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310: Endogenous Distribution, Politics and Growth

Satya Das and Chetan Ghate

309: Outsourcing and Firm-level Performance

Bernd Görzig and Andreas Stephan

308: Optimal Fiscal Policy in an Economy Facing Socio-Political Instability

Chetan Ghate, Quan Vu Le and Paul J. Zak

307: Corporate Donations to the Arts: Philanthropy or Advertising?

Björn Frank and Kurt Geppert

306: Back on Track?: Savings Puzzles in EU-Accession Countries

Mechthild Schrooten and Sabine Stephan

305: European Mothers' Time with Children: Differences and Similarities across Nine Countries

Jutta M. Joesch and Katharina Spiess

304: An Investigation into the 1999 Collapse of the Brazilian Real

Omar Saqib

303: Interpreting Currency Crises: A Review of Theory, Evidence, and Issues

Omar Saqib

302: The Dead-Anyway Effect Revis(it)ed

Friedrich Breyer and Stefan Felder

301: Does the Behaviour of Myopic Addicts Support the Rational Addiction model?: A Simulation

Björn Frank

300: A Schumpeter-Inspired Approach to the Construction of R&D Capital Stocks

Jürgen Bitzer and Andreas Stephan

299: Respondent Behavior in Panel Studies: A Case Study for Income-Nonresponse by Means of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP)

Jörg-Peter Schräpler

298: Strategic Path Reliability in Information Networks

Rajgopal Kannan, Sudipta Sarangi and S. S. Iyengar

297: Stricter Enforcement May Increase Tax Evasion

Rainald Borck

296: Bug-Fixing and Code-Writing: The Private Provision of Open Source Software

Jürgen Bitzer and Philipp Schröder

295: Managerial Incentives, Innovation and Product Market Competition

Zhentang Zhang

294: Endogenous Costs and Price-Cost Margins

Damien Neven, Lars-Hendrik Röller and Zhentang Zhang

293: Long-Term Effects of Unpaid Overtime

Markus Pannenberg

292: The Covariance Structure of East and West German Incomes and its Implications for the Persistence of Poverty and Inequality

Martin Biewen

291: Alternative Measures of the Explanatory Power of Multivariate Probit Models with Continuous or Ordinal Responses

Martin Spieß and Gerhard Tutz

290: A Multilevel Analysis of Child Care and the Transition to Motherhood in Western Germany

Karsten Hank and Michaela Kreyenfeld

289: The Effect of Maternity Leave on Women's Pay in Germany 1984-1994

Jan Ondrich, Katharina Spiess and Qing Yang

288: Modelling Low Income Transitions

Lorenzo Cappellari and Stephen Jenkins

287: How to Finance Eastern Enlargement of the EU

Christian Weise

286: German Exports to the Euro Area

Sabine Stephan

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

Johannes Schwarze and Marco Härpfer

284: Youth Unemployment: Individual Risk Factors and Institutional Determinants: A Case Study of Germany and the United Kingdom

Bettina Isengard

283: Gaining Access to Housing in Germany: The Foreign Minority Experience

Anita I. Drever and William A. V. Clark

282: An Analysis of Institutional Change in the European Union with an Application to Social Policy

Martin Kolmar

281: To Aid, Insurance, Transfer, or Control: What Drives the Welfare State?

Edward Castronova

280: Riding the Transition Roller-Coaster: Flexibility and the Inter-Industry Wage Structure in Russia

Ingo Geishecker and John P. Haisken-DeNew

279: The Polish Zloty and Currency Speculation

Tatiana Fic

278: Does Religion Influence the Labour Supply of Married Women in Germany?

Guido Heineck

277: Smoke Signals: The Intergenerational Transmission of Smoking Behavior

Christian Bantle and John P. Haisken-DeNew

276: Maintenance of and Innovation in Long-Term Panel Studies: The Case of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP)

Jürgen Schupp and Gert Wagner

275: Kapitaldeckung in der Gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung: zur Berechnung der finanziellen Auswirkungen eines Umstiegs vom Umlage auf das Kapitaldeckungssystem

Markus Grabka, Hanfried H. Andersen, Klaus-Dirk Henke and Katja Borchardt

274: The Differential Influence of Women's Residential District on Their Risk of Entering Motherhood and First Marriage: A Discrete-Time Multilevel Analysis of Western German Panel Data, 1984 - 1999

Karsten Hank

273: Die sozioökonomischen Folgen eines einkommensabhängigen Kindergeldzuschlags: eine Mikrosimulation der "Grünen Kindergrundsicherung"

Birgit Otto

272: Bruttoeinkommensverteilung in Deutschland 1984 - 1999 und Ungleichheit unter ausländischen Erwerbstätigen

Regina Riphahn

271: The Personal Distribution of Income and Imputed Rent: A Cross-National Comparison for the UK, West Germany and the USA

Joachim Frick and Markus Grabka

270: Regional Social Contexts and Individual Fertility Decisions: A Multilevel Analysis of First and Second Births in Western Germany

Karsten Hank

269: Effects of Tariffication: Tariffs, Quotas and VERs under Monopolistic Competition

Jan Jørgensen and Philipp Schröder

268: A Decision Heuristic for Party Identification: New British and German Data and a New Understanding for a Classic Concept

Alan S. Zuckerman and Malcolm Brynin

267: Kassenwechsel in der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung: welche Rolle spielt der Beitragssatz?

Johannes Schwarze and Hanfried H. Andersen

266: Incentives to Retire Later: A Solution to the Social Security Crisis?

Friedrich Breyer and Mathias Kifmann

265: The Anatomy of Subjective Well-Being

Bernard van Praag, Paul Frijters and Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell

264: Institutionen, Finanzsysteme und Transformation

Hella Engerer and Mechthild Schrooten

263: The Determinants of Church Attendance and Religious Human Capital in Germany: Evidence from Panel Data

Guido Heineck

262: The Subjective Costs of Health Losses Due to Chronic Diseases: An Alternative Model for Monetary Appraisal

Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell and Bernard van Praag

261: Options for Transporting Russian Gas to Western Europe: A Game-theoretic Simulation Analysis

Andreas Chollet, Berit Meinhart, Christian Hirschhausen and Petra Opitz

260: Vertical Integration and Market Foreclosure with Convex Downstream Costs

Pio Baake, Ulrich Kamecke and Hans-Theo Normann

259: Market Size and Factor Endowment: Explaining Comparative Advantage in Bilateral Trade by Differences in Income and Per Capita Income

Dieter Schumacher

258: Probleme einer steigenden Lebenserwartung in der privaten Rentenversicherung: Theorie und Empirie für Deutschland

Johannes Leinert and Gert Wagner

257: Auswirkungen der Einführung der Sozialversicherungspflicht für geringfügige Beschäftigung: eine Evaluation des "630-DM-Jobs"-Reformgesetzes

Johannes Schwarze and Guido Heineck

256: Decomposing Permanent and Transitory Poverty

Jan Goebel

255: Life Course Risks, Mobility Regimes, and Mobility Consequences: A Comparison of Sweden, Germany and the U.S

Thomas A. DiPrete

254: Why Funding Is not a Solution to the "Social Security Crisis"

Friedrich Breyer

253: Income Redistribution and the Political Economy of Social Health Insurance: Comparing Germany and Switzerland

Friedrich Breyer

252: Is There a "Dead-Anyway" Effect in Willingness to Pay for Risk Reduction?

Friedrich Breyer and Markus Grabka

251: Langfristige Folgen einer Einbeziehung der Selbständigen in die gesetzliche Rentenversicherung

Mathias Kifmann

250: Savings in Central Eastern Europe

Mechthild Schrooten and Sabine Stephan

249: Autonomous Organization of the (International) Scientific Community Would Simplify Data Protection in the Social Sciences and Encourage Reanalysis

Gert Wagner

248: Modellgestützte Analyse der ökologischen Steuerreform mit LEAN, PANTA RHEI: und dem Potsdamer Mikrosimulationsmodell

Stefan Bach, Michael Kohlhaas, Bernd Meyer, Barbara Praetorius and Heinz Welsch

247: Wettbewerb aller Krankenversicherungen kann Qualität verbessern und Kosten des Gesundheitswesens senken

Wolfgang Buchholz, Birgit Edener, Markus Grabka, Klaus-Dirk Henke, Monika Huber, Hermann Ribhegge, Andreas Ryll, Hans-Jürgen Wagener and Gert Wagner

246: Power Utility Re-regulation in East European and CIS Transformation Countries (1990-1999): An Institutional Interpretation

Christian Hirschhausen and Petra Opitz

245: Estimating Causal Effects with Matching Methods in the Presence and Absence of Bias Cancellation

Thomas A. DiPrete and Henriette Engelhardt

244: Respondent Behavior in Panel Studies: A Case Study of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP)

Jörg-Peter Schräpler

243: Gütesiegel als neues Instrument der Qualitätssicherung von Humandienstleistungen: Gründe, Anforderungen und Umsetzungsüberlegungen am Beispiel von Kindertageseinrichtungen

Katharina Spiess and Wolfgang Tietze

242: Ecological Labelling and the World Trade Organization

Susanne Dröge

241: Do Probit Models Help in Forecasting Turning Points in German Business Cycles?

Ulrich Fritsche

240: Auswirkungen der demographischen Entwicklung auf die Zahl der Pflegefälle: Vorausschätzungen bis 2020 mit Ausblick auf 2050

Erika Schulz, Reiner Leidl and Hans-Helmut König

239: Arbeitsmarktbindung Nichterwerbstätiger: zur Stillen Reserve in Europa

Elke Holst and Katharina Spiess

238: Leading Indicators of Euroland Business Cycles

Ulrich Fritsche and Felix Marklein

237: Institutionelle Determinanten der Erwerbsarbeit: Zur Notwendigkeit einer Gender-Perspektive in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften

Elke Holst

236: Optionen der Weiterentwicklung des Risikostrukturausgleichs in der GKV

Friedrich Breyer and Mathias Kifmann

235: Child Poverty Dynamics in Seven Nations

Bruce Bradbury, Stephen Jenkins and John Micklewright

234: Umfang und Kompensation von Überstunden: eine vergleichende Analyse für Westdeutschland und Großbritannien

Markus Pannenberg and Gert Wagner

233: The Dynamics of Child Poverty: Britain and Germany Compared

Stephen Jenkins, Christian Schluter and Gert Wagner

232: Documentation of Sample Sizes and Panel Attrition in the German Socio Ecoomic Panel (GSOEP): (1984 until 1999)

Markus Pannenberg

231: Erosion of Monopoly Power due to the Emergence of Linux

Jürgen Bitzer

230: Unemployment and Productivity Growth: An Empirical Analysis within the Augmented Solow Model

Michael Bräuninger and Markus Pannenberg

229: Short Term Living Conditions and Long Term Prospects of Immigrant Children in Germany

Joachim Frick and Gert Wagner

228: Aggregation and Seasonal Adjustment: Empirical Results for EMU Quarterly National Accounts

Katja Rietzler, Sabine Stephan and Juergen Wolters

227: Using Panel Data on Income Satisfaction to Estimate the Equivalence Scale Elasticity

Johannes Schwarze

226: A Forgotten Issue: Distributional Effects of Day Care Subsidies in Germany

Michaela Kreyenfeld, Katharina Spiess and Gert Wagner

225: Personelle Einkommensverteilung und der Einfluß von Imputed Rent

Joachim Frick and Markus Grabka

224: Fiscal Federalism in Western European and Selected Other Countries: Centralization or Decentralization? What Is Better for Economic Growth?

Ulrich Thiessen

223: Volume and Comparative Advantage in East-West Trade

Dieter Schumacher and Parvati Trübswetter

222: To What Extent do Fiscal Regimes Equalize Opportunities for Income Acquisition Among Citizens?

John Roemer, Rolf Aaberge, Ugo Colombino, Johan Fritzell, Stephen Jenkins, Ive Marx, Marianne Page, Evert Pommer, Javier Ruiz-Castillo, Maria Jesus San Segundo, Torben Tranaes, Gert Wagner and Ignacio Zubiri

221: Research and Technology Organisations in National Systems of Innovation

Claudio Farina and Brigitte Preissl

220: Fiscal Federalism and Financial Resources for Regional Development - Co-operative and Competitive Models: The International Experience - an Example for Russia?

Bernhard Seidel and Mechthild Schrooten

219: Estimating Welfare Indices: Household Weights and Sample Design

Frank Cowell and Stephen Jenkins

218: A Generalized Estimating/Pseudo-Score Equations Approach for the Estimation of Structural Equation Models

Martin Spiess

217: The Distribution of Income by Sectors of the Population

Stephen Jenkins

216: Re-employment Probabilities for Spanish Men: What Role Does the Unemployment Benefit System Play?

Stephen Jenkins and Carlos García-Serrano

215: Evaluation of a Pseudo-R2 Measure for Panel Probit Models

Martin Spiess

214: Do Current Income and Annual Income Measures Provide Different Pictures of Britain's Income Distribution?

René Böheim and Stephen Jenkins

213: Measuring Income Risk

Simon Burgess, Karen Gardiner, Stephen Jenkins and Carol Propper

212: Möglichkeiten zur Modellierung hoher Einkommen auf Grundlage der Einkommensteuerstatistik

Stefan Bach and Bernd Bartholmai

211: Social Security Privatization and Financial Market Risk: Lessons from U.S. Financial History

Gary Burtless