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Subsidized Vocational Training: Stepping Stone or Trap? An Evaluation Study for East Germany

Dettmann, Eva; Günther, Jutta - 2009

education induce equal employment opportunities compared to regular vocational training. Using replacement matching on the basis … Ausbildung) voneinander unterscheiden. Durch den Einsatz von replacement matching auf Grundlage eines statistischen aggregierten …

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A Control Group Study of Incubators’ Impact to Promote Firm Survival

Schwartz, Michael - 2010

nonparametric matching approach is applied to identify an appropriate control group. For neither of the five incubator locations we …

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Is there a Superior Distance Function for Matching in Small Samples?

Dettmann, Eva; Becker, Claudia; Schmeißer, Christian - 2010

The study contributes to the development of 'standards' for the application of matching algorithms in empirical … evaluation studies. The focus is on the first step of the matching procedure, the choice of an appropriate distance function … matching process. The choice of the analysed distance functions is determined by the results of former theoretical studies and …

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Panel Seasonal Unit Root Test With An Application for Unemployment Data

Reimers, Hans-Eggert; Dreger, Christian - 2004

In this paper the seasonal unit root test of Hylleberg et al. (1990) is generalized to cover a heterogenous panel. The procedure follows the work of Im, Pesaran and Shin (2002). Test statistics are proposed and critical values are obtained by simulations. Moreover, the properties of the tests...

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Inflation Expectations: Does the Market Beat Professional Forecasts?

El-Shagi, Makram - 2009

The present paper compares expected inflation to (econometric) inflation forecasts based on a number of forecasting techniques from the literature using a panel of ten industrialized countries during the period of 1988 to 2007. To capture expected inflation we develop a recursive filtering...

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A Glimpse on Sectoral Convergence of Productivity Levels

Müller, Gerald - 2001

This paper examines the presence of sectoral convergence of labor productivity between 14 OECD countries. Using the OECD International Sectoral Data Base (ISDB), the paper looks at the developments within 12 distinct sectors during the period 1970-1995. The change of the coefficients of variance...

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Intra-industry trade between European Union and Transition Economies. Does income distribution matter?

Gabrisch, Hubert; Segnana, Maria Luigia - 2002

EU-TE trade is increasingly characterised by intra-industry trade. For some countries (Czech Republic), the share of intra-industry trade in total trade with the EU approaches 60 percent. The decomposition of intra-industry trade into horizontal and vertical shares reveals overwhelming vertical...

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