find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation … ; happiness ; comparisons ; panel, households, marriage …

Living arrangements have undergone considerable change in recent decades. In most Western countries marriage is no …:3 percent of the women born between 1954 and 1958 started their first union outside of a formal marriage. The figure increases …

We investigate the impact of consumer search and competition on pricing strategies in Germany’s electricity retail. We … utilize a unique panel dataset on spatially varying search requests at major online price comparison websites to construct a … direct measure of search intensity and combine this information with zip code level data on electricity tariffs between 2011 …

We study how consumer search affects pricing in markets with incumbents and entrants using panel data on German … electricity retail markets. Consumers observe the baseline price of the incumbent and decide whether or not to search. Incumbent … baseline rate while entrants decrease their tariffs if consumer search increases. Moreover, the incumbent price discriminates …

This paper considers training, mobility decisions and wages together to test for the specificity of human capital … contained in continuing training courses. We empirically analyse the relationship between training, mobility and wages in two … ways. First, we examine the correlation between training and mobility. In a second step, we consider wage effects of …

search leads to additional formal job interviews after a few months in unemployment. …

known about how the direction of search strategies influences innovation performance. In this paper, we argue that firms … need to specialize their search strategy and that its effectiveness is moderated by R&D investments and potential knowledge … hand, in-house R&D investments are most effective when combined with a market-oriented search strategy. On the other hand …

breadth and depth of search strategies for external knowledge help young firms to enter international markets. Once they have … ones. -- New ventures ; internationalization ; innovation ; search strategies ; entrepreneurship …