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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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Externalities in the matching of workers and firms in Britain
Burgess, Simon M.; Profit, Stefan - 1998
We provide empirical evidence on the nature of spatial externalities in a matching model for the UK. We use a monthly panel of outflows, unemployment and vacancy stocks data from the registers at Jobcentres in the UK; these are mapped on to travel-to-work areas. We find evidence of significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009576211
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Non-uniformity of job-matching in a transition economy : a nonparametric analysis for the Czech Republic
Profit, Stefan; Sperlich, Stefan - 1998
explorative study aims to shed some light into the black-box of the matching technology by applying nonparametric estimation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009574874
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Common cycles : a frequency domain approach
Breitung, Jörg; Candelon, Bertrand - 2000
series with a zero spectral density at some frequency. Estimation and inference can be performed using an Instrumental … an analysis of the comovement between Germany, Austria and the United Kingdom is presented. -- common feature analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009612024
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The transmission of German monetary policy in the pre-Euro period
Lütkepohl, Helmut; Wolters, Jürgen - 2001
A small macroeconomic model is constructed to study the transmission of the monetary policy conducted by the Deutsche Bundesbank (DBB) since the middle of the 1970s. For this purpose quarterly, seasonally unadjusted data for the period from 1975 to 1998 are used, that is, the period until the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009616780
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The Polish crawling peg system : a cointegration analysis
Trenkler, Carsten - 2000
After a temporary period of a fixed exchange rate regime pegging the Polish zloty to the U.S. dollar, Poland established a preannounced crawling peg regime on October 15, 1991. In this system the zloty is tied to a currency basket and devalued with a preannounced monthly rate (rate of crawl). If...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009612052
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Germany’s labor market problems : what to do and what not to do? ; a survey among experts
Profit, Stefan; Tschernig, Rolf - 1998
In this study we collect information on what economists would suggest for reducing German unemployment. This was done by conducting a detailed survey containing 35 measures at two conferences of different kind. One conference was a small conference at the Humboldt-University in Berlin attended...
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Beyond "manucentrism" : some fresh facts about job and worker flows
Bingley, Paul; Eriksson, Tor; Werwatz, Axel; … - 1999
This paper gives a comprehensive picture of job and worker flows for the entire Danish economy. We exploit a unique central administrative register encompassing all employees of all workplaces across all sectors throughout two business cycles. This enables us to broaden the focus of the previous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009581098
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Modeling the interdependence of volatility and inter-transaction duration processes
Grammig, Joachim; Wellner, Marc - 1999
-transaction duration process and vice versa. In order to solve the estimation problems implied by this interdependent formulation, we first … propose a GMM estimation procedure for the Autoregressive Conditional Duration model. The method is then extended to the … simultaneous estimation of the interdependent duration-volatility model. In an empirical application we utilize the model for an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009579173
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Reappraising medfly longevity : a quantile regression survival analysis
Koenker, Roger; Geling, Olga - 1999
Chaudhuri, Doksum and Samarov (1997) have recently stressed the usefulness of the quantile regression formulation for survival analysis and for transformation models, more generally. In this paper, we explore the use of quantile regression in survival analysis by reanalysing a large experimental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580464