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Sensitivity of matching-based program evaluations to the availability of control variables

Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - 2011

Based on new, exceptionally informative and large German linked employer-employee administrative data, we investigate the question whether the omission of important control variables in matching estimation leads to biased impact estimates of typical active labour market programs for the...

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Wages anatomy : labor supply of nurses and a comparison with physicians

Andreassen, Leif; Di Tommaso, Maria Laura; Strøm, Steinar - 2014

We estimate a dynamic discrete choice model of Registered Nurses’ labor supply with random terms. A distinguished feature of our model is that random terms are correlated over time and jobs (habit persistence). Past options and not only the past optimal choices matter for the current choices....

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Skill premiums and the supply of young workers in Germany

Glitz, Albrecht; Wissmann, Daniel - 2017

In this paper, we study the development and underlying drivers of skill premiums in Germany between 1980 and 2008. We …

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Exporting and labor demand : micro-level evidence from Germany

Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Sieglich, Sebastian - 2014

It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms' exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel...

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Do firms hire more older workers? : evidence from Germany

Busch, Fabian; Fenge, Robert; Ochsen, Carsten - 2021

This paper analyses how demographic changes of the labour force affect labour demand. Do firms adjust their hiring behaviour to an ageing society? Combining data at the firm level and the administrative district level, we analyse the hiring behaviour of firms. Our findings suggest that firms...

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Optimal use of labor market policies : the role of job search assistance

Wunsch, Conny - 2009

This paper studies the role of job search assistance programs in optimal welfare-to-work programs. The analysis is based on a framework, that allows for endogenous choice of benefit types and levels, wage taxes or subsidies, and activation measures such as monitoring and job search assistance...

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What do we know about recent exchange rate models? : in-sample fit and out-of-sample performance evaluated

Cheung, Yin-Wong; Chinn, Menzie David; Pascual, Antonio … - 2003

Previous assessments of nominal exchange rate determination have focused upon a narrow set of models typically of the 1970 s vintage, including monetary and portfolio balance models. In this paper we re-assess the in-sample fit and out-of-sample prediction of a wider set of models that have been...

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Inequality and the state : comparing U.S. and German preferences

Corneo, Giacomo - 2000

Survey data from the United States, West Germany and East Germany are analyzed to compare individual attitudes towards … political redistribution in each country. In West Germany the homo oeconomicus effect , the social rivalry effect and the public … effect disappears. In East Germany both the second and the third effect disappear. …

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Significance of development stage theory for explaining industrial growth pattern between Asian NICs and selected advanced economies

Nam, Chang-woon - 2002

Germany and the US. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409015

Direct evidence for income comparisons and subjective well-being across reference groups

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2015

novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative income for seven reference groups. We find … negative correlations between comparison intensity and SWB for colleagues, people in the same occupation and friends, but not …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346880

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