anger
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While several European and national studies have dealt with the acceptability of road pricing schemes for passenger transport, only sparse research is available on this issue for freight transport. Against this background, the paper deals with the acceptability of the German road user-charging scheme for heavy goods vehicles by the road haulage industry. It presents the findings of an internet-based ...
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Transport Reviews
28 (2008), 2, S. 141-158
| Heike Link