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The contribution of pharmaceutical innovation to longevity growth in Germany and France
Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2010
I investigate the contribution of pharmaceutical innovation to recent longevity growth in Germany and France. First, I …-adjusted mortality rates of residents of Germany, using longitudinal, annual, state-level data during the period 2000-2007. The estimates …-2006. The estimates imply that chemotherapy innovation accounted for at least one-sixth of the decline in French cancer …
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Heavyweights - the impact of large businesses on productivity growth
Falck, Oliver (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003623797
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Firms' exports, volatility and skills : evidence from France
Bas, Maria; Bombarda, Pamela; Jean, Sébastien; … - 2019
Inequalities between workers of different skills have been growing in the era of globalization. Firms' internationalization mode has an impact on job stability. Exporting firms are not only exposed to different foreign shocks, they also pay skill-intensive fixed costs to serve foreign markets....
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"Take it or go to court" : the impact of sec. 1a of the German protection against dismissal act on severance payments
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2010
on panel data for West Germany indicate that the legal change did have a negative effect on severance pay. -- panel data …
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Sensitivity of matching-based program evaluations to the availability of control variables
Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - 2011
the question whether the omission of important control variables in matching estimation leads to biased impact estimates … as detailed regional characteristics are also relevant. -- training ; job search assistance ; matching estimation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011187
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Equity price dynamics before and after the introduction of the euro : a note
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Westermann, Frank - 2001
Daily data from the German and U.S. equity markets before and after the introduction of the Euro are used to study the effect of exchange rate regime choices on equity markets. It is found that, since the introduction of the Euro, the volatility and the persistence of the German stock index have...
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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...
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Early child care and child development : for whom it works and why
Felfe, Christina; Lalive, Rafael - 2012 - First version: October 2009, This version: December 2012
Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to benefit from such expansions? We address this question by adopting a marginal treatment effects framework. We study the West German setting where high quality center-based care...
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Do trading volumes explain the persistence of GARCH effects?
Carroll, Rachael; Kearney, Colm - In: Applied financial economics 22 (2012) 22/24, pp. 1993-2008
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Inflation targeting on unemployment rates : a quantile treatment effect approach
Huang, Ho-chuan; Yeh, Chih-chuan - In: Applied economics letters 21 (2014) 7/9, pp. 453-458
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