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Capital Controls and Macroprudential Measures: What Are They Good For?

Forbes, Kristin; Fratzscher, Marcel; Straub, Roland - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

Are capital controls and macroprudential measures successful in achieving their objectives? Assessing their effectiveness is complicated by selection bias and endogeneity; countries which change their capital-flow management measures (CFMs) often share specific characteristics and are responding...

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Patterns of Consent: Evidence from a General Household Survey

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Lynn, Peter; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

We analyse consent patterns and consent bias in the context of a large general household survey, the 'Improving survey measurement of income and employment' (ISMIE) survey, also addressing issues that arise when there are multiple consent questions. Using a multivariate probit regression model...

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Unobservable, but Unimportant?: The Influence of Personality Traits (and Other Usually Unobserved Variables) for the Evaluation of Labor Market Policies

Caliendo, Marco; Mahlstedt, Robert; Mitnik, Oscar A. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014

Many commonly used treatment effects estimators rely on the unconfoundedness assumption (“selection on observables") which is fundamentally non-testable. When evaluating the effects of labor market policies, researchers need to observe variables that affect both treatment participation and...

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Gender-Specific Occupational Segregation, Glass Ceiling Effects, and Earnings in Managerial Positions: Results of a Fixed Effects Model

Busch, Anne; Holst, Elke - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

The study analyses the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions in Germany based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the years 2001-2008. It focuses in particular on gender segregation in the labor market, that is, on the unequal distribution of women and...

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How Do Tourists React to Political Violence?: An Empirical Analysis of Tourism in Egypt

Fielding, David; Shortland, Anja - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

This paper uses a detailed database of political violence in Egypt to study European and US tourists' attitudes towards … political violence and counter-violence on tourist flows to Egypt in the 1990s. We find that both US and EU tourists respond …. There is also evidence of tourism in Egypt being affected by the Israeli / Palestinian conflict, with arrivals of tourists …

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Labor Markets and the Financial Crisis: Evidence from Tajikistan

Kröger, Antje; Meier, Kristina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

also find that labor migration (predominantly to Russia) could be a mitigation strategy during the crisis. …

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Reservation Wages of First and Second Generation Migrants

Constant, Amelie; Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

This paper analyzes the reservation wages of first and second generation migrants. Based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that reservation wages increase from first to second generation...

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Ethnic Minorities in the European Union: An Overview

Kahanec, Martin; Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

This paper sheds light on the labor market situation of ethnic minorities in the European Union. Facing a serious measurement challenge and lacking adequate data, we apply several measures of ethnicity and examine various data sources as well as secondary evidence. We find significant gaps...

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Economic Preferences and Attitudes of the Unemployed: Are Natives and Second Generation Migrants Alike?

Constant, Amelie F.; Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

In this paper we study the economic effects of risk attitudes, time preferences, trust and reciprocity while we compare natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between the two groups mainly in terms of risk attitudes...

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Ethnische Vielfalt und Arbeitsmarkterfolg

Rinne, Ulf; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

Das ökonomische Potenzial ethnischer und kultureller Vielfalt wird häufig verkannt. Die Ergebnisse neuerer Studien, die in diesem Beitrag zusammengefasst werden, zeigen jedoch, dass sich "weiche" Faktoren wie etwa Einstellungen, Wahrnehmungen und Identitäten, hier insbesondere ethnische...

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