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Labor force status dynamics in the German labor market : individual heterogeneity and cyclical sensitivity

Kluve, Jochen (contributor); Schaffner, Sandra (contributor) - 2006

comprehensive data on monthly transitions from the GSOEP, covering the time periods 1983-2003 for West Germany, and 1992-2003 for … East Germany. For 18 demographic cells defined by sex, 3 age categories, and 3 education categories, the model uses loading … unemployment and transition rates differs between East and West Germany, as well as between the sexes. In East Germany, all …

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Heterogeneity in the cyclical sensitivity of job-to-job flows

Schaffner, Sandra - 2009

evidence exists for Germany. Kluve, Schaffner, and Schmidt (2009) emphasize the heterogeneity of cyclical influences for … countercyclical. The empirical framework employed here allows demographic groups to vary in their cyclical sensitivity. In Germany …

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Univariate characterization of the German business cycle 1955-1994

Weihs, Claus; Garczarek, Ursula - 2002

We present a descriptive analysis of stylized facts for the German business cycle. We demonstrate that simple ad-hoc instructions for identifying univariate rules characterizing the German business cycle 1955-1994 lead to an error rate comparable to standard multivariate methods.

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Outliers and influence points in German business cycles

Zucknick, Manuela; Weihs, Claus; Garczarek, Ursula - 2002

In this paper, we examine the German business cycle (from 1955 to 1994) in order to identify univariate and multivariate outliers as well as influence points corresponding to Linear Discriminant Analysis. The locations of the corresponding observations are compared and economically interpreted.

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An inductive logic programming approach to the classification of phases in business cycles

Morik, Katharina; Rüping, Stefan - 2002

encouraging results on business cycle data from Germany. …

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Stability of multivariate representation of business cycles over time

Weihs, Claus; Garczarek, Ursula - 2002

In order to replace the univariate indicators standard in the literature (cp. [Opp96]) by a multivariate representation of business cycles, the relevant 'stylized facts' are to be identified which optimally characterize the development of business cycle phases. Based on statistical...

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Descriptive studies on stylized facts of the German business cycle

Theis, W.; Vogtländer, K.; Weihs, Claus - 1999

Thirteen Stylized Facts of the german economy are studied with different descriptive statistical methods. The results of this study are considered with respect to other results from Project B3 Multivariate Bestimmung und Untersuchung von Konjunkturzyklen.

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Cyclical classification of the RWI short term forecast : 1997-3 to 1999-4

Heilemann, Ullrich; Münch, Heinz Josef - 1998

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Classification-relevant importance measures for the West German business cycle

Enache, Daniel (contributor); Weihs, Claus (contributor); … - 2005

When analyzing business cycle data, one observes that the relevant predictor variables are often highly correlated. This paper presents a method to obtain measures of importance for the classification of data in which such multicollinearity is present. In systems with highly correlated variables...

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Experimental design for variable selection in data bases

Pumplün, Constanze (contributor); Weihs, Claus (contributor) - 2004

This paper analyses the influence of 13 stylized facts of the German economy on the West German business cycles from 1955 to 1994. The method used in this investigation is Statistical Experimental Design with orthogonal factors. We are looking for all existing Plackett-Burman designs realizable...

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