Efficiency wage models argue that by increasing workers' utility, firms can enhance their productivity. Providing better working conditions instead of higher wages may be an alternative. In a world of perfect competition for every good, there is a market for non-material job amenities in which workers "willingness to pay" for these goods implies workers accept certain wage differentials. As a...
Luke Haywood, Jean-Marc Robin
Oslo, Norwegen,
25.08.2011
- 29.08.2011| 26th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association: EEA 2011
In this paper, we focus on network- and gender-specific determinants of remittances, which are often explained theoretically by way of intra-family contracts. We develop a basic formal concept that includes aspects of the transnational network and derive hypotheses from it. For our empirical investigation, we use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the years 2001-2006. Our...
Elke Holst, Andrea Schäfer, Mechthild Schrooten
Oslo, Norwegen,
25.08.2011
- 29.08.2011| 26th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association: EEA 2011
This is the first study investigating the causal effect of maternal education on child¿s health and schooling outcomes in Germany. We apply an instrumental variables approach that has not yet been used in the intergenerational context. For that purpose, we draw on a rich German panel data set (SOEP) containing information about three generations. This allows instrumenting maternal education by the...
Daniel Kemptner, Jan Marcus
Oslo, Norwegen,
25.08.2011
- 29.08.2011| 26th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association: EEA 2011
This paper empirically investigates distributional and welfare effects of Germany's year 2000 income tax reform. The reform is simulated in an ex-ante behavioral microsimulation approach. Dead weight loss of changes in capital income taxation is estimated in a structural model for household savings and asset demand applied to German survey data. Significant reductions in tax rates result in income...
Richard Ochmann
Oslo, Norwegen,
25.08.2011
- 29.08.2011| 26th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association: EEA 2011
Studies of peer-to-peer lending in the USA find that female borrowers have better chances of getting funds than males. Is differential treatment of borrowers of different sexes a common feature of peer-to-peer lendingmarkets or is it subject to specific businessmodels, ways of fixing loan contracts and even national financial systems? We aim at answering this question by providing evidence on loan...
Dorothea Schäfer, Nataliya Barasinska
Oslo, Norwegen,
25.08.2011
- 29.08.2011| 26th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association: EEA 2011
Markus M. Grabka, Joachim R. Frick
Ingelheim,
22.08.2011
- 23.08.2011| Einkommens- und Vermögensverteilung: 9. zentrale Fortbildung des Multiplikatorennetzes Ökonomische Bildung Hessen
The study analyses the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions in Germany based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the years 2001-2008. It focuses in particular on gender segregation in the labor market, that is, on the unequal distribution of women and men across different occupations and on the effects of this inequality on earnings levels and gender wage...
Anne Busch, Elke Holst
Las Vegas, USA,
20.08.2011
- 23.08.2011| Social Conflict: Multiple Dimensions and Arenas: 106th ASA Annual Meeting
Boris Heizmann, Anne Busch, Elke Holst
Las Vegas, USA,
20.08.2011
- 23.08.2011| Social Conflict: Multiple Dimensions and Arenas: 106th ASA Annual Meeting
Although spiteful preferences play a crucial role in the development of human large-scale cooperation, there is little evidence on spiteful behavior and its determinants in children. We investigate the relationship between children¿s cognitive skills and spiteful behavior in a sample of 214 preschoolers aged 5-6 and their mothers. Other-regarding behavior of both mothers and children is elicited...
Elisabeth Bügelmayer, C. Katharina Spieß
Tilburg, Niederlande,
19.08.2011
| 10th Tiber Symposium on Psychology and Economics
Marco Giesselmann
Manchester, Großbritannien,
04.08.2011
- 05.08.2011| A European Workshop to Introduce the EU Survey of Income and Living Conditions and the EU Labour Force Survey Data