External refereed essays

Introduction

Computation of Standard Values for Physical and Mental Health Scale Scores Using the SOEP Version of SF-12v2

The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP): Scope, Evolution and Enhancements

Determinants of Fertility: An Application of Machine Learning Techniques

Initial Predictors of Life Satisfaction in Early Adulthood

Budget Processes: Theory and Experimental Evidence

This paper studies budget processes, both theoretically and experimentally. We compare the outcomes of bottom-up and top-down budget processes. It is often presumed that a top-down budget process leads to a smaller overall budget than a bottom-up budget process. Ferejohn and Krehbiel [Ferejohn, J., Krehbiel, K., 1987. The budget process and the sizeof the budget, Amer. J. Polit. Sci. 31, 296-320] showed ...

Innovationen für ein klimafreundliches Stromsystem

Renewable Energy and Employment in Germany

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 ...

Patientenverfügungen in Deutschland: Bedingungen für ihre Verbreitung und Gründe der Ablehnung

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 ...

The Political Economy of Natural Disaster Insurance: Lessons from the Failure of a Proposed Compulsory Insurance Scheme in Germany

Wem viel gegeben worden ist, bei dem wird man auch viel suchen: ein sozialethischer Beitrag zum Thema Reichtum und Armut

What Makes an Entrepreneur and Does It Pay? Native Men, Turks, and Other Migrants in Germany

This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavours of immigrants' and natives in Germany, concentrating on Turks, Germany's largest immigrant group and one under-studied in the literature. Self-employed Turks in Germany represent about 70 per cent of all Turkish entrepreneurs in the European Union. We use data from the German Socio-economic Panel to study patterns of self-employment. First, we identify ...

The Economics of Migrant Ethnicity

Unternehmensstatistik: Belastung und Nutzen

Die amtliche Statistik - kein großer bürokratischer Belastungsfaktor: Ergebnisse einer Studie über die Belastung der Unternehmen in Deutschland durch die Erhebungen der Statistischen Ämter

Produktvielfalt und Produktivität der IKT-Produzenten: eine Analyse unter Nutzung verbundener amtlicher Unternehmensdaten

Composantes familiales des impots sur le revenu en Allemagne et en France: les différences pertinentes

Mehr Beschäftigung durch Subventionierung der Sozialbeiträge? Eine empirische Evaluation aktueller Reformvorschläge

What Shapes Attitudes toward Paying Taxes? Evidence from Multicultural European Countries

Objectives. Considerable evidence suggests that enforcement efforts cannot fully explain the high degree of tax compliance. To resolve this puzzle of tax compliance, several researchers have argued that citizens' attitudes toward paying taxes, defined as tax morale, helps to explain the high degree of tax compliance. However, most studies have treated tax morale as a black box, without discussing which ...

Road Pricing in Britain

This paper outlines recent developments regarding road pricing in Britain. Given the widespread view that the London congestion pricing scheme has been a success, it was generally expected that road pricing would be more widely applied in Britain, and successive reports, including an official study for the Department for Transport, have examined the issue at a national level. However, implementation ...