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  • Who invests in training if contracts are temporary? Empirical evidence for Germany using selection correction

    This study deals with the effect of fixed-term contracts on work-related training. Though previous studies found a negative effect of fixed-term contracts on the participation in training, from the theoretical point of view it is not clear whether workers with fixed-term contracts receive less or more training, compared to workers with permanent contracts. In addition to the existing strand of literature, ...

    Halle: Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH), 2006,
    (IWH-Discussion Papers No. 14)     | Jan Sauermann

  • Beware the Mean!

    In: SPRC Newsletter SPRC Newsletter | Peter Saunders, Timothy M. Smeeding

  • Bequest Motives and the Demand for Life Insurance in East Germany

    Empirical studies of household saving remain inconclusive about the role of bequest motives. This may be due to the diluting effect of different tax regimes across countries and time on estimates of bequest motives. Relative to market-based economies, the former German Democratic Republic can be viewed as an experimental institutional setting where life-insurance demand was not influenced by tax considerations. ...

    In: German Economic Review 15 (2012), 2, 272-286 | Nicolas Sauter

  • Social networks as a catalyst of economic change

    This letter finds that East Germans with strong social ties invested earlier in a popular new financial product after reunification, while long-term ownership remained unaffected. Hence, studies of the economic impact of social networks should distinguish transitory from long-run effects.

    In: Economics Letters 134 (2015), September 2015, 45-48 | Nicolas Sauter

  • Tax incentives, bequest motives and the demand for life insurance: evidence from a natural experiment in Germany

    This paper studies the role of taxation and bequest motives in households’ demand for life insurance. We develop a stylized three-period life cycle model of life insurance demand and test its predictions regarding tax changes and bequests motives. An unexpected halving of the tax exemption limit for interest and dividend income in Germany allows us to identify the impact of changes in taxation on the ...

    In: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance 14 (2015), 4, 525-553 | Nicolas Sauter, Jan Walliser, Joachim Winter

  • On the Non-Stationarity of German Income Mobility (and Some Observations on Poverty Dynamics)

    Florence: European University Institute, 1996,
    (EUI Working Papers, ECO No. 96/35)     | Christian Schluter

  • On Income Mobility in Germany

    In: Proceedings of the 1996 Second International Conference of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study Users. Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 66 (1997), 1, 80-86 | Christian Schluter

  • Income Mobility in Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom

    In: Proceedings of the 1998 Third International Conference of the GSOEP Study Users. Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 68 (1999), 2, 270-274 | Christian Schluter

  • Child poverty in Germany: trends and persistence (chapt. 6)

    In: Bruce Bradbury, Stephen P. Jenkins, John Micklewright , The Dynamics of Child Poverty in Industrialised Countries
    Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
    154-173     | Christian Schluter

  • Local versus Global Assessment of Mobility

    In: International Economic Review 44 (2003), 4, 1313-1355 | Christian Schluter, Mark Trede
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