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Bönke, Timm; Corneo, Giacomo; Lüthen, Holger - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

This paper documents the magnitude, pattern, and evolution of lifetime earnings inequality in Germany. Based on a large …. Earnings data for thirty-one cohorts reveals striking evidence of a secular rise of intra-generational inequality in lifetime … earnings: West-German men born in the early 1960s are likely to experience about 80 % more lifetime inequality than their …

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The Bootstrap and the Edgeworth Correction for Semiparametric Averaged Derivatives

Nishiyama, Yoshihiko; Robinson, Peter M - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2005

In a number of semiparametric models, smoothing seems necessary in order to obtain estimates of the parametric component which are asymptotically normal and converge at parametric rate. However, smoothing can inflate the error in the normal approximation, so that refined approximations are of...

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Robustness of bootstrap in instrumental variable regression

Camponovo, Lorenzo; Otsu, Taisuke - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2014

This paper studies robustness of bootstrap inference methods for instrumental variable (IV)regression models. We consider test statistics for parameter hypotheses based on the IV estimatorand generalized method of trimmed moments (GMTM) estimator introduced by Cížek (2008, 2009),and compare...

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Bootstrap Tests of Stochastic Dominance with AsymptoticSimilarity on the Boundary

Linton, Oliver; Song, Kyungchul; Whang, Yoon-Jae - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2008

We propose a new method of testing stochastic dominance which improves onexisting tests based on bootstrap or subsampling. Our test requires estimation ofthe contact sets between the marginal distributions. Our tests have asymptoticsizes that are exactly equal to the nominal level uniformly over...

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Technical Efficiency and CO2 Reduction Potentials: An Analysis of the German Electricity Generating Sector

Seifert, Stefan; Cullmann, Astrid; Hirschhausen, … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014

In this paper, we analyze the technical efficiency of CO2 reduction potentials of German power and heat plants, using a non-parametric sequential Data Envelopment Analysis. We apply a metafrontier framework to evaluate plant-level efficiencies in the transformation of inputs into desirable...

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Estimating Alternative Technology Sets in Nonparametric Efficiency Analysis: Restriction Tests for Panel and Clustered Data

Neumann, Anne; Nieswand, Maria; Schubert, Torben - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

Nonparametric efficiency analysis has become a widely applied technique to support industrial benchmarking as well as a variety of incentive- based regulation policies. In practice such exercises are often plagued by incomplete knowledge about the correct specifications of inputs and outputs....

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Income Taxation and Household Size: Would French Family Splitting Make German Families Better Off ?

Baclet, Alexandre; Dell, Fabien; Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

In this paper, we address the question whether family support via the income tax system is more generous in France than in Germany, as it is often claimed in the public debate. We use two micro-data sets and a micro-simulation model to compare effective average tax rates for different household...

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20 Years of German Unification: Evidence on Income Convergence and Heterogeneity

Brück, Tilman; Peters, Heiko - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we compare total individual income of permanent adult residents, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West...

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