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Constant, Amelie; D'Agosto, Elena - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

researchers who have at least a bachelor's from Italy and live abroad. There are three alternative country choices: the US …. Ceteris paribus, both push and pull factors are important. While having a Ph.D. from outside Italy predicts the UK choice …, having extra working experience from outside Italy predicts migration to other EU countries. Those who stay abroad …

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Aggregation and Seasonal Adjustment: Empirical Results for EMU Quarterly National Accounts

Rietzler, Katja; Stephan, Sabine; Wolters, Jürgen - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2000

This paper investigates the differences between directly and indirectly seasonally adjusted aggregates. This difference is derived analytically for linear seasonal adjustment methods. GDP data for five European countries and three classes of seasonal adjustment methods are used to show...

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The Impact of Displacement on Child Health: Evidence from Colombia's DHS 2010

Wald, Nina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014

This paper investigates the causal impact of displacement on health outcomes for Colombian children of different age cohorts. It uses the Colombian Demographic and Health Survey 2010, which provides both a number of health outcomes and information about displacement of households. Two different...

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Speculative Price Bubbles in Urban Housing Markets in Germany

Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; Michelsen, Claus; Ulbricht, Dirk - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014

The surge in the German house prices starting in 2010 raised fears about the emergence of a speculative bubble. Given a local nature of housing markets, it is not clear to what extent the bubble, if any, is spread across different cities. In this paper, we test for speculative house price...

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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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Internet-Based Hedonic Indices of Rents and Prices for Flats: Example of Berlin

Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; Mense, Andreas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

In this paper, we suggest to estimate the home rents and prices in German regions/cities using the data from Internet ads offering the housing for rent and sale. Given the richness of information contained in the ads, we are able to construct the quality-adjusted rent and price indices using the...

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Price Discovery and Trade Fragmentation in a Multi-Market Environment: Evidence from the MTS System

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Girardi, Alessandro - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

This paper proposes new metrics for the process of price discovery on the main electronic trading platform for euro-denominated government securities. Analysing price data on daily transactions for 107 bonds over a period of twenty-seven months, we find a greater degree of price leadership of...

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Can Internet Ads Serve as an Indicator of Homeownership Rates?

Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; Mense, Andreas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

In this paper, we propose an indicator of the homeownership rate based on Internet ads offering the housing for rent and sale. We constructed the HOR estimate using the number of ads in four different markets (flats for rent, flats for sale, houses for rent, and houses for sale). Our HOR...

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Self-Employment and Economic Performance: A Geographically Weighted Regression Approach for European Regions

Pijnenburg, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

The self-employment rate includes entrepreneurs out of opportunity and entrepreneurs out of necessity. While the effect of opportunity entrepreneurs on economic development should be positive, there should be no or a negative effect of necessity entrepreneurship. We use a geographically weighted...

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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 administrative data that have the extraordinary feature that the amount of treatment varies continuously from 10 days to 395 days (i.e. 13 months). This feature allows us to...

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