In 1988, the wage distribution in East Germany was much more compressed than in West Germany or the U.S. Since the … collapse of Communism and unification with West Germany, however, the wage structure in eastern Germany has changed … Germany, individual variation in wage growth is similar to typical western levels. The wage structure of former East Germans …

escalations of violence. "Best case" scenarios with panel data fall short of workable early-warning systems …

We use a dynamic panel Tobit model with heteroskedasticity to generate point, set, and density forecasts for a large … and residential real estate loans, comparing various versions of the panel Tobit model …

panel data. We construct point predictors using Tweedie's formula for the posterior mean of heterogeneous coefficients under … Carlo study. In an empirical application we use the predictor to forecast revenues for a large panel of bank holding …

Since monetary union with western Germany on 1 July 1990, eastern female monthly wages have risen by 10 percentage … points relative to male wages, but female employment has fallen 5 percentage points more than male employment. Using the … most important determinant of the hazard rate from employment. Differences in mean 1990 wages explain more than half of the …