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We provide first evidence on the relationship between cognitive abilities and earnings in Germany using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) Study. The estimates suggest that mechanics abilities are positively related to wages of West German workers, even when educational attainment is controlled for. Pragmatics of cognition are not related to earnings. In line with studies for other countries, ...
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Applied Economics Letters
17 (2010), 7, S. 699-702
| Silke Anger, Guido Heineck
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The greenhouse gas mitigation potential of different economic sectors in three world regions are estimated using a bottom-up approach. These estimates provide updates of the numbers reported in the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR4). This study is part of a larger project aimed at comparing greenhouse gas mitigation potentials from bottom-up and top-down ...
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Energy Policy
38 (2010), 6, S. 3044-3057
| Monique Hoogwijk, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Aleksandra Novikova, Diana Urge-Vorsatz, Eliane Blomen, Kornelis Blok
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This paper examines the deployment of microgeneration in Germany and the UK from a technological innovation systems (TIS) perspective. Based on the TIS functions approach, we condense supportive and obstructive factors and discuss the differences in the respective national setting for small-scale renewable and combined heat and power (CHP) technologies. The findings underline the relevance of legitimation ...
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Technology Analysis & Strategic Management
22 (2010), 6, S. 745-764
| Barbara Praetorius, Mari Martiskainen, Raphael Sauter, Jim Watson
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Der Übergang von der Grundschule in die mehrgliedrige Sekundarstufe ist in Deutschland entscheidend für den weiteren Bildungsverlauf, da spätere Wechsel der Schulform zwar möglich sind, aber nur relativ selten stattfinden. In diesem Papier betrachten wir den Einfluss der Akzeptanz der Schullaufbahnempfehlungen am Ende der Grundschulzeit auf den Bildungsverlauf bis zum Alter von 17 Jahren. Die Datengrundlage ...
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Zeitschrift für Soziologie
39 (2010), 6, S. 470-492
| Henning Lohmann, Olaf Groh-Samberg
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Empirical studies on the earnings effects of tobacco use have found significant wage penalties attached to smoking. This article produces evidence that suggests that these estimates are significantly upward biased. The bias arises from a general failure in the literature to control for past smoking behaviour of individuals. Two-Stage Least Squares (2SLS) regressions show that the smoking wage penalty ...
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Applied Economics Letters
17 (2010), 6, S. 561-564
| Silke Anger, Michael Kvasnicka
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Competition is claimed to be beneficial in development projects promoting micro and small enterprise finance although there are still doubts as to whether these loans can be developed into a profitable business. Our research sheds new light on the question of how many MSE banking units should optimally be created and supported in a certain region. We employ a unique data set from the European Bank ...
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Applied Economics
42 (2010), 6, S.701-716
| Dorothea Schäfer, Boriss Siliverstovs, Eva Terberger
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The paper presents a meta dataset covering 13 experiments on social learning games. It is found that in situations where it is empirically optimal to follow others and contradict one's own information, the players err in the majority of cases, forgoing substantial parts of earnings. The average player contradicts her own signal only if the empirical odds ratio of the own signal being wrong, conditional ...
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The American Economic Review
100 (2010), 5, S. 2340-2360
| Georg Weizsäcker
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Given the recent efforts in several countries to reorganize the research institutional setting to improve research productivity, our analysis addresses the following questions: To which extent has the recent awareness over international quality standards in economics around the world been reflected in research performance? How have individual countries fared? Do research quantity and quality indicators ...
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Kyklos
63 (2010), 4, S. 479-494
| Ana Rute Cardoso, Paulo Guimarães, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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Der vorliegende Beitrag beschäftigt sich vor dem Hintergrund spezifischer Rekrutierungsmuster im Berufsfeld Wissenschaft mit der sozialstrukturellen Zusammensetzung der Professorenschaft im Fach Soziologie. Grundlage ist eine Gesamterhebung der Professorinnen und Professoren an universitären soziologischen Fachinstituten und ausgewählten außeruniversitären wissenschaftlichen Einrichtungen. Untersuchte ...
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Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
62 (2010), 4, S. 751-766
| Steffen Mau, Denis Huschka
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This article explores the relationship between kinship institutions and sex ratios in India at the turn of the twentieth century. Because kinship rules vary by caste, language, religion, and region, we construct sex ratios by these categories at the district level by using data from the 1901 Census of India for Punjab (North), Bengal (East), and Madras (South). We find that the male-to-female sex ratio ...
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Demography
47 (2010), 4, S. 989-1012
| Tanika Chakraborty, Sukkoo Kim