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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 …
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Stochastic population analysis: A functional data approach
Fang, Lei; Härdle, Wolfgang Karl - 2015
Based on the Lee-Carter (LC) model, the benchmark in population forecasting, a variety of extensions and modifications are proposed in this paper. We investigate one of the extensions, the Hyndman-Ullah (HU) method and apply it to Asian demographic data sets: China, Japan and Taiwan. It combines...
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A mortality model for multi-populations: A semi-parametric approach
Fang, Lei; Härdle, Wolfgang Karl; Park, Juhyun - 2016
Mortality is different across countries, states and regions. Several empirical research works however reveal that mortality trends exhibit a common pattern and show similar structures across populations. The key element in analyzing mortality rate is a time-varying indicator curve. Our main...
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The impact of a negative labor demand shock on fertility: Evidence from the fall of the Berlin Wall
Liepmann, Hannah - 2016
How does a negative labor demand shock impact individual-level fertility? I analyze this question in the context of the … East German fertility decline after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Exploiting di erential pressure for restructuring … an impact on completed fertility. …
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Implementing quotas in university admissions: An experimental analysis
Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; … - 2012
students often fail to grasp the strategic issues involved. The modified SDA algorithm significantly improves the matching for …
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The law of attraction bilateral search and horizontal heterogeneity
Hofmann, Dirk; Qari, Salmai - 2011
We study a matching model with heterogeneous agents, nontransferable utility and search frictions. Agents differ along …
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Telling the truth may not pay off: An empirical study of centralised university admissions in Germany
Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea - 2007
We investigate the matching algorithm used by the German central clearinghouse for university admissions (ZVS) in … criteria applied for admission they all make use of priority matching. In priority matching schemes, it is not a dominant … applicants, we are able to detect some amount of strategic behaviour which can lead to inefficient matching. Alternative ways to …
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The impact of international outsourcing on labour market dynamics in Germany
Bachmann, Ronald; Braun, Sebastian - 2008
Using an administrative data set containing daily information on individual workers' employment histories, we investigate how workers' labour market transitions are affected by international outsourcing. In order to do so, we estimate hazard rate models for match separations, as well as for...
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Can education save Europe from high unemployment?
Walter, Nicole; Xie, Runli - 2008
model with search-and-matching frictions, collective bargaining and monopolistic competition in the product market. Workers …
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Communal responsibility and the coexistence of money and credit under anonymous matching
Boerner, Lars; Ritschl, Albrecht - 2010
Communal responsibility, a medieval institution studied by Greif (2006), supported the use of credit among European merchants in the absence of modern enforcement technologies. This paper shows how this mechanism helps to overcome enforcement problems in anonymous buyer/seller transactions. In a...
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