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From Bottom to Top: The Entire Distribution of Market Income in Germany, 1992 - 2001
Bach, Stefan; Corneo, Giacomo; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
modest increase in overall inequality of market incomes as measured by the Gini coefficient. However, we also document a … income inequality was stronger in East Germany than in West Germany. In both regions, the income concentration process …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963679
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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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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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Economic Gains from Publicly Provided Education in Germany
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
The aim of this paper is to estimate income advantages arising from publicly provided educa-tion and to analyse their impact on the income distribution in Germany. Using representative micro-data from the SOEP and considering regional and education-specific variation, from a cross-sectional...
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Violent Conflict and Inequality
Bircan, Cagatay; Brück, Tilman; Vothknecht, Marc - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
in income inequality. Our results indicate rising levels of inequality during war and especially in the early period of … post-war reconstruction. However, we find that this rise in income inequality is not permanent. While inequality peaks …-war reconstruction seem to be valid explanations for these patterns of inequality. A series of alternative specifications confirms the …
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