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The gender wage gap is a persistent labor market phenomenon. Most research focuses on the determinants of these wage differences. We contribute to this literature by exploring a different research question: if wages of women are systematically lower than male wages, what are the distributional consequences (disposable income) and what are the labor market effects (labor supply) of the wage gap? We ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2015,
(SOEPpapers 753)
| Patricia Gallego-Granados, Johannes Geyer
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Madison/Wisconsin:
1988,
| Heinz P. Galler
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In:
Ronald Schettkat, Jochem Langkau ,
Economic Policy Proposals for Germany and Europe
Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
144-166
| Richard B. Freeman
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Theoretical work based on social identity theory predicts that population diversity undermines redistributive public policies. This article tests this proposition exploiting an exogenous shock in diversity due to Germany’s reunification. In contrast to previous work on ethno-linguistic or racial heterogeneity, we specifically analyze religious diversity, which is an increasingly relevant social cleavage ...
In:
Journal of Urban Economics
94 (2016), (July 2016), 1-12
| Ronny Freier, Benny Geys, Joshua Holm
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While the literature on trust has produced various conceptual models, there is also some confusion concerning different types of trust and their formation. In this article, three contested points are empirically clarified. First, are there really different forms of trust as much of the literature suggests? Second, if so, then how are these different types of trust related to each other? Third, what ...
In:
European Journal of Political Research
48 (2009), 6, 782-803
| Markus Freitag, Richard Traunmüller
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Cambridge and London:
The MIT Press,
2008,
| Bruno S. Frey
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In:
Swedish Economic Policy Review
11 (2004), 2, xx
| Bruno S. Frey, Matthias Benz
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In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improve environmental quality and thus individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach (LSA) representing a new non-market valuation technique. The LSA builds on the recent development of subjective well-being research in economics and ...
Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2009,
(IZA DP No. 4478)
| Bruno S. Frey, Simon Luechinger, Alois Stutzer
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In:
Journal of Economic Literature
40 (2002), 402-435
| Bruno S. Frey, Alois Stutzer
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Zurich:
University of Zurich, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics,
2004,
(IEW Working Paper No. 190)
| Bruno S. Frey, Alois Stutzer