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Health and wealth of elderly couples : causality tests using dynamic panel data models

Michaud, Pierre-Carl (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

A positive relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and health, the so-called "health-wealth gradient", is repeatedly found in most industrialized countries with similar levels of health care technology and economic welfare. This study analyzes causality from health to wealth (health...

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Class size, education, and wages

Dustmann, Christian; Rajah, Najma; Soest, Arthur van - 2002

This paper examines the effects of class size on the decision to stay on in full time schooling at the age of 16 and on wages at later stages in life. Little research exists on the effect of school quality on career decisions, although it has potentially important long term implications. We use...

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The future of retirement and the pension system : how the public's expectations vary over time and across socio-economic groups

Bissonnette, Luc; Soest, Arthur van - 2011

We analyze expectations of the Dutch population of ages 25 and older concerning the future generosity state and occupational pensions, the two main pillars of the Dutch pension system. Since the summer of 2006, monthly survey data were collected on the expectations of Dutch households concerning...

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Higher productivity in importing German manufacturing firms : self-selection, learning from importing, or both?

Vogel, Alexander (contributor); Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2008

This paper uses a newly available comprehensive panel data set for manufacturing enterprises from 2001 to 2005 to document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the world market for goods. Furthermore, for the first time...

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Exports and profitability : first evidence for German manufacturing firms

Fryges, Helmut (contributor); Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2008

Using unique recently released nationally representative high-quality longitudinal data at the enterprise level for Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It documents that the positive profitability differential of...

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Works councils, labor productivity and plant heterogeneity : evidence from quantile regressions

Wagner, Joachim; Addison, John T.; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Using quantile regressions and a rich cross section data set for German manufacturing plants, this paper reports that the impact of works councils on labor productivity varies along the conditional distribution of value added per employee. It emerges that the positive and statistically...

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Productivity premia for German manufacturing firms exporting to the Euro-area and beyond : first evidence from robust fixed effects estimations

Verardi, Vincenzo; Wagner, Joachim - 2010

estimates of the productivity premium of German firms exporting to the Euro-zone and beyond, controlling for unobserved time … invariant firm specific effects, and tests for self-selection of more productive firms into exporting beyond the Euro-zone. (3 … Euro-zone only is no longer much smaller that the premium of firms that export beyond the Euro-zone, too, and the premium …

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The exporter productivity premium along the productivity distribution : first evidence from a quantile regression approach for fixed effects data models

Powell, David; Wagner, Joachim - 2010

An emerging literature on international activities of heterogeneous firms documents that exporting firms are more productive than firms that only sell on the national market. This positive exporter productivity premium shows up in a large number of empirical studies after controlling for...

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Exports and productivity growth : first evidence from a continuous treatment approach

Fryges, Helmut (contributor); Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2007

A recent survey of 54 micro-econometric studies reveals that exporting firms are more productive than non-exporters. On the other hand, previous empirical studies show that exporting does not necessarily improve productivity. One possible reason for this result is that most previous studies are...

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Tax structure and female labour market participation: evidence from Ireland

Callan, Tim (contributor); Soest, Arthur van (contributor); … - 2007

How great an effect does the structure of income taxes have on women’s labour market participation? This issue is investigated using a discrete choice static labour supply model for married couples in Ireland. The model incorporates fixed costs of working and simultaneously explains...

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