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Productivity premia for German manufacturing firms exporting to the Euro-area and beyond: First evidence from robust fixed effects estimations
Verardi, Vincenzo; Wagner, Joachim - 2010
estimates of the productivity premium of German firms exporting to the Euro-zone and beyond, controlling for unobserved time … invariant firm specific effects, and tests for self-selection of more productive firms into exporting beyond the Euro-zone. (3 … share of outliers. Using a clean sample without outliers the estimated productivity premium of firms that export to the Euro-zone …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269790
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The Impact of Economic Integration on Employment - An Assessment in the Context of EU Enlargement
Fertig, Michael - 2003
(automotive and financial services) of the economy. The estimation results suggest that future integration processes lead to an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261627
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Equalizing or disequalizing lifetime earnings differentials? Earnings mobility in the EU: 1994 - 2001
Sologon, Denisa Maria; Donoghue, Cathal - 2009
Do EU citizens have an increased opportunity to improve their position in the distribution of lifetime earnings? To what extent does earnings mobility work to equalize/disequalize longer-term earnings relative to cross-sectional inequality and how does it differ across the EU? Our basic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276118
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Smoking persistence across countries: an analysis using semi-parametric dynamic panel data models with selectivity
Christelis, Dimitris; Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anna - 2009
We study smoking persistence in ten countries using data from the European Community Household Panel. Such persistence may be due to true state dependence but may also reflect individual unobserved heterogeneity. We distinguish between the two by using semi-parametric dynamic panel data methods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276467
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Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity in Europe : An Analysis of European Micro Data from the ECHP 1994-2001
Knoppik, Christoph; Beissinger, Thomas - 2005
This paper substantially extends the limited available evidence on existence and extent of downward nominal wage rigidity in the European Union and the Euro Area. For this purpose we develop an econometric multi-country model based on Kahn?s (1997) histogram-location approach and apply it to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262208
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The Distributional Impact of Social Transfers in the European Union: Evidence from the ECHP
Heady, Christopher; Mitrakos, Theodore; Tsakloglou, Panos - 2001
Social transfers vary enormously across the EU, as has been demonstrated in earlier research. This paper analyses the comparative effects of cash transfers on inequality and poverty, using consistent household data. The analysis shows that the distributional impact of these transfers is greater...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262565
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The different extent of privatisation proceeds in EU countries: a preliminary explanation using a public choice approach
Belke, Ansgar; Baumgärtner, Frank; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2005
This paper empirically investigates the differences in the motives of raising privatisation proceeds for a panel of EU countries from 1990 to 2000. More specifically, we test whether privatisations can be mainly interpreted (a) as ingredients of a larger reform package of economic liberalisation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276651
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The effect of migration and spatial connectivity on regional skill endowments across Europe: 1988-2010
Tani, Massimiliano; Manuguerra, Maurizio - 2013
using a random spatial effect model. We find that migration contributes to convergence in regional skill endowments across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293190
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The Effect of Migration and Spatial Connectivity on Regional Skill Endowments across Europe: 1988-2010
Tani, Massimiliano; Manuguerra, Maurizio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
using a random spatial effect model. We find that migration contributes to convergence in regional skill endowments across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734425
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On the Wage Growth of Immigrants: Israel, 1990-2000
Weiss, Yoram; Eckstein, Zvi - 2003
This paper develops a descriptive methodology for the analysis of wage growth of immigrants, based on human capital theory. The sources of the wage growth are: (i) the rise of the return to imported human capital; (ii) the impact of accumulated experience in the host country; and, (iii) the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262081