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Money for Nothing and Your Chips for Free? The Anatomy of the PC Wage Dipperential

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 1999

In this paper, the role of the computer at the workplace will be examined in determining the wage structure in Germany … random effects and fixed effects estimator were run in the wage estimation. We confirm the results that Entorf and Kramarz … (1997) had for France, that in Germany the coefficient for computer usage at the workplace did not remain stable and …

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The Heterogeneity and Cyclical Sensitivity of Unemployment: An Exploration of German Labor Market Flows

Schmidt, Christoph M. - 1999

individual-level data for West Germany for the period 1983 to 1994, this paper explores both the demographic heterogeneity of … and re-employment, estimation of a nonlinear regression model reveals additional aspects of cyclical sensitivity. In …

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Industry Wage Differentials Revisited: A Longitudinal Comparison of Germany and USA (1984-1996)

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 1999

In this paper, the inter-industry wage structure in West Germany and USA is compared using the German Socio …

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Aggregate-Level Migration Studies as a Tool for Forecasting Future Migration Streams

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2000

Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address aggregate-level prediction problems is to fit ad hoc specifications to historical data, and to...

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The Wage Performance of Immigrant Women: Full-Time Jobs, Part-Time Jobs, and the Role of Selection

Dustmann, Christian; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2000

This paper contrasts labour participation behaviour and wages of native and immigrant women. Since the impact of family structure on labor supply differs between natives and immigrants, we explicitly distinguish between part-time and full-time jobs. The choice of jobs is accounted for by an...

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Active Labor Market Policy in Germany - Is There a Successful Policy Strategy?

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Schneider, Hilmar - 2002

Each year Germany and many other developed economies spend tens of billions of Euros on active measures of employment … offices in Germany. To this end, we analyze ALMP in Germany in a spatially augmented regression framework. Our results suggest …

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Tobacco and alcohol: complements or substitutes? ; a structural model approach

Tauchmann, Harald; Göhlmann, Silja; Requate, Till; … - 2008

explanatory variables. This approach is applied to German survey data. Our estimation results suggest that a reduction in tobacco …

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Beyond GDP and back: What is the value-added by additional components of welfare measurement?

Kassenböhmer, Sonja C.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2011

Recently, building on the highly polarizing Stiglitz report, a growing literature suggests that statistical offices and applied researchers explore other aspects of human welfare apart from material well-being, such as job security, crime, health, environmental factors and subjective...

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Disentangling Treatment Effects of Polish Active Labor Market Policies: Evidence from Matched Samples

Kluve, Jochen; Lehmann, Hartmut; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2001

conditional treatment effect estimation can add considerable insight to the interpretation of results. …

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The Role of Background Factors for Reading Literacy: Straight National Scores in the PISA 2000 Study

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2002

Based on the individual-level data of the PISA 2000 study, this note provides a detailed econometric analysis of the way that reading test scores are associated with individual and family background information and with characteristics of the school and class of the 15 to 16 year old respondents...

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