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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

610: Childhood Family Structure and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence for Germany

Marco Francesconi, Stephen Jenkins and Thomas Siedler

609: Does Democracy Foster Trust?

Helmut Rainer and Thomas Siedler

608: O Brother, Where Art Thou?: The Effects of Having a Sibling on Geographic Mobility and Labor Market Outcomes

Helmut Rainer and Thomas Siedler

607: Happiness: Revising Set Point Theory and Dynamic Equilibrium Theory to Account for Long Term Change

Bruce Headey

606: Female Labor Market Transitions in Europe

Lutz C. Kaiser

605: Where Are the Industrial Technologies in Energy-Economy Models?: An Innovative CGE Approach for Steel Production in Germany

Katja Schumacher and Ronald Sands

604: Ecological Labelling in North-South Trade

Wilhelm Althammer and Susanne Dröge

603: Generationen- oder Parteienkonflikt?: Eine empirische Analyse der deutschen Hochschulausgaben

Ulrich Oberndorfer and Viktor Steiner

602: Motor Vehicle Use and Travel Behaviour in Germany: Determinants of Car Mileage

Dominika Kalinowska and Hartmut Kuhfeld

601: How Does EU Enlargement Affect Social Cohesion?

Wolfgang Keck and Peter Krause

600: Risk Attitudes of Nascent Entrepreneurs: New Evidence from an Experimentally-Validated Survey

Marco Caliendo, Frank Fossen and Alexander Kritikos

599: On the Role of Stock Market for Real Economic Activity

Boriss Siliverstovs and Manh Ha Duong

598: On Selection of Components for a Diffusion Index Model: It's not the Size, It's How You Use It

Boriss Siliverstovs and Konstantin Kholodilin

597: Russian Natural Gas Exports to Europe: Effects of Russian Gas Market Reforms and the Rising Market Power of Gazprom

Eirik Sagen and Marina Tsygankova

596: International Wealth Effects

Jiri Slacalek

595: Modelling Turkish Migration to Germany

Sule Akkoyunlu and Boriss Siliverstovs

594: Effects of Foreign Presence in a Transition Economy: Regional and Industry-Wide Investments and Firm-Level Exports in Ukrainian Manufacturing

Stefan Lutz, Oleksandr Talavera and Sang-Min Park

593: Changing from PAPI to CAPI: A Longitudinal Study of Mode-Effects Based on an Experimental Design

Jörg-Peter Schräpler, Jürgen Schupp and Gert Wagner

592: Ten Do It Better, Do They?: An Empirical Analysis of an Old Football Myth

Marco Caliendo and Dubravko Radic

591: Allocative Efficiency Measurement Revisited: Do We Really Need Input Prices?

Oleg Badunenko, Michael Fritsch and Andreas Stephan

590: Financial Constraints and Continental Business Groups: Evidence from German Konzerns

Dorothea Schäfer, Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Oleksandr Talavera

589: The Diverse Structures of Passenger Car Taxation in Europe and the EU Commissions Proposal for Reform

Uwe Kunert and Hartmut Kuhfeld

588: True Health vs. Response Styles: Exploring Cross-country Differences in Self-reported Health

Hendrik Jürges

587: The Impact of E-Procurement on the Number of Suppliers: Where to Move to?

Daniel Nepelski

586: The Data Quality Concept of Accuracy in the Context of Public Use Data Sets

Carsten Kuchler and Martin Spieß

585: The Svensson versus McCallum and Nelson Controversy Revisited in the BMW Framework

Peter Bofinger and Eric Mayer

584: Calculation of Multivariate Normal Probabilities by Simulation, with Applications to Maximum Simulated Likelihood Estimation

Lorenzo Cappellari and Stephen Jenkins

583: Zur Erklärung der Assimilation von Migranten an die Einwanderungsgesellschaft am Beispiel der Vergabe von Vornamen

Jürgen Gerhards and Silke Hans

582: Income Taxes and Entrepreneurial Choice: Empirical Evidence from Germany

Frank Fossen and Viktor Steiner

581: On the Stability of the German Beveridge Curve: A Spatial Econometric Perspective

Reinhold Kosfeld, Christian Dreger and Hans-Friedrich Eckey

580: Self-Selection and the Returns to Geographic Mobility: What Can Be Learned from the German Reunification "Experiment"

Anzelika Zaiceva

579: Entwicklung einer deutschen Kurzskala zur zweidimensionalen Messung von sozialer Erwünschtheit

Niels Winkler, Martin Kroh and Martin Spieß

578: Konzentration statt Verzettelung: die deutsche Arbeitsmarktpolitik am Scheideweg

Hilmar Schneider, Werner Eichhorst and Klaus Zimmermann

577: Die Messung der Greifkraft als objektives Gesundheitsmaß in sozialwissenschaftlichen Bevölkerungsumfragen: erhebungsmethodische und inhaltliche Befunde auf der Basis von SHARE und SOEP

Karsten Hank, Hendrik Jürges, Jürgen Schupp and Gert Wagner

576: Income Inequality in the 1990s: Comparing the United States, Great Britain and Germany

Richard Burkhauser and Ludmila Rovba

575: Sportpartizipation in Deutschland: ein demo-ökonomisches Modell

Christoph Breuer

574: Not for Lack of Trying: American Entrepreneurship in Black and White

Philipp Köllinger and Maria Minniti

573: Estimation of Multinomial Logit Models with Unobserved Heterogeneity Using Maximum Simulated Likelihood

Peter Haan and Arne Uhlendorff

572: Hysteresis and Persistence in the Course of Unemployment: The EU and US Experience

Christian Dreger and Hans-Eggert Reimers

571: The Dynamics of European Inflation Expectations

Jörg Döpke, Jonas Dovern, Ulrich Fritsche and Jiri Slacalek

570: Labor Supply and Child Care Choices in a Rationed Child Care Market

Katharina Wrohlich

569: Evaluating the German "Mini-Job" Reform Using a True Natural Experiment

Marco Caliendo and Katharina Wrohlich

568: New Networks, Competition and Regulation

Pio Baake and Ulrich Kamecke

567: Ethnosizing Immigrants

Amelie Constant, Liliya Gataullina and Klaus Zimmermann

566: Migration and Money - What Determines Remittances?: Evidence from Germany

Elke Holst and Mechthild Schrooten

565: Central versus Local Education Finance: A Political Economy Approach

Rainald Borck

564: On the Returns to Occupational Qualification in Terms of Subjective and Objective Variables: A GEE-type Approach to the Estimation of Two-Equation Panel Models

Martin Spieß

563: Does More Generous Student Aid Increase Enrolment Rates into Higher Education?: Evaluating the German Student Aid Reform of 2001

Hans Baumgartner and Viktor Steiner

562: Endogenous Acceleration of Technological Change

Philipp Köllinger and Christian Schade

561: Investigating M3 Money Demand in the Euro Area: New Evidence Based on Standard Models

Christian Dreger and Juergen Wolters

560: Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes

Holger Bonin, Amelie Constant, Konstantinos Tatsiramos and Klaus Zimmermann

559: A Modified Yardstick Competition Mechanism

Georg Meran and Christian Hirschhausen

558: Setting the Set Point: Initial Predictors of Life Satisfaction in Early Adulthood

Eileen Trzcinski and Elke Holst

557: Women in Managerial Positions in Europe: Focus on Germany

Elke Holst

556: Longer Life, Higher Welfare?

Michael Grimm and Kenneth Harttgen

555: Apply with Caution: Introducing UK-Style In-work Support in Germany

Peter Haan and Michal Myck

554: Using the Dynamic Bi-Factor Model with Markov Switching to Predict the Cyclical Turns in the Large European Economies

Konstantin Kholodilin

553: Efficiency Analysis of East European Electricity Distribution in Transition: Legacy of the Past?

Astrid Cullmann, Jürgen Apfelbeck and Christian Hirschhausen

552: Long-Term Contracts and Asset Specificity Revisited: An Empirical Analysis of Producer-Importer Relations in the Natural Gas Industry

Anne Neumann and Christian Hirschhausen

551: A Strategic Model of European Gas Supply (GASMOD)

Franziska Holz, Christian Hirschhausen and Claudia Kemfert

550: Social Segregation in Secondary Schools: How Does England Compare with Other Countries?

Stephen Jenkins, John Micklewright and Sylke Schnepf

549: Informed Capital in a Hostile Environment: The Case of Relational Investors in Germany

Dorothea Schäfer and Dirk Schilder

548: Eine panelökonometrische Überprüfung der ökonomischen Theorie der Kriminalität mit deutschen Bundesländerdaten

Hannes Spengler

547: Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants

Amelie Constant and Klaus Zimmermann

546: An Experimental Evaluation of Popular Well-Being Measures

Martin Kroh

545: Employment Fluctuations and Dynamics of the Aggregate Average Wage in Poland 1996 - 2003

Michal Myck, Leszek Morawski and Jerzy Mycielski

544: Economic Relations between Women and Their Partners: An East-West-German Comparison after Reunification

Heike Trappe and Annemette Sørensen

543: Ganztagsschulen und Erwerbsbeteiligung von Müttern: eine Mikrosimulationsstudie für Deutschland

Miriam Beblo, Charlotte Lauer and Katharina Wrohlich

542: Income Taxation and Household Size: Would French Family Splitting Make German Families Better Off ?

Alexandre Baclet, Fabien Dell and Katharina Wrohlich

541: Severance Pay and the Shadow of the Law: Evidence for West Germany

Laszlo Goerke and Markus Pannenberg

540: Regional Income Stratification in Unified Germany Using a Gini Decomposition Approach

Joachim Frick and Jan Goebel

539: Der Einfluss unbeobachteter Heterogenität auf kompensatorische Lohndifferentiale und den Wert eines statistischen Lebens: eine mikroökonometrische Parallelanalyse mit IABS und SOEP

Sandra Schaffner and Hannes Spengler

538: State Dependence and Female Labor Supply in Germany: The Extensive and the Intensive Margin

Peter Haan

537: Gender-Job Satisfaction Differences across Europe: An Indicator for Labor Market Modernization

Lutz C. Kaiser

536: 'Making Work Pay' in a Rationed Labour Market: The Mini-Job Reform in Germany

Olivier Bargain, Marco Caliendo, Peter Haan and Kristian Orsini

535: Working Time as an Investment?: The Effects of Unpaid Overtime on Wages, Promotions, and Layoffs

Silke Anger

534: Corrective Ad Valorem and Unit Taxes: A Welfare Comparison

Susanne Dröge and Philipp Schröder

533: The Environmental and Economic Effects of European Emissions Trading

Claudia Kemfert, Michael Kohlhaas, Truong Truong and Artem Protsenko

532: Top Incomes and Top Taxes in Germany

Stefan Bach, Giacomo Corneo and Viktor Steiner

531: Can Minimum Prices Assure the Quality of Professional Services?

Georg Meran and Reimund Schwarze

530: Impact Assessment of Emissions Stabilization Scenarios with and without Induced Technological Change

Claudia Kemfert and Truong Truong

529: A Flexible Global Warming Index for Use in an Integrated Approach to Climate Change Assessment

Truong Truong and Claudia Kemfert

528: Fiscal Competition and the Composition of Public Spending: Theory and Evidence

Rainald Borck, Marco Caliendo and Viktor Steiner

527: Einfluss der Einkommensposition auf die Gesundheit und Lebenserwartung

Thomas Lampert and Lars Kroll

526: Implementing Privacy Negotiations in E-Commerce

Sören Preibusch

525: Regional Disparities in the European Union: Convergence and Agglomeration

Kurt Geppert, Michael Happich and Andreas Stephan

524: How Strong Buyers Spur Upstream Innovation

Roman Inderst and Christian Wey

523: Hypermarket Competition and the Diffusion of Retail Checkout Barcode Scanning

Jonathan Beck, Michal Grajek and Christian Wey

522: On the Forecasting Properties of the Alternative Leading Indicators for the German GDP: Recent Evidence

Konstantin Kholodilin and Boriss Siliverstovs

521: The New Keynesian Model and the Long-Run Vertical Phillips Curve: Does It Hold for Germany?

Jan Gottschalk and Ulrich Fritsche

520: Cox-McFadden Partial and Marginal Likelihoods for the Proportional Hazard Model with Random Effects

Jan Ondrich

519: Modelling the Structural Change of Transition Countries

Ulrich Thiessen and Paul R. Gregory

518: Fiscal Federalism: Normative Criteria for Evaluations, Developments in Selected OECD Countries, and Empirical Evidence for Russia

Ulrich Thiessen

517: Is There a Role for Private Health Insurance in Developing Countries?

Denis Drechsler and Johannes Jütting

516: Taxation, Insurance and Precautionary Labor

Nick Netzer and Florian Scheuer

515: Aktive Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland: Bestandsaufnahme und Bewertung der mikroökonomischen Evaluationsergebnisse

Marco Caliendo and Viktor Steiner

514: Transitional Dynamics in a Growth Model with Distributive Politics

Chetan Ghate

513: Economic Growth of Agglomerations and Geographic Concentration of Industries: Evidence for Germany

Kurt Geppert, Martin Gornig and Axel Werwatz