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The positive impacts of an increasing share of renewable energy on the mitigation of climate change as well as on the decrease of the dependency of energy imports are indisputable. However, one persistent problem for the German economy has been its high level of unemployment in the recent past. Therefore, any policy strategy will be measured also by its net impact on the labor market. The paper describes ...
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Energy Policy
36 (2008), 1, S. 108-117
| Ulrike Lehr, Joachim Nitsch, Marlene Kratzat, Christian Lutz, Dietmar Edler
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This study used a nationally representative sample of young people in Germany from the German Socio-Economic Panel to examine how demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the young persons and their parents, personality traits of the young persons, quality and quantity of relationships, the parent's level of life satisfaction, and other measures of satisfaction for the young person are related ...
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Social Indicators Research
87 (2008), 1, S. 83-109
| Eileen Trzcinski, Elke Holst
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Subjective well-being (SWB) has two components: affective well-being (AWB) and cognitive well-being (CWB). The present study demonstrated that AWB and CWB have are influenced by different factors in a nationally representative sample in Germany (N = 1053). Neuroticism was a stronger predictor of AWB than CWB. Unemployment and regional differences between the East and West of Germany were stronger predictors ...
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Social Indicators Research
89 (2008), 1, S. 41-60
| Ulrich Schimmack, Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner
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Using cointegration techniques, we find that in the US, outward FDI has positive long-run effects on domestic investment. In Germany, this complementary relationship exists only in the short run. In the long run, outward FDI substitutes for German domestic investment.
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Economics Letters
99 (2008), 1, S. 139-143
| Dierk Herzer, Mechthild Schrooten
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Der Beitrag analysiert den Zielkonflikt zwischen Leistungs- und Bedarfsgerechtigkeit in modernen Wohlfahrtsstaaten und das fundamentale Problem, weshalb die Abgabenund Steuerlast von den Bürgern akzeptiert wird. Es wird die Frage beantwortet, inwieweit ein auf der Makroebene der Gesellschaft bestehendes Steuerungsproblem moderner Wohlfahrtsstaaten auch in der individuellen Wahrnehmung Gerechtigkeitsprobleme ...
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Soziale Welt
59 (2008), 1, S. 7-30
| Stefan Liebig, Jürgen Schupp
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We analyze the effects of three different proposals to introduce a family tax-splitting system in Germany. The empirical analysis is based on a behavioral microsimulation model, which integrates an empirical household labor-supply model into a detailed tax-benefit model. Our results show that, under each reform, the lion's share of the reduction in taxes would accrue to families in the upper part of ...
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Finanzarchiv
64 (2008), 1, S. 115-142
| Viktor Steiner, Katharina Wrohlich
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We investigate the relevance of Carroll's sticky information model of inflation expectations for four major European economies (France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom). In contrast to the most rational expectation models, households in the sticky information environment update their expectations occasionally rather than instantaneously due to the costs of acquiring and processing information. ...
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The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics
8 (2008), 1, Article 12
| Jörg Döpke, Jonas Dovern, Ulrich Fritsche, Jiri Slacalek
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We examine voluntary private contributions to reduce the probability of a public loss in the experimental economics laboratory. In several treatments, we examine how loss probability, initial wealth and ambiguity affect the contribution level. We observe that, in contrast to the risk-neutral Nash equilibrium, participants do make positive contributions although the contribution level is lower than ...
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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
66 (2008), 3/4, S. 477-491
| Claudia Keser, Claude Montmarquette
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This article advocates for a new measure of the ethnic identity of migrants, models its determinants, and explores its explanatory power for economic performance. The ethnosizer, a measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, is constructed from information on the following elements: language, media, ethnic self-identification, ethnic networks, and residency plans. The two-dimensional concept ...
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Journal of the European Economic Association
6 (2008), 2-3, S. 424-433
| Amelie Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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Hintergrund: Bislang ist die Verbreitung von Patientenverfügungen in der prä-klinischen Bevölkerung (das heißt, bevor es zu einer Krankenhausaufnahme kommt) noch kaum bekannt, da sich Studien hierzu zumeist auf Patienten- bzw. Arztbefragungen beziehen. Somit ist unklar, welche prä-klinischen Bedingungen die Verbreitung von Patientenverfügungen begünstigen. Von Interesse sind insbesondere persönliche ...
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Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift
132 (2007), 48, S. 2558-2562
| Frieder R. Lang, Gert G. Wagner