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Sources of German unemployment : a structural vector error correction analysis

Brüggemann, Ralf - 2001

parameter restrictions. A cointegration analysis for the unified Germany reveals a long rum relationship between real wages …. We compare these results to results from a standard SVECM and find that, using the Subset VECM reduces estimation … uncertainty. In contrast to previous studies for West Germany, we find that, unemployment is equally determined by technology …

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Inside the black box of temporary help agencies

Kvasnicka, Michael (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Corporate restructuring, downsizing and managerial compensation

Graßhoff, Ulrike; Schwalbach, Joachim - 1997

There is common consensus that managerial compensation is strongly tied to firm size and much less so to financial performance. One suspects that observed restructuring and downsizing in corporations in recent years may have an effect on these results. Based on multi-task theoretical...

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Overeducation, undereducation, and the theory of career mobility

Büchel, Felix; Mertens, Antje - 2001

The theory of career mobility (Sicherman and Galor 1990) claims that wage penalties for overeducated workers are compensated by better promotion prospects. Sicherman (1991) was able to confirm this theory in an empirical study. However, the controls for the opposing phenomenon of undereducation...

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The influence of inventory effects and reference points on the rate of consumption

Bell, David R.; Boztuğ, Yasemin - 2001 - Rev.

"inventory elasticity of consumption" to represent the effect of inventory on consumption rates and propose a function that … inventory elasticity of consumption is highly significant in all categories and the elasticities range from 0.28 to 2.46. Some …

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Intuitive optimizing for time allocation decisions in newly formed ventures

Lévesque, Moren; Schade, Christian D. - 2002

This article investigates whether decision makers intuitively optimize close to the normative prediction in entrepreneurial decision situations where their time must be allocated between a wage job and a newly formed venture. We offer an analytical model based on maximizing expected utility, and...

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Semiparametric analysis of German East-West migration intentions : facts and theory

Burda, Michael C.; Härdle, Wolfgang; Müller, Marlene; … - 1997

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 …

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The Beveridge-Nelson decomposition : a different perspective with new results

Gómez, Víctor; Breitung, Jörg - 1998

We show in the paper that the decomposition proposed by Beveridge and Nelson (1981) for models that are integrated of order one can be generalized to seasonal Arima models by means of a partial fraction decomposition. Two equivalent algorithms are proposed to optimally (in the mean squared...

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Finance, investment, and firm value in Germany and the US : a comparative analysis

Nowak, Eric - 1998

Germany and the United States are generally seen as the two competing systems of corporate governance. In search for a … impact of financing, investment, and dividend decisions on the value of stock corporations in Germany and the US. The …

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Forecasting performance of market share attraction models : a comparison of different models assuming that competitors’ actions are forecasts

Klapper, Daniel; Herwartz, Helmut - 1998

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