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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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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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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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Entrepreneurship versus Joblessness: Explaining the Rise in Self-Employment

Falco, Paolo; Haywood, Luke - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

The self-employed constitute a large proportion of the workforce in developing countries and the sector is growing. Different accounts exist as to the causes of this development, with pull factors such as high returns to capital contrasted with push factors such as barriers to more desirable...

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Economic Costs of Mass Violent Conflicts: Final Report for the Small Arms Survey, Geneva, Switzerland

Bozzoli, Carlos; Brück, Tilman; Drautzburg, Thorsten; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung)

This paper provides a critical analysis of the possible methods, data sources and the existing results of the field of 'the economic costs of mass violent conflict' by identifying strengths and weaknesses of the existing literature. The report evaluates content, methods, and data sources of the...

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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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