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East Germany's wage gap: A non-parametric decomposition based on establishment characteristics
Görzig, Bernd; Gornig, Martin; Werwatz, Axel - 2006
size of the labour force - in this process. A non-parametric decomposition that has played a prominent role in the gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263641
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Firm specific wage spread in Germany: Decomposition of regional differences in inter firm wage dispersion
Görzig, Bernd; Gornig, Martin; Werwatz, Axel - 2006
structures. A non-parametric decomposition is used to analyse firm level difference between the wage spread in the two major … regions of unified Germany. If firm-specific effects explain wage dispersion between firms, a decomposition of the wage … dispersion between firms is necessary. The decomposition can help to find out, whether the economy-wide results for different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263642
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Product policy and the East-West productivity gap
Görzig, Bernd; Gornig, Martin; Voshage, Ramona; … - 2009
policy and productivity information for individual manufacturers from both parts of the country. Using a decomposition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270726
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Time-varying occupational contents: An additional link between occupational task profiles and individual wages
Fedorets, Alexandra - 2011
By analyzing occupational task profiles, an occupational change can be split up into two components: (1) transferability of task portfolios between occupations and (2) change in the value of the occupation-employee match. Extending the task-based approach of Gathmann and Schönberg (2009) by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281489
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Changes in occupational demand structure and their impact on individual wages
Fedorets, Alexandra - 2011
This paper estimates wage losses arising due to changes in the structure of demand for occupations. The data on occupational changes made for the sake of adjustment to the changes in the demand structure come from the German reunification of 1990. Endogenous occupational changes are instrumented...
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Peer effects and students' self-control
Buechel, Berno; Mechtenberg, Lydia; Petersen, Julia - 2014
We conducted a multi-wave field experiment to study the interaction of peer effects and selfcontrol among undergraduate students. We use a behavioral measure of self-control based on whether students achieve study related goals they have set for themselves. We find that both self-control and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427047
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Optimal Smoothing for aComputationally andStatistically Efficient SingleIndex Estimator
Xia, Yingcun; Härdle, Wolfgang; Linton, Oliver - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2009
In semiparametric models it is a common approach to under-smooth the nonparametric functions inorder that estimators of …-index is asymptoticallynormal and most effcient in the semi-parametric sense. Moreover, we derive higher expansions for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008939775
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Localized RealizedVolatility Modelling
Chen, Ying; Härdle, Wolfgang; Pigorsch, Uta - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2009
With the recent availability of high-frequency nancial data the longrange dependence of volatility regained researchers' interest and has leadto the consideration of long memory models for realized volatility. Thelong range diagnosis of volatility, however, is usually stated for long...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008939795
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On the Systemic Natureof Weather Risk
Filler, Günther; Odening, Martin; Okhrin, Ostap; Xu, Wei - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin>
Systemic weather risk is a major obstacle for the formation of private (non-subsidized) crop insurance. This paper explores the possibility of spatial diversication ofinsurance by estimating the joint occurrence of unfavorable weather conditions in dierentlocations. For that purpose copula...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008939796
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From Animal Baits to Investors´ Preference: Estimating and Demixingof the Weight Function in Semiparametric Models for Biased Samples
Ritov, Ya’acov; Härdle, Wolfgang - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2007
We consider two semiparametric models for the weight function in a biased sample model. The object of our interest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861031