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The subjective costs of health losses due to chronic diseases : an alternative model for monetary appraisal
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2001
- Germany. We find, for instance, that for West-workers hearing impediments are on average equivalent to an income reduction of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435018
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Der Einfluss von Persönlichkeitseigenschaften und sozialen Ressourcen auf die Arbeitslosigkeitsdauer
Uhlendorff, Arne - 2003
social resources on the individual length of unemployment in Germany are analysed with data from the German Socio … to new additional findings. In West-Germany mobile persons and actors with internal control find a job more easily while … in East-Germany social capital has a positive influence on the probability of reemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011438269
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Estimation of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson inequality indices from complex survey data
Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen - 2003 - This version: 11 April 2003
Applying a method suggested by Woodruff (1971), we derive the sampling variances of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson inequality indices when estimated from complex survey data. It turns out that this method also greatly simplifies the calculations for the i.i.d. case when compared to previous...
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The role of sickness in the evaluation of job search assistance and sanctions
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2016
Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However, the possibility to report sick creates an additional moral hazard, since during sickness spells, minimum requirements on search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex-ante...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414725
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The cross-section of output and inflation in a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with sticky prices
Döpke, Jörg; Funke, Michael; Holly, Sean; Weber, Sebastian - 2009
In a standard dynamic stochastic general equilibrium framework, with sticky prices, the cross sectional distribution of output and inflation across a population of firms is studied. The only form of heterogeneity is confined to the probability that the ith changes its prices in response to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003844356
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The effect of market power on electricity storage utilization : the case of pumped hydro storage in Germany
Schill, Wolf-Peter; Kemfert, Claudia - 2009
. -- Electricity market modeling ; pumped hydro storage ; strategic storage ; oligopoly ; market power ; Germany ; ElStorM …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003898588
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A switch from joint to individual taxation is welfare improving
Decoster, André; Haan, Peter - 2011
revenue neutral system of individual taxation in Germany. For the empirical welfare evaluation we estimate the preference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009579606
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Unobservable, but unimportant? : the influence of personality traits (and other usually unobserved variables) for the evaluation of labor market policies
Caliendo, Marco; Mahlstedt, Robert; Mitnik, Oscar A. - 2014
unemployment in Germany, as well as several usually unobserved characteristics like personality traits, attitudes, expectations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010400598
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Happiness: revising set point theory and dynamic equilibrium theory to account for long term change
Headey, Bruce (contributor) - 2006
An adequate theory of happiness or subjective well-being (SWB) needs to link at least three sets of variables: stable … satisfaction. Using these data, the paper suggests a major revision to the set point or dynamic equilibrium theory of SWB in order … and Tellegen, 1996). Previously, theory focused on evidence that individuals have their own equilibrium level or set point …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003346302
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Severance pay and the shadow of the law : evidence for west Germany
Goerke, Laszlo (contributor); Pannenberg, Markus (contributor) - 2005
Due to the complexity of employment protection legislation (EPL) in Germany, there is notable uncertainty about the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003230706