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This study analyzes the relationship of individual risk attitudes and occupational sorting with respect to occupational earnings risk. By using the German Mikrozensus, a precise measure for earnings risk is computed as the occupation-wide standard deviation of wages. Following the procedure proposed by Bonin (2007), this earnings risk measure is used as dependent variable in cross-sectional and panel ...
Bochum, Dortmund, Duisburg, Essen:
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Department of Economics, Technische Universität Dortmund, Department of Economics and Social Sciences, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Department of Economics and Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI),
2010,
(Ruhr Economic Papers #187)
| Ingo E. Isphording
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Linguistic distance, i.e. the dissimilarity between languages, is an important factor influencing international economic transactions such as migration or international trade flows by imposing hurdles for second language acquisition and increasing transaction costs. To measure these costs, we suggest using a new measure of linguistic distance. The Levenshtein distance is an easily computed and transparent ...
In:
Review of International Economics
21 (2013), 2, 354-369
| Ingo E. Isphording, Sebastian Otten
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There are various degrees of similarity between the languages of different immigrants and the language of their destination country. This linguistic distance is an obstacle to the acquisition of a language, which leads to large differences in the attainments of the language skills necessary for economic and social integration in the destination country. This study aims at quantifying the influence ...
In:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
105 (2014), September 2014, 30-50
| Ingo E. Isphording, Sebastian Otten
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In numerous industrialized countries the demographic change erodes the financial basis of traditional pay-as-you-go pension systems. To compensate for decreasing statutory pensions, many governments incentivize private saving by means of subsidized retirement plans. In this context, Germany introduced the so-called Riester pension plans. To assess its effectiveness, this paper analyzes the effects ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2017,
(SOEPpapers 954)
| Dorothee Ihle
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Recently, the homeownership rate of immigrants in Germany has increased by more than 20 percentage points. To shed light on this sharp rise, this paper investigates the driving forces of the trend in the homeownership rate of immigrant households in Germany between 1996 to 2005 and 2001 to 2011 using a probit-based non-linear decomposition method. Empirical findings suggest that 50 % of the change ...
In:
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
239 (2019), 2, 155-201
| Dorothee Ihle, Andrea Siebert-Meyerhoff
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Cambridge:
European Tax-Benefit Model (EUROMOD),
2000,
(EUROMOD Working Papers No. EM 2/00)
| Herwig Immervoll
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Cambridge:
University of Cambridge,
2002,
(EUROMOD Working Paper No. EM2/02)
| Herwig Immervoll
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Cambridge:
University of Cambridge, Microsimulation Unit,
2004,
(EUROMOD Working Paper No. EM6/04)
| Herwig Immervoll
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Cambridge:
University of Cambridge, Microsimulation Unit,
2004,
(EUROMOD Working Paper No. EM3/04)
| Herwig Immervoll
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Colchester:
University of Essex, Microsimulation Unit,
2005,
(EUROMOD Working Paper No. EM9/05)
| Herwig Immervoll, et al.