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Back on track? Savings puzzles in EU-accession countries

Schrooten, Mechthild; Stephan, Sabine - 2002

After the collapse in the early years of transition, saving rates in many EU-accession countries have recovered and remained stable during recent years. This may indicate that the transformation process has come to an end with regard to savings. Is saving behaviour in EU-accession countries now...

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Who are the chronic poor? Evidence on the extent and the composition of chronic poverty in Germany

Biewen, Martin - 2003

Based on a multiple spells approach, this paper studies the extent and the composition of chronic poverty in Germany. The results indicate that about one third of cross-sectional poverty in a given year is chronic. The characteristics that are most closely associated with long-term poverty are...

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Are People Inequality Averse, and Do They Prefer Redistribution by the State? Evidence from German Longitudinal Data on Life Satisfaction

Schwarze, Johannes; Härpfer, Marco - 2004

We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre- and post-government income distribution at the regional level, to estimate the degree of inequality aversion. Three different inequality measures are used. In addition, we investigate whether a reduction in inequality by the state...

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Child Care Costs and Mothers' Labor Supply: An Empirical Analysis for Germany

Wrohlich, Katharina - 2004

labor supply estimation. In contrast to a previous German study, I find significant effects of child care costs on mother …

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Money for Nothing and your Chips for Free? The Anatomy of the PC Wage Differential

Schmidt, Christoph M.; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 1999

random effects and fixed effects estimator were run in the wage estimation. We confirm the results that Entorf/Kramarz (1997 …

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Nobody to play with? The implications of leisure coordination

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Osberg, Lars - 2003

We hypothesize that an individual's time use choices are contingent on the time use choices of others because the utility derived from leisure time often benefits from the presence of companionable others inside and outside the household. We develop a model of time use, and demonstrate that its...

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Are Migrants More Skilled than Non-Migrants? Repeat, Return and Same-Employer

Hunt, Jennifer - 2004

-Economic Panel from 1984-2000. I highlight the prevalence and distinctive characteristics of migrants who do not change employers …. Same-employer migrants represent 25% of all migrants, and have higher education and pre-move wages than non-migrants …. Conditional on age, same-employer migrants are therefore more skilled than non-migrants. By contrast, although other migrants have …

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International Market Integration for Natural Gas? A Cointegration Analysis of Gas Prices in Europe, North America and Japan

Neumann, Anne; Siliverstovs, Boriss; L'Hégaret, Guillaume - 2003

We examine the degree of natural gas market integration in Europe, North America and Japan, between the mid 1990's and 2002. The relationship between the international gas marker prices, and their relation to the oil price, are investigated through principal component analysis and Johansen...

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Does Macroeconomic Policy Affect Private Savings in Europe? Evidence From a Dynamic Panel Data Model

Schrooten, Mechthild; Stephan, Sabine - 2004

Private savings mirror consumption behavior. In Europe, the dynamic of consumption is very low, and at the same time, savings are increasing. Is this a result of macroeconomic policy? A GMM estimator is used to analyze the determinants of private saving in the EU?s 15 member states. Our main...

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The relationship between pet ownership and health outcomes: German longitudinal evidence

Headey, Bruce; Grabka, Markus M. - 2004

Previous cross-sectional and intervention studies have suggested that pet owners may enjoy better physical and mental health than non-owners. This paper presents longitudinal evidence from a major national representative longitudinal survey: the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Because the...

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