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On the bilateral trade effects of free trade agreements between the EU-15 and the CEEC-4 countries

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2008

The expansion of regionalism has spawned an extensive theoretical literature analysing the effects of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. In this paper we focus on FTAs (also called European agreements) between the European Union (EU-15) and the Central and Eastern European countries...

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The added worker effect and the discouraged worker effect for married women in Australia

Gong, Xiaodong - 2010

This paper investigates both the added worker effect (the labour supply responses of women to their partners' job losses) and the discouraged worker effect (workers withdrawing from the labour market because of failed searches) for married women in Australia, with the emphasis on the former. We...

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Offshoring and firm performance: self-selection, effects on performance, or both?

Wagner, Joachim - 2009

This paper uses unique new data for German manufacturing enterprises from matched regular surveys and a special purpose survey to investigate the causal effect of relocation of activities to a foreign country on various dimensions of firm performance. Enterprises that relocated activities abroad...

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You can't be happier than your wife: happiness gaps and divorce

Guven, Cahit; Senik, Claudia; Stichnoth, Holger - 2009

divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we …

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A factorial survey on the justice of earnings within the SOEP-pretest 2008

Sauer, Carsten; Liebig, Stefan; Auspurg, Katrin; Hinz, … - 2009

In the 2008 Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) Pretest, the factorial survey method was tested for the first time for …

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Modelling heterogeneity and dynamics in the volatility of individual wages

Hospido, Laura - 2010

calibrated to the data used in the empirical analysis, drawn from the 1968-1993 Panel Study of Income Dynamics. The empirical …

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The KfW/ZEW start-up panel: design and research potential

Fryges, Helmut; Gottschalk, Sandra; Kohn, Karsten - 2009

Bankengruppe and Creditreform set up a panel study of newly founded firms in Germany: the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel. In each of the … yearly panel waves computer-aided telephone interviews (CATI) are conducted with about 6,000 start-up firms from almost all … industries. The KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel will for the first time enable profound analyses of the temporal development of newly …

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Sundays are blue: aren't they? ; the day-of-the-week effect on subjective well-being and socio-economic status

Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter - 2009

using a large panel data set and controlling for observed and unobserved individual characteristics, we find a large day …

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Severity of work disability and work

Oguzoglu, Umut - 2009

This paper analyzes the effect of severity of disability on labour force participation by using a self-reported work limitation scale. A dynamic labour force participation model is used to capture the feedback effect of past participation on current participation. The results suggest that net of...

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Robust estimation of linear fixed effects panel data models with an application to the exporter productivity premium

Verardi, Vincenzo; Wagner, Joachim - 2010

estimation of the popular linear fixed effects panel data model, and to supply Stata code for it. In an application from the …

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