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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
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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
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We present new evidence for the importance of taxation in households' investment decisions. A difference-in-difference analysis shows that a tax reform in Germany which revoked the tax exemption of life insurance returns triggered a significant increase in demand prior to the reform.
In:
Economics Letters
108 (2010), 2, 193-196
| Nicolas Sauter, Joachim Winter
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The paper investigates the effectiveness of the median voter as a decisive agent in the process of redistribution. According to the previous literature, it tests several assumptions finding interesting results: The positive relation between inequality and redistribution is confirmed, but the median voter theorem seems not to be the driving force of this mechanism. Even if some results support the median ...
Luxembourg:
Luxembourg Income Study (LIS),
2009,
(Luxembourg Income Study Working Paper No. 516)
| Francesco Scervini
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Walferdange (Luxemburg):
CEPS/INSTEAD,
1993,
(PACO Document No. 2)
| Gaston Schaber
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Colchester:
University of Essex,
1992,
(European Scientific Network on Household Panel Studies (ESF) Working Paper No. 29)
| Gaston Schaber, Günther Schmaus, Gert G. Wagner
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Walferdange (Luxemburg):
CEPS/INSTEAD,
1993,
(PACO Document No. 1)
| Gaston Schaber, Günther Schmaus, Gert G. Wagner
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Dissimilarities between partners in prominent domains of functioning are often thought to be a risk factor for compromised relationship quality and relationship dissolution. However, the nature, correlates, and consequences of developmental trajectories of within-couple dissimilarities in key quality-of-life indicators such as life satisfaction are not well understood. In the current study, we applied ...
In:
Psychology and Aging
31 (2016), 4, 327-39
| Hannah M. Schade, Gizem Hülür, Frank J. Infurna, Christiane A. Hoppmann, Denis Gerstorf
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This article adds an intergenerational perspective to the study of perceived ethnic discrimination. It proposes the conjecture that perceived discrimination tends to increase with parental education, particularly among those children of immigrants who have attained only mediocre levels of education themselves. I discuss that this conjecture may be developed as an argument that comes in two versions: ...
In:
European Sociological Review
35 (2019), 1, 65-80
| Merlin Schaeffer
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In:
Schmollers Jahrbuch (Proceedings of the 7th International Socio-Economic Panel User Conference (SOEP2006), ed. by Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Grabka, Markus M. and Kroh, Martin)
127 (2007), 1, 127-138
| Christin Schäfer, Christian Schmitt