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  • Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science

    Firm Size and Efficiency in the German Mechanical Engineering Industry

    Research usually finds a positive size-efficiency relationship, but few studies focus on sectors dominated by small and medium-sized firms (SMEs). This paper fills this gap by analyzing this relationship in the German mechanical engineering industry sector, which is both successful and increasingly dominated by SMEs. The analysis, using a large and representative dataset, finds that small and large ...

    In: Small Business Economics 40 (2013), 2, S. 335-350 | Alexander Schiersch
  • SOEPpapers 482 / 2012

    The Returns to Education for Opportunity Entrepreneurs, Necessity Entrepreneurs, and Paid Employees

    We assess the relevance of formal education for the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative employment options. We expect differences in the returns to education between these groups because of different levels of control. We use the German Socio-economic Panel ...

    2012| Frank M. Fossen, Tobias J. M. Büttner
  • SOEPpapers 471 / 2012

    Working Time Preferences, Hours Mismatch and Well-Being of Couples: Are There Spillovers?

    We analyze how well-being is related to working time preferences and hours mismatch. Selfreported measures of life satisfaction are used as an empirical approximation of true wellbeing. Our results indicate that well-being is generally lower among workers with working time mismatch. Particularly underemployment is detrimental for well-being. We further provide first evidence on spillovers from the ...

    2012| Christoph Wunder, Guido Heineck
  • SOEPpapers 476 / 2012

    Higher and Higher? Performance Pay and Wage Inequality in Germany

    Performance pay is of growing importance to the wage structure as it applies to a rising share of employees. At the same time wage dispersion is growing continuously. This leads to the question of how the growing use of performance pay schemes is related to the increase in wage inequality? German SOEP data for the years 1984 to 2009 confirm the large increase in the application of performance pay schemes. ...

    2012| Katrin Sommerfeld
  • SOEPpapers 461 / 2012

    A Satisfaction-Driven Poverty Indicator: A Bustle around the Poverty Line

    Poverty line definitions in use often lack a solid scientific foundation. This paper proposes to exploit data on income satisfaction to construct an evidence-based poverty line. The poverty line is identified by using its assumed unique property to explain income dissatisfaction best among all dichotomizations of income. To this end, several model settings are considered including linear and nonlinear ...

    2012| Andos Juhász
  • SOEPpapers 460 / 2012

    Factor Shares and Income Inequality: Empirical Evidence from Germany 2002-2008

    We examine the interplay between changes in the functional distribution of income and the distribution of market income among households. We use micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel as well as macro data from the German Federal Statistical Office from 2002 to 2008. We categorize and evaluate the implications of changes in the functional distribution of income upon the distribution of income ...

    2012| Martin Adler, Kai Daniel Schmid
  • Externe Monographien

    Beschäftigungswirkungen des Umweltschutzes in Deutschland im Jahr 2008: Forschungsprojekt im Auftrag des Umweltbundesamtes UFOPLAN-Vorhaben FKZ 3709 14 103

    Berlin: Umweltbundesamt, 2012, 81 S.
    (Texte / Umweltbundesamt ; 2012,01)
    | Dietmar Edler, Jürgen Blazejczak
  • Diskussionspapiere 1241 / 2012

    The Returns to Education for Opportunity Entrepreneurs, Necessity Entrepreneurs, and Paid Employees

    We assess the relevance of formal education for the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative employment options. We expect differences in the returns to education between these groups because of different levels of control. We use the German Socio-economic Panel ...

    2012| Frank M. Fossen, Tobias J. M. Büttner
  • SOEPpapers 464 / 2012

    The Evolution of Income Inequality in Germany and Switzerland since the Turn of the Millennium

    This paper presents and compares trends in income inequality in Switzerland and Germany from 2000 to 2009 using harmonized data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the Swiss Household Panel (SHP). Whereas in Germany inequality has increased substantially during this period, in Switzerland inequality in market incomes has increased onlymarginally and inequality in disposable incomes has decreased ...

    2012| Markus M. Grabka, Ursina Kuhn
  • DIW Wochenbericht 21 / 2012

    Befristete Beschäftigung hat keinen Einfluss auf die betriebliche Arbeitsproduktivität

    Die Befristung von Arbeitsverträgen hat in den letzten Jahren zunehmend an Bedeutung gewonnen. In der Folge wird auch intensiv über die positiven wie negativen Effekte dieser Beschäftigungsform diskutiert. Die Debatte beschränkt sich jedoch im Wesentlichen auf Arbeitsmarktaspekte und die Auswirkungen für die Betroffenen. Inwieweit eine intensivere Nutzung befristeter Arbeitsverträge die betriebliche ...

    2012| Sebastian Nielen, Alexander Schiersch
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