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710: The Timing of Employment Breaks: How Does It Affect Pension Benefits?; Empirical Evidence from Germany

Niklas Potrafke

709: Economic Gains from Publicly Provided Education in Germany

Joachim Frick, Markus Grabka and Olaf Groh-Samberg

708: First Evidence of Asymmetric Cost Pass-through of EU Emissions Allowances: Examining Wholesale Electricity Prices in Germany

Georg Zachmann and Christian Hirschhausen

707: The Role(s) of Intellectual Property Rights for Innovation: A Review of the Empirical Evidence and Implications for Developing Countries

Andréanne Léger

706: Entrepreneurs' Gender and Financial Constraints: Evidence from International Data

Alexander Muravyev, Dorothea Schäfer and Oleksandr Talavera

705: Risky Earnings, Taxation and Entrepreneurial Choice: A Microeconometric Model for Germany

Frank Fossen

704: The Effects of the Bank-Internal Ratings on the Loan Maturity

Nataliya Fedorenko, Dorothea Schäfer and Oleksandr Talavera

703: Dynamic Modelling of the Demand for Money in Latvia

Boriss Siliverstovs

702: Corporate Governance and Dividend Policy in Poland

Oskar Kowalewski, Ivan Stetsyuk and Oleksandr Talavera

701: Venture Capital versus Bank Financing in Innovative German Firms

Dorothea Schäfer, Oleksandr Talavera and Volker Zimmermann

700: New Directions in the Analysis of Inequality and Poverty

Stephen Jenkins and John Micklewright

699: Using the P90/P10 Index to Measure US Inequality Trends with Current Population Survey Data: A View from Inside the Census Bureau Vaults

Richard Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng and Stephen Jenkins

698: Ubiquitous Social Networks: Opportunities and Challenges for Privacy-Aware User Modelling

Sören Preibusch, Bettina Hoser, Seda Gürses and Bettina Berendt

697: Keeping up with the Schmidts: An Empirical Test of Relative Deprivation Theory in the Neighbourhood Context

Gundi Knies, Simon Burgess and Carol Propper

696: Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation around the World: Evidence from Panel Data

Andréanne Léger

695: Why Are Mothers Working Longer Hours in Austria than in Germany?: A Comparative Micro Simulation Analysis

Helene Dearing, Helmut Hofer, Christine Lietz, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer and Katharina Wrohlich

694: Using Household Panel Data to Understand the Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty

Stephen Jenkins and Thomas Siedler

693: The Intergeneratinal Transmission of Poverty in Industrialized Countries

Stephen Jenkins and Thomas Siedler

692: Learning-by-Doing in the Renewable Energy Equipment Industry or in Renewable Electricity Production: Why Does It Matter to Differentiate?

Katja Schumacher and Michael Kohlhaas

691: The Role of Remittances in Migration Decision: Evidence from Turkish Migration

Sule Akkoyunlu and Boriss Siliverstovs

690: Gerechtigkeitsprobleme im Wohlfahrtsstaat: Besteuerung, wohlfahrtsstaatliche Transfers und die Gerechtigkeit des eigenen Erwerbseinkommens

Stefan Liebig and Jürgen Schupp

689: Health Insurance Status and Physician-Induced Demand for Medical Services in Germany: New Evidence from Combined District and Individual Level Data

Hendrik Jürges

688: Self-Perceived Job Insecurity and Social Context: Are There Different European Cultures of Anxiety?

Marcel Erlinghagen

687: Die Dauer vorschulischer Betreuungs- und Bildungserfahrungen: Ergebnisse auf der Basis von Paneldaten

Charlotte Büchner and Katharina Spiess

686: The Impact of Child and Maternal Health Indicators on Female Labor Force Participation after Childbirth: Evidence for Germany

Annalena Dunkelberg and Katharina Spiess

685: And Then There Were Four...: How Many (and Which) Measures of Active Labor Market Policy Do We Still Need?; Finding a Balance after the Evaluation of the Hartz Reforms in Germany

Werner Eichhorst and Klaus Zimmermann

684: Is Entrepreneurial Success Predictable?: An Ex-ante Analysis of the Character-Based Approach

Marco Caliendo and Alexander Kritikos

683: From Bottom to Top: The Entire Distribution of Market Income in Germany, 1992 - 2001

Stefan Bach, Giacomo Corneo and Viktor Steiner

682: Short-Run and Long-Term Effects of Childbirth on Mothers' Employment and Working Hours across Institutional Regimes: An Empirical Analysis Based on the European Community Household Panel

Johannes Geyer and Viktor Steiner

681: Firm Size, Wages and Unobserved Skills: Evidence from Dual Job Holdings in the UK

Alexander Muravyev

680: Dual Class Stock in Russia: What Explains the Price Differential between Common and Preferred Shares?

Alexander Muravyev

679: Outward FDI and Domestic Investment

Dierk Herzer and Mechthild Schrooten

678: Benefit-Entitlement Effects and the Duration of Unemployment: An Ex-ante Evaluation of Recent Labour Market Reforms in Germany

Hendrik Schmitz and Viktor Steiner

677: Social Security in Germany: A Prey of Political Opportunism?

Niklas Potrafke

676: Social Expenditures as a Political Cue Ball?: OECD Countries under Examination

Niklas Potrafke

675: Money Demand in Estonia

Boriss Siliverstovs

674: Does the Dispersion of Unit Labor Cost Dynamics in the EMU Imply Long-Run Divergence?: Results from a Comparison with the United States of America and Germany

Sebastian Dullien and Ulrich Fritsche

673: Individual Well-Being in a Dynamic Perspective

Conchita D'Ambrosio and Joachim Frick

672: Representative Wealth Data for Germany from the German SOEP: The Impact of Methodological Decisions around Imputation and the Choice of the Aggregation Unit

Joachim Frick, Markus Grabka and Eva Sierminska

671: Turning Unemployment into Self-Employment: Effectiveness and Efficiency of Two Start-Up Programmes

Hans Baumgartner and Marco Caliendo

670: The Impact of Income Taxation on the Ratio between Reservation and Market Wages and the Incentives for Labour Supply

Marco Caliendo, Ludovica Gambaro and Peter Haan

669: Intertemporal Labor Supply Effects of Tax Reforms

Peter Haan

668: GTAP-E: An Energy-Environmental Version of the GTAP Model with Emission Trading

Truong Truong, Claudia Kemfert and Jean-Marc Burniaux

667: Unit Labor Cost Growth Differentials in the Euro Area, Germany, and the US: Lessons from PANIC and Cluster Analysis

Ulrich Fritsche and Vladimir Kuzin

666: Does Parental Unemployment Cause Right-Wing Extremism?

Thomas Siedler

665: Schooling and Citizenship: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reforms

Thomas Siedler

664: A Dynamic Panel Data Approach to the Forecasting of the GDP of German Länder

Konstantin Kholodilin, Boriss Siliverstovs and Stefan Kooths

663: GEE Estimation of a Two-Equation Panel Data Model: An Analysis of Wage Dynamics and the Incidence of Profit-Sharing in West Germany

Markus Pannenberg and Martin Spieß

662: 'Marginal Employment' and the Demand for Heterogenous Labour: Empirical Evidence from a Multi-factor Labour Demand Model for Germany

Ronny Freier and Viktor Steiner

661: Self-Employment - a Way to End Unemployment?: Empirical Evidence from German Pseudo-Panel Data

Daniela Glocker and Viktor Steiner

660: The Store-of-Value-Function of Money as a Component of Household Risk Management

Ingrid Größl and Ulrich Fritsche

659: mhbounds - Sensitivity Analysis for Average Treatment Effects

Sascha Becker and Marco Caliendo

658: Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity

Holger Bonin, Amelie Constant, Konstantinos Tatsiramos and Klaus Zimmermann

657: Ethnic Self-Identification of First-Generation Immigrants

Laura Zimmermann, Klaus Zimmermann and Amelie Constant

656: The Russian-Ukrainian Political Divide

Amelie Constant, Martin Kahanec and Klaus Zimmermann

655: Cognitive Abilities and Labour Market Outcomes

Silke Anger and Guido Heineck

654: Biases in Estimates of the Smoking Wage Penalty

Silke Anger and Michael Kvasnicka

653: Political Effects on the Allocation of Public Expenditures: Empirical Evidence from OECD Countries

Niklas Potrafke

652: Parties Matter in Allocating Expenditures: Evidence from Germany

Niklas Potrafke

651: A Cartel Analysis of the German Labor Institutions and Its Implications for Labor Market Reforms

Justus Haucap, Uwe Pauly and Christian Wey

650: Is the Regional Perspective Useful?: Rural and Urban Quality of Life; an Assessment

Annette Spellerberg, Denis Huschka and Roland Habich

649: The Effect of Economic Reforms of 1980s and of the Customs Union 1996 upon the Turkish Intra-Industry Trade

Sule Akkoyunlu, Konstantin Kholodilin and Boriss Siliverstovs

648: From No Pay to Low Pay and Back Again?: A Multi-State Model of Low Pay Dynamics

Arne Uhlendorff

647: What Drives Personal Consumption?: The Role of Housing and Financial Wealth

Jiri Slacalek

646: Welfare Effects of the Euro Cash Changeover

Christoph Wunder, Johannes Schwarze, Gerhard Krug and Bodo Herzog

645: Are Airlines' Price-Setting Strategies Different?

Volodymyr Bilotkach, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Oleksandr Talavera and Igor Zubenko

644: Development under Regulation: The Way of the Ukrainian Insurance Market

Oleg Badunenko, Bogdana Grechanyuk and Oleksandr Talavera

643: Gender, Ethnic Identity and Work

Amelie Constant, Liliya Gataullina and Klaus Zimmermann

642: Building Social Networks

Robert P. Gilles and Sudipta Sarangi

641: Making Work Pay for the Elderly Unemployed: Evaluating Alternative Policy Reforms for Germany

Peter Haan and Viktor Steiner

640: On Estimating an Asset's Implicit Beta

Sven Husmann and Andreas Stephan

639: Life Goals Matter to Happiness: A Revision of Set-Point Theory

Bruce Headey

638: The Effects of Industry-Level Uncertainty on Cash Holdings: The Case of Germany

Christopher Baum, Dorothea Schäfer and Oleksandr Talavera

637: Macroeconomic Uncertainty and Bank Lending: The Case of Ukraine

Oleksandr Talavera, Andriy Tsapin and Oleksandr Zholud

636: Small-Scale Business Survival and Inheritance: Evidence from Germany

Dorothea Schäfer and Oleksandr Talavera

635: The Effects of Short-Term Liabilities on Profitability: The Case of Germany

Christopher Baum, Dorothea Schäfer and Oleksandr Talavera

634: Firm Investment and Financial Frictions

Christopher Baum, Mustafa Caglayan and Oleksandr Talavera

633: Uncertainty Determinants of Corporate Liquidity

Christopher Baum, Mustafa Caglayan, Andreas Stephan and Oleksandr Talavera

632: Can the German Electricity Market Benefit from the EU Enlargement?: Results of Scenario Calculations Using the EMELIE Model

Manfred Horn, Claudia Kemfert and Vitaliy Kalashnikov

631: European Regional Convergence in a Human Capital Augmented Solow Model

Hans-Friedrich Eckey, Christian Dreger and Matthias Türck

630: The Parental Leave Benefit Reform in Germany: Costs and Labour Market Outcomes of Moving towards the Scandinavian Model

Katharina Spiess and Katharina Wrohlich

629: Human Capital Externalities: Evidence from the Transition Economy of Russia

Alexander Muravyev

628: Clash of Cultures: Muslims and Christians in the Ethnosizing Process

Amelie Constant, Liliya Gataullina, Klaus Zimmermann and Laura Zimmermann

627: The Russian-Ukrainian Earnings Divide

Amelie Constant, Martin Kahanec and Klaus Zimmermann

626: Political Instability and the August 1998 Ruble Crisis

Tatiana Fic and Omar Saqib

625: Tax and Benefit Reforms in a Model of Labour Market Transitions

Michal Myck and Howard Reed

624: What Drives Heterogeneity in Foreign Exchange Rate Expectations: Deep Insights from a New Survey

Christian Dreger and Georg Stadtmann

623: Marriage Matters: Spousal Similarity in Life Satisfaction

Ulrich Schimmack and Richard Lucas

622: What Affects the Remittances of Turkish Workers: Turkish or German Output?

Sule Akkoyunlu and Konstantin Kholodilin

621: Benchmarking Efficiency of Telecommunication Industries in the US and Major European Countries: A Stochastic Possibility Frontiers Approach

Georg Erber

620: The Political Economy of Natural Disaster Insurance: Lessons from the Failure of a Proposed Compulsory Insurance Scheme in Germany

Reimund Schwarze and Gert Wagner

619: A Matter of Opinion: How Ecological and Neoclassical Environmental Economists Think about Sustainability and Economics

Lydia Illge and Reimund Schwarze

618: Die deutsche Energiepolitik braucht eine Trendwende: ein 10-Punkte-Plan für eine nachhaltige Energieversorgung

Claudia Kemfert

617: Unemployment Dynamics among Migrants and Natives

Arne Uhlendorff and Klaus Zimmermann

616: Human Capital and Ethnic Self-Identification of Migrants

Laura Zimmermann, Liliya Gataullina, Amelie Constant and Klaus Zimmermann

615: Sticky Information Phillips Curves: European Evidence

Jörg Döpke, Jonas Dovern, Ulrich Fritsche and Jiri Slacalek

614: Competitive Screening in Insurance Markets with Endogenous Labor Supply

Nick Netzer and Florian Scheuer

613: External Debt in Post-Conflict Countries

Patricia Alvarez-Plata and Tilman Brück

612: Introducing Family Tax Splitting in Germany: How Would It Affect the Income Distribution and Work Incentives

Viktor Steiner and Katharina Wrohlich

611: Mortality and Survivors' Consumption

Michael Grimm