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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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...
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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...
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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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Does temporary agency work provide a stepping stone to regular employment?
Kvasnicka, Michael - 2005
Based on administrative data from the federal employment office in Germany, we apply matching techniques to estimate the stepping-stone function of temporary agency work for the unemployed, i.e. its short-run and long-run effects on their future employment prospects. Our results show that...
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Economic growth of agglomerations and geographic concentration of industries: Evidence for Germany
Geppert, Kurt; Gornig, Martin; Werwatz, Axel - 2006
The vast majority of regions in West Germany, and the EU, have become more similar in terms of per-capita income and productivity between 1980 and 2000. But a number of rich areas - generally large agglomerations - have succeeded in departing from this trend of convergence. They are continuing...
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Spectral calibration of exponential Lévy Models [1]
Belomestny, Denis; Reiß, Markus - 2006
We investigate the problem of calibrating an exponential Lévy model based on market prices of vanilla options. We show that this inverse problem is in general severely ill-posed and we derive exact minimax rates of convergence. The estimation procedure we propose is based on the explicit...
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Produktdiversifizierung: Haben die ostdeutschen Unternehmen den Anschluss an den Westen geschafft? Eine vergleichende Analyse mit Mikrodaten der amtlichen Statistik
Görzig, Bernd; Gornig, Martin; Werwatz, Axel - 2006
Die Gestaltung der Produktpalette war ein zentrale Herausforderung für ostdeutsche Unternehmer nach der Wende. Spezialisierung oder diffuse Generalistenstrategie war die Frage. Welche Strategie sich durchgesetzt hat und ob der Anschluss an den Westen gelang, wird in dieser Arbeit erstmals auf...
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