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On the job search and the wage distribution
Christensen, Bent Jesper; Mortensen, Dale; Neumann, … - 2000
The estimates of the structural parameters of a job separations model derived from the theory of on-the-job search are … dispersion across employers exists in the sense that different employers offer different wages to the same worker, the theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009612015
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Does future PC use determine our wages today? : evidence from German panel data
Anger, Silke; Schwarze, Johannes - 2002
Using 1985-1999 data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) to analyze wages we confirm the hypothesis that existing computer wage premiums are determined by individual ability or other unobserved individual characteristics rather than by productivity effects. While a rather large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009620769
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Estimating wage losses of displaced workers in Germany
Burda, Michael C.; Mertens, Antje - 1999
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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Multiple politico-economic regimes, inequality and growth
Desdoigts, Alain; Moizeau, Fabien - 2001
ways depending on social affinity and on the prospect of upward or downwardmobility of the different income classes, (ii …) income distribution dynamics, intergenerational community formation and growth. In a world in which redistributive policies … pattern of income distribution and local versus social spillovers ratio under which inequality and segregation persist in the …
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Animal spirits, technology shocks and the business cycle
Weder, Mark - 1997
In this paper a two-sector growth model allowing indeterminacy to occur at relatively mild degrees of increasing returns is developed. It is shown that these economies of scale need only be present in one sector of the economy (investment). This feature of the model, therefore, builds on...
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Structural vector autoregressive models and monetary policy analysis
Holtemöller, Oliver - 2002
possibility is to adopt restrictions from economic theory. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the implications of the …
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Low-probability insurance decisions : the role of concern
Schade, Christian D.; Kunreuther, Howard; Kaas, Klaus Peter - 2002
On the basis of a real high stakes insurance experiment with small probabilities of losses, we demonstrate that concern is a more important driver of WTP for insurance than subjective probability estimates when there is ambiguity surrounding the estimate. Concern is still important when...
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Lag selection in subset VAR models with an application to a US monetary system
Brüggemann, Ralf; Lütkepohl, Helmut - 2000
Alternative modeling strategies for specifying subset VAR models are considered. It is shown that under certain conditions a testing procedure based on t-ratios is equivalent to sequentially eliminating lags that lead to the largest improvement in a prespecified model selection criterion. A...
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The great demand depression
Weder, Mark - 2001
This paper entertains the notion that disturbances on the demand side play a central role in our understanding of the Great Depression. In fact, from Euler equation residuals we are able to identify a series of unusually large negative demand shocks that appeared to have hit the U. S. economy...
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Tax evasion and risky investments in an intertemporal context : an experimental study
Giese, Sebastian; Hoffmann, Antje - 2000
In this experimental study of tax evasion and its determinants participants earn their income in a complex stochastic … intertemporal environment including the possibility to invest into a risky asset. The earned income has to be declared in four tax … donated to charity organizations. Our main results show that higher income induces tax fraud and that gender differences exist. …
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