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Further evidence on the (in-) efficiency of the U.S. housing market

Schindler, Felix - 2010

Extending the controversial findings from relevant literature on testing the efficient market hypothesis for the U.S. housing market, the results from the monthly and quarterly transaction-based Case-Shiller indices from 1987 to 2009 provide further empirical evidence on the rejection of the...

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How efficient is the U.K. housing market?

Schindler, Felix - 2010

Extending the controversial findings from the relevant literature, the results from the quarterly transaction-based Nationwide indices from 1974 to 2009 provide further empirical evidence on the rejection of the weak-form version of efficiency in the U.K. housing market. In addition to...

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Return to work after medical rehabilitation in Germany: Influence of individual factors and regional labour market based on administrative data

Hetzel, Christian; Leinberger, Sarah; Kaluscha, Rainer; … - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 57 (2023) 1, pp. 1-14

work after medical rehabilitation is to be analyzed based on comprehensive administrative data from the German Pension … Insurance and Employment Agencies. Method For rehabilitation in 2016, pre- and post-rehabilitation employment was determined … from German Pension Insurance data for 305,980 patients in 589 orthopaedic rehabilitation departments and 117,386 patients …

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Firm Level Innovation and Productivity: Is there a Common Story Across Countries?

Peters, Bettina; Lööf, Hans; Janz, Norbert - 2003

Recent studies have documented extensive heterogeneity in firm performance within countries, and innovation has been found as an important determinant. This paper addresses the issue of innovation firm performance across countries. A growing number of national firm level studies on the...

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Peer Effects in European Primary Schools: Evidence from PIRLS

Ammermüller, Andreas; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2006

We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...

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Dynamic Optimal Capital Structure and Technological Change

Lööf, Hans - 2003

This paper incorporates the cost of adjustment between observed and optimal leverage in explaining the variation in firm?s equity or bank-debt financing investments. Using a dynamic adjustment approach identifies the determinants to capital structure between different financial systems. In...

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The impact of temporary employment and employment protection on labour productivity: evidence from an industry-level panel of EU countries

Lisi, Domenico - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 46 (2013) 2, pp. 119-144

In recent years the availability of new industry-level data allowed to evaluate the impact of labour market policies more consistently than previous standard cross-country studies. In this paper an industry-level panel is exploited to evaluate the impact of Employment Protection Legislation...

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Imbalanced Job Polarization and Skills Mismatch in Europe

Sparreboom, Theo; Tarvid, Alexander - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 49 (2016) 1, pp. 15-42

This paper considers the education of the labour force based on an analysis of trends in and the relationships between job polarization and skills mismatch. Both job polarization and skills mismatch have become topics of increasing interest, but relationships between the two have been relatively...

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Protecting working-age people with disabilities: experiences of four industrialized nations

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Daly, Mary C.; Ziebarth, Nicolas - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 49 (2016) 4, pp. 367-386

Although industrialized nations have long provided public protection to working-age individuals with disabilities, the form has changed over time. The impetus for change has been multi-faceted: rapid growth in program costs; greater awareness that people with impairments are able and willing to...

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