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In this article, we compare the distribution of price changes between collusive and non-collusive periods for 11 major cartels. Based on the theoretical and empirical results from previous research, we discuss the four moments with respect to price changes (mean, variance, skewness and kurtosis). However, none of the above descriptive statistics can be considered as a robust test allowing a differentiation ...
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German Economic Review
13 (2012), 3, S. 245-256
| Korbinian von Blanckenburg, Alexander Geist, Konstantin A. Kholodilin
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We present new evidence concerning the evolution of adult height across Spanish regions for the 1950-1980 male and female birth cohorts, using the augmented sample of the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) for Spain. This augmented sample, available only for the year 2000, contains self-reported height data representative at the Autonomous Community level. The average heights of these two sets ...
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Economics and Human Biology
10 (2012), 3, S. 264-275
| Climent Quintana-Domeque, Carlos Bozzoli, Mariano Bosch
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This study used data from the German Socio-economic Panel to examine gender differences in the extent to which self-reported subjective well-being was associated with occupying a high-level managerial position in the labour market,compared with employment in non-leadership, non-high-level managerial positions, unemployment, and non-labour market participation. Our results indicated that a clear hierarchy ...
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Social Indicators Research
107 (2012), 3, S. 449-463
| Eileen Trzcinski, Elke Holst
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This paper investigates income convergence among Russian regions between 1998 and 2006. It makes two major contributions to the literature on regional convergence in Russia. First, it identifies spatial regimes using the exploratory spatial data analysis. Second, it examines the impact of spatial effects on the convergence process. Our results show that the overall speed of regional convergence in ...
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Eastern European Economics
50 (2012), 3, S. 5-26
| Konstantin A. Kholodilin, Aleksey Oshchepkov, Boriss Siliverstovs
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If trade unions provide only their members with insurance against income variations, as a private good, this insurance will provide a stronger incentive for more risk-averse employees to become union members. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and various direct measures of individual risk attitudes, we find robust evidence of a positive relationship between risk aversion and the ...
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The Scandinavian Journal of Economics
114 (2012), 2, S. 275-295
| Laszlo Goerke, Markus Pannenberg
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We conduct a cross-national econometric analysis of intra-family location and caregiving patterns. Using European data, we first assess, from an international perspective, the relationship between family structure and the geographic proximity between adult children and their parents. We then examine whether differences in family structure are related to the amount of informal care adult children provide ...
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Population and Development Review
38 (2012), 2, S. 337-351
| Helmut Rainer, Thomas Siedler
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This article studies repeat or circular migration between the host and home countries using panel data for Germany, distinguishing between factors generating single moves, circular migration, and absorption. Migrants are more likely to leave early after their first arrival in Germany, and when they have social and familial bonds in the home country, but less likely when they have a job in Germany and ...
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International Migration Review
46 (2012), 2, S. 362-388
| Amelie Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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This study explored reciprocal associations between paternal child-care involvement and relationship quality by following British couples from the birth of a child until he or she reached school age. It extends the literature by distinguishing between paternal engagement in absolute terms and relative to the mother and by considering relationship quality reports of mothers and fathers and family breakdown. ...
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Journal of Marriage and Family
74 (2012), 2, S. 281-296
| Pia S. Schober
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This paper analyzes naming behavior in Germany in the context of rapid social change. It begins with an overview of general developments in naming in Germany over the last one hundred years, based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), which supplies us with almost 45,000 datasets. The paper focuses on the periods of World War II and the Cold War since we conclude that general developments ...
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Names: A Journal of Onomastics
60 (2012), 2, S. 74-89
| Anja Bruhn, Denis Huschka, Gert G. Wagner
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The Anti-trafficking Protocol reflects the interests of the major countries. Due to the high costs of compliance, countries will strategically select those obligations that will satisfy the major countries most efficiently with lower costs of compliance. Among the three main obligations of the Protocol - prevention, protection and prosecution - we predict that ratification leads to the strongest effect ...
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European Journal of Political Economy
28 (2012), 2, S. 249-265
| Seo-Young Cho, Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati