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Low Pay Persistence in European Countries

Clark, Ken; Kanellopoulos, Nikolaos C. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009

Using panel data for twelve European countries over the period 1994-2001 we estimate the extent of state dependence in low pay. Controlling for observable and unobservable heterogeneity as well as the endogeneity of initial conditions we find positive, statistically significant state dependence...

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True Versus Spurious State Dependence in Firm Performance: The Case of West German Exports

Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans Christian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

This paper analyzes the persistence of firms' exporting behavior in a panel of West German manufacturing firms. Dynamic binary choice models allow us to distinguish between true and spurious state dependence in firm performance. Using random effects models as well as a recent fixed effect...

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Persistence of Innovation: Stylised Facts and Panel Data Evidence

Peters, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

This paper investigates whether firms innovate persistently or discontinuously over time using an innovation panel data set on German manufacturing and service firms for the period 1994?2002. We find that innovation behaviour is permanent at the firm?level to a very large extent. Using a dynamic...

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Unemployment Persistence: Is There Evidence for Stigma Effects?

Biewen, Martin; Steffes, Susanne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

We present evidence for a highly significant interaction between state dependence in individual unemployment risk and … high unemployment and larger in times of low unemployment. This is consistent with the existence of stigma effects in the … sense that unemployed individuals face difficulties finding a new job because employers interpret unemployment as a negative …

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The Dynamics of Social Assistance Benefit Receipt in Germany: State Dependence before and after the 'Hartz Reforms'

Königs, Sebastian - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014

In this article, we study state dependence in social assistance receipt in Germany using annual survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1995-2011. We show that there is considerable observed state dependence, with an average persistence rate in benefits of 68%...

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