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Does Temporary Agency Work Provide a Stepping Stone to Regular Employment?
Kvasnicka, Michael - Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, … - 2005
Based on administrative data from the federal employment office in Germany, we apply matching techniques to estimate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005489973
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Stochastic Population Analysis: A Functional Data Approach
Fang, Lei; Härdle, Wolfgang K. - Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, … - 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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Implementing quotas in university admissions: An experimental analysis
Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; … - Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, … - 2012
often fail to grasp the strategic issues involved. The modified SDA algorithm significantly improves the matching for top …
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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 - Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, … - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005677956
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Genetic Codes of Mergers, Post Merger Technology Evolution and Why Mergers Fail
Cuntz, Alexander - Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, … - 2008
regimes, depending on whether firms integrate vertically or horizontally. Secondly, we describe an ideal matching pattern for …
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Preference for Randomization: Empirical and Experimental Evidence
Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; Weizsäcker, Georg - Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, … - 2013
We investigate violations of consequentialism in the form of the stochastic dominance property. The property is shared by many theories of choice and implies that the decision-maker prefers receiving the best outcome for sure over all lotteries that involve multiple outcomes. We run experiments...
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The Law of Attraction: Bilateral Search and Horizontal Heterogeneity
Hofmann, Dirk; Qari, Salmai - Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, … - 2011
We study a matching model with heterogeneous agents, nontransferable utility and search frictions. Agents differ along …
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Testing Missing at Random using Instrumental Variables
Breunig, Christoph - Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, … - 2015
This paper proposes a test for missing at random (MAR). The MAR assumption is shown to be testable given instrumental variables which are independent of response given potential outcomes. A nonparametric testing procedure based on integrated squared distance is proposed. The statistic’s...
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Brand equity – how is it affected by critical incidents and what moderates the effect
Tischer, Sven; Hildebrandt, Lutz - Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, … - 2012
To explore how occurring critical incidents affect customer-brand relations, this study measures the impact on the basis of an online experiment. For this purpose, 1,122 usable responses are gathered considering the smartphone brands of Apple and Nokia as well as different scenarios. The...
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Estimation and Inference for Varying-coefficient Models with Nonstationary Regressors using Penalized Splines
Chen, Haiqiang; Fang, Ying; Li, Yingxing - Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, … - 2013
This paper considers estimation and inference for varying-coefficient models with nonstationary regressors. We propose a nonparametric estimation method using penalized splines, which achieves the same optimal convergence rate as kernel-based methods, but enjoys computation advantages. Utilizing...
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