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On the wages of temporary help service workers in Germany

Kvasnicka, Michael; Werwatz, Axel - 2002

This paper produces first econometric estimates for Germany of the contemporanous wage gap associated with Temporary …

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Marginal employment - a dead end? : a survival analysis based on West German spelldata

Kolb, Jürgen; Werwatz, Axel - 2000

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Semiparametric analysis of German East-West migration intentions : facts and theory

Burda, Michael C.; Härdle, Wolfgang; Müller, Marlene; … - 1997

East-West migration in Germany peaked at the beginning of the 90s although the average wage gap between Eastern and … Western Germany continues to average about 25%. We analyze the propensity to migrate using microdata from the German … compatible with classical Marshallian theory of migration and motivates the semiparametric analysis. We estimate a Generalized …

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A state space model for Berlin house prices

Schulz, Rainer; Werwatz, Axel - 2001

How risky are investments in residential real estate? To answer this question, information is needed about the behavior of house prices. The hedonic methodology has become a standard approach for modelling the prices of heterogeneous assets. Although intuitively appealing, it is often criticized...

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Asymptotic properties of the nonparametric part in partial linear heteroscedastic regression models

Liang, Hua; Härdle, Wolfgang; Werwatz, Axel - 1997

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Does male age have an influence on the risk of spontaneous abortion? : an approach combining semiparametric and parametric regression

Slama, Rémy; Werwatz, Axel; Boutou, Odile; Ducot, Béatrice - 2002

Couples from Western countries tend to delay their pregnancies, which may affect their ability to obtain a live birth. We assessed the association between male age and the risk of spontaneous abortion taking into account woman's age. We performed telephone interviews on a ross-sectional random...

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How accurate do markets predict the outcome of an event? : the Euro 2000 soccer championships experiment

Schmidt, Carsten; Werwatz, Axel - 2002 - Rev.

For the Euro 2000 Soccer Championships an experimental asset market was condueted, with traders buying and selling contracts on the winners of individual matches. Market-generated probabilities are compared to professional bet quotas, and factors that are responsible for the quality of the...

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A simple state space model of house prices

Schulz, Rainer; Werwatz, Axel - 2002

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Analyzing XploRe download profiles with intelligent miner

Sofyan, Hizir; Werwatz, Axel - 2000

This paper is an example of data mining in action. The database we are mining contains 1085 profiles of individuals who have downloaded the statistical software XploRe. Each profile contains the responses to an online questionnaire comprised of questions about such things as an individuals'...

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