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Refereed essays Web of Science
Households can rely on private savings or on public unemployment insurance to hedge against the risk of becoming unemployed. These hedging mechanisms are used differently across countries. In this paper, we use a life cycle model to study the effects of unemployment on the portfolio choice of households in the US and in Germany. We distinguish short- and long-term unemployment and find that, in case ...
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Journal of Macroeconomics
40 (2014), S. 90-113
| Franziska Bremus, Vladimir Kuzin
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Refereed essays Web of Science
We apply recently proposed individual welfare measures in the context of preference heterogeneity, derived from structural labour supply models. Contrary to the standard practice of using reference preferences and wages, these measures preserve preference heterogeneity in the normative step of the analysis. They also make the ethical priors, implicit in any interpersonal comparison, more explicit. ...
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International Tax and Public Finance
22 (2015), Iss. 2, S. 224-251
| André Decoster, Peter Haan
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This paper investigates the relationship between wealth, ageing and saving behaviour of private households by using pooled cross sections of German consumption survey data. Different components of wealth are distinguished, as their impact on the savings rate is not homogeneous. On average, the effect attributed to real estate dominates the other components of wealth. In addition, the savings rate strongly ...
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International Economics and Economic Policy
12 (2015), 2, S. 163-173
| Ansgar Belke, Christian Dreger, Richard Ochmann
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Press Release
In January 2014, the European Commission proposed a framework for its climate and energy policy up to 2030. It includes targets for reducing greenhouse gases and using renewable energies, but no specific targets for increasing energy efficiency. By 2030, greenhouse gas emissions are to be reduced by 40 percent over 1990 figures. Another element of the proposal is the introduction of a market stability ...
05.03.2014
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SOEPpapers 633 / 2014
In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality has dropped in countries that have experienced income growth (but not in those that did not). Modern growth has reduced the share of both the "very unhappy" and the "perfectly happy". The extension of public amenities has certainly contributed to this greater happiness homogeneity. This ...
2014| Andrew E. Clark, Sarah Flèche, Claudia Senik
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SOEPpapers 634 / 2014
We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to poverty. We use panel data on almost 45,800 individuals living in Germany from 1992 to 2011 to show first that life satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. We then reveal that there is little evidence of adaptation within a poverty spell: poverty ...
2014| Andrew E. Clark, Conchita D'Ambrosio, Simone Ghislandi
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Personnel news
Michael Zschille, from September 2009 to August 2013 doctoral student at the DIW Berlin Graduate Center and since September 2013 researcher at the department Firms and Markets, has successfully (summa cum laude) defended his doctoral thesis "Firm Performance and Industry Structure: Nonparametric Efficiency Analysis in the Water Sector" at the Technical University Berlin in February 2014. ...
03.03.2014
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Personnel news
Florian Mölders has successfully (summa cum laude) defended his doctoral thesis "Development, trade agreements and knowledge spillovers - Five empirical essays" at the University of Duisburg-Essen in February 2014. His thesis was supervised by Professor Ansgar Belke, University of Duisburg-Essen and Professor Matthias Busse, Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Since September 2009, Florian ...
03.03.2014
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Personnel news
Michael Weinhardt left the SOEP on January 1, 2014. He is now working as a research associate at the University of Bielefeld on the German contribution to the European Social Survey, which is under the charge of Stefan Liebig. Michael completed his doctoral thesis on “The influence of values on occupational choice and the intergenerational transmission of inequality” and will be defending ...
28.02.2014
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Organising Institutions: Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)
Organizers: Marcel Fratzscher, Francesco Giavazzi, Richard Portes, Beatrice Weder di Mauro, Charles Wyplosz
Venue and HostKfW Bankengruppe, Berlin Branch, Charlottenstraße 33a, 10117 BerlinKarl Friedrich Schinkel‐Hall
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