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Do Ethnic Minorities "Stretch" Their Time?: Evidence from the UK Time Use Survey

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

multitasking than whites, with Pakistani and Bangladeshi males spending the least time. The gap is present for both ethnic minority … males and females, although females in general engage more in multitasking. The effect is also heterogeneous across …

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Collusive Effects of a Monopolist's Use of an Intermediary to Deliver to Retailers

Teichmann, Isabel; Schlippenbach, Vanessa von - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014

A manufacturer contracting secretly with several downstream competitors faces an opportunism problem, preventing it from exerting its market power. In an infinitely repeated game, the opportunism problem can be relaxed. We show that the upstream firm's market power can be restored even further...

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Evaluating Continuous Training Programs Using the Generalized Propensity Score

Kluve, Jochen; Schneider, Hilmar; Uhlendorff, Arne; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

This paper assesses the dynamics of treatment effects arising from variation in the duration of training. We use German ….e. days of training, to the individual post-treatment employment probability (the response). The dose-response function is … planned training durations as treatment variables: If only actual durations are observed, treatment effect estimates may be …

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Spillovers from Foreign Firms through Worker Mobility: An Empirical Investigation

Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

While there has been a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from multinationals this literature treats the channels through which these spillover effects work as a black box. The innovation of this paper is to investigate whether spillovers occur via worker mobility. We use data...

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Fiscal Competition, Capital-Skill Complementarity, and the Composition of Public Spending

Borck, Rainald - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

Following Keen and Marchand (1997), the paper analyses the effect of fiscal competition on the composition of public spending in a model where capital and skilled workers are mobile while low skilled workers are immobile. Taxes are levied on capital and labour. Each group of workers benefits...

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Labor Markets and the Financial Crisis: Evidence from Tajikistan

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

The financial crisis in 2008/2009 substantially influenced the everyday social and economic life of many Tajik people, including their behavior in the labor market. However, not much is known about the dynamics of the labor markets of the transition economies, especially in the context of the...

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Occupational Choice across Generations

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

There are few studies on occupational choices in Germany, and the second generation occupational choice and mobility is even less investigated. Such research is important because occupations determine success in the labor market. In a country like Germany occupations also reflect a general...

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Obesity and Developmental Functioning Among Children Aged 2-4 Years

Cawley, John; Spieß, C. Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

In developed countries, obesity tends to be associated with worse labor market outcomes. One possible reason is that obesity leads to less human capital formation early in life. This paper investigates the association between obesity and the developmental functioning of children at younger ages...

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The Returns to Cognitive Abilities and Personality Traits in Germany

Heineck, Guido; Anger, Silke - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

We provide the first joint evidence on the relationship between individuals' cognitive abilities, their personality and earnings for Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we employ scores from an ultra-short IQ-test and a set of measures of personality traits, namely...

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Riding the Transition Roller-Coaster: Flexibility and the Inter-Industry Wage Structure in Russia

Geishecker, Ingo; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002

This paper examines the changes in the inter-industry wage structure experienced by Russia since 1993, as part of its transition from a plan-based economy to a more \market oriented" structure. Using two Russian household panel data sets, the RLMS and the RUSSET, we _nd that since the...

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