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Does Germany Have the "World's Highest Wage Costs"?

Lindlar, Ludger; Scheremet, Wolfgang - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 1998

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Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.

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Are Interregional Wage Differentials in Russia Compensative?

Oshchepkov, Aleksey - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

Interregional differentials in nominal wages in the Russian Federation are huge compared to other countries. Using the NOBUS micro-data and a methodology based on the estimation of the wage equation augmented by aggregate regional characteristics, we show that these differentials have a...

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Using the P90/P10 Index to Measure US Inequality Trends with Current Population Survey Data: A View from Inside the Census Bureau Vaults

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, Shuaizhang; Jenkins, … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

The March Current Population Survey (CPS) is the primary data source for estimation of levels and trends in labor earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to top coding in theses data have led many researchers to use the ratio of the 90th and 10th...

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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....

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Goods Follow Bytes: The Impact of ICT on EU Trade

Mattes, Anselm; Meinen, Philipp; Pavel, Ferdinand - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

This paper empirically assesses whether the deployment and use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure at the national level affects trade flows within the European Union (EU) and between the EU and its main trading partners. The analysis tests the hypothesis that...

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Liquidity and the Dynamic Pattern of Asset Price Adjustment: A Global View

Belke, Ansgar; Orth, Walter; Setzer, Ralph - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

Global liquidity expansion has been very dynamic since 2001. Contrary to conventional wisdom, high money growth rates have not coincided with a concurrent rise in goods prices. At the same time, however, asset prices have increased sharply, significantly outpacing the subdued development in...

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Price Cost Margins and Exporting Behaviour: Evidence from Firm Level Data

Görg, Holger; Warzynski, Frederic - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

This paper examines whether exporting activity matters for firm's price cost margins. The recent literature on exporting and productivity shows that exporters on average are more efficient than nonexporters. If that is the case we may also expect them to have different mark-ups. We investigate...

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Trade Policy Uncertainty and the WTO

Groppo, Valeria; Piermartini, Roberta - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014

Do WTO commitments reduce the risk of trade policy reversals? To address this question, we rely on the theoretical model of varying cooperative tariffs by Bagwell and Staiger (1990) to specify our empirical model for the probability of a tariff increase. We then study how WTO tariff commitments...

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International Outsourcing and the Skill Structure of Labour Demand in the United Kingdom

Hijzen, Alexander; Görg, Holger; Hine, Robert C. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

This paper investigates empirically the link between international outsourcing and the skill structure of labour demand … in the United Kingdom. It is the first detailed study of this issue for the UK. Outsourcing is calculated using import … factor demands, our main results show that international outsourcing has had a strong negative impact on the demand for …

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