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We empirically derive the welfare effects of a shift from joint to individual taxation of married households in Germany. For the welfare evaluation we estimate the preference heterogeneity and use normative welfare concepts proposed by Fleurbaey (2006) to address the difficulties of comparison between and aggregation of heterogeneous agents. Our results suggest that the normative choice of the welfare ...
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Finanzarchiv
70 (2014), 4, S. 599-624
| André Decoster, Peter Haan
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According to the literature on traditional banking, lenders often discriminate against female borrowers. However, studies of Peer-to-Peer lending in the United States find that female borrowers have better chances of obtaining funds than do males. We provide evidence on the success of female borrowers at a large German peer-to-peer lending platform. Our results show that there is no effect of gender ...
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German Economic Review
15 (2014), 4, S. 436-452
| Nataliya Barasinska, Dorothea Schäfer
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We here present the earliest input–output table of Germany: It covers forty economic branches, five final demand categories, and five primary inputs. The symmetric table for 1936 is completely based on original statistical data and does not rely on separate supply and use tables. The core of our endeavor is based on the German industrial census of 1936. The input–output table offers a new benchmark ...
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European Review of Economic History
18 (2014), 4, S. 371-397
| Rainer Fremdling, Reiner Stäglin
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Based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study, this article analyses the effects of workplace training in Germany on subjective job security. Using fixed-effects models, this article tests whether workplace training has positive effects on perceived job security, and if so, whether the returns are of a short- or long-term nature. The results confirm a positive effect of workplace training ...
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Journal of European Social Policy
24 (2014), 4, S. 337-350
| Bettina Kohlrausch, Anika Rasner
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We suggest using information from the state register of personal cars as an alternative indicator of economic inequality in countries with a large share of shadow economy. We illustrate our approach using the Latvian pool of personal cars. Our main finding is that the extent of household economic inequality in Latvia is much larger than officially assumed. According to Eurostat, the officially published ...
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The Review of Income and Wealth
60 (2014), No. 4, 948-966
| Boriss Siliverstovs, Konstantin A. Kholodilin, Vyacheslav Dombrovsky
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The first minimum wage in Germany was introduced in 1997 for blue-collar workers in sub-sectors of the construction industry. In the setting of a natural experiment, blue-collar workers in neighboring 4-digit industries and white-collar workers are used as control groups for differences-in-differences-in-differences estimation based on linked employer-employee data. Estimation results reveal a sizable ...
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Empirical Economics
46 (2014), 4, 1429-1446
| Pia Rattenhuber
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Based on a large, representative German household panel, we investigate to what extent the personality of individuals influences the entry decision into and the exit decision from self-employment. We reveal that some traits, such as openness to experience, extraversion, and risk tolerance affect entry, but different ones, such as agreeableness or different parameter values of risk tolerance, affect ...
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Small Business Economics
42 (2014), 4, S. 787-814
| Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos
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Vermarktlichung und Globalisierung haben den Profifußball und die Zusammensetzung von Mannschaften fundamental verändert. Vor dem Hintergrund der veränderten Rahmenbedingungen untersucht der Beitrag, in welchem Maße (a) der Marktwert einer Mannschaft, (b) ihre interne Ungleichheit, (c) die kulturelle Diversität eines Teams sowie (d) der Grad der Fluktuation im Team über den sportlichen Erfolg in nationalen ...
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Zeitschrift für Soziologie
43 (2014), 3, S. 231-250
| Jürgen Gerhards, Michael Mutz, Gert G. Wagner
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There are strong two-way links between parent and child happiness (life satisfaction), even for ‘children’ who have grown up, moved to their own home and partnered themselves. German panel evidence shows that transmission of (un)happiness from parents to children is partly due to transmission of values and behaviors known to be associated with happiness (Headey et al. in Proc Natl Acad Sci 107(42):17922–17926, ...
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Social Indicators Research
116 (2014), 3, S. 909-933
| Bruce Headey, Ruud Muffels, Gert G. Wagner
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This paper studies the relationships between annual and subannual inequality and mobility during the course of the year. We apply an exact decomposition framework as outlined in Wodon and Yitzhaki (Econ Bull 4:1–8, 2003), and in Yitzhaki and Wodon (Research on Economic Inequality 12:179–199, 2004). Earnings records of pension insurants in Germany serve as the database. The long time horizon of our ...
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Journal of Economic Inequality
12 (2014), Iss. 3, S. 393-409
| Carsten Schröder, Yolanda Golan, Shlomo Yitzhaki