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This paper investigates the effect of displacement on reemployment wages of socially insured West German workers who became unemployed in 1986. Because detailed information on the cause of job loss is unavailable, displacement status is imputed using a probit estimated on the German...
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. We compare these results to results from a standard SVECM and find that, using the Subset VECM reduces estimation …
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We study whether selection affects motivation. In our experiment subjects first answer a personality questionnaire. They then play a 3-person game. One of the three players decides between an outside option assigning him a positive amount, but leaving the two others empty-handed and allowing one...
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Most models of labor markets and (un)employment neglect how competition among firms or sectors of the economy affects their hiring of workers and working times. Our approach pays special attention to such effects by proposing a complex stage game where firms invest in capital equipment before...
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This paper gives an account of events, and explains some systematic reasons of the UMTS auction flop in Switzerland … introduced in England and adopted in Switzerland and elsewhere is a cause of the disappointing performance of many UMTS auctions … in Europe, of which Switzerland is just one particularly pronounced example. The regulator would have been better advised …
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explorative study aims to shed some light into the black-box of the matching technology by applying nonparametric estimation …
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Estimation …
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exchange rate. The separate estimation of long-run money demands leads to a "structural" error correction equation which allows …
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East-West migration in Germany peaked at the beginning of the 90s although the average wage gap between Eastern and Western Germany continues to average about 25%. We analyze the propensity to migrate using microdata from the German Socioeconomic Panel. Fitting a parametric Generalized Linear...
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