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Bloemen, Hans G.; Stancanelli, Elena G.F. - 2008

simultaneously specifies three time-use choices -paid work, childcare, and housework- and wage and employment equations for each …

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Does Innovation Stimulate Employment? A Firm-Level Analysis Using Comparable Micro-Data From Four European Countries

Harrison, Rupert; Jaumandreu Balanzo, Jordi; Mairesse, … - 2008

This paper studies the impact of process and product innovations introduced by firms on employment growth in these … firms. A simple model that relates employment growth to process innovations and to the growth of sales separately due to …

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Disability and Work: the Role of Health Shocks and Childhood Circumstances

Lindeboom, Maarten; Nozal, Ana Llena; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2006

This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history … observed disability rates result from gradual deteriorations in health. We find no direct effect of health shocks on employment … the employment rate at age 40 with around 21 percentage points. Our results show that early childhood conditions are …

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The effective average tax burden in the European Union and the USA: a computer-based calculation and comparison with the model of the European tax analyzer

Jacobs, Otto H.; Spengel, Christoph - 1999

In this paper we present a computer-based model (so-called European Tax Analyzer) for the international computation and comparison of company tax burdens. The methodology follows the forward-looking concepts for the measurement of effective average tax rates (EATR) on the basis of a model-firm....

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International spillovers and feedback: Modelling in a disequilibrium framework

Winker, Peter; Beck, Martin - 2000

German unifikation hit the West German economy in a prosperous and appeared as a huge demand shock at least for the first few quarters. This combination resulted in a major increase of imports from the main trading partners of West Germany, which may have helped to cushion recessionary trends...

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Modeling Asset Returns: A Comparison of Theoretical and Empirical Models

Schröder, Michael; Lüders, Erik - 2004

large economies, USA, United Kingdom, Germany, France and Japan. The empirical results show that although the pure NGARCH …

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International Stock Return Predictability Under Model Uncertainty

Schrimpf, Andreas - 2008

This paper examines return predictability when the investor is uncertain about the right state variables. A novel feature of the model averaging approach used in this paper is to account for finite-sample bias of the coefficients in the predictive regressions. Drawing on an extensive...

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Interaction between Supply and Demand Shocks in Production and Employment

den Butter, F.A.G.; Koopman, S.J. - 1997

A major aim of recent empirical modelling of the business cycle isto identify the relative importance of aggregate supply and demandshocks. Supply or technology shocks are associated with permanent(structural) effects on economic activity whereas demand shocks arerelated to temporary (cyclical)...

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Comparative Analysis of Litigation Systems: An Auction-Theoretic Approach

Baye, Michael R.; Kovenock, Dan; de Vries, Casper G. - 2000

A simple auction-theoretic framework is used to examine symmetric litigation environments where the legal ownership of a disputed asset is unknown to the court. The court observes only the quality of the case presented by each party, and awards the asset to the party presenting the best case....

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The Stochastic Volatility in Mean Model

Koopman, Siem Jan; Uspensky, Eugenie Hol - 2000

In this paper we present an exact maximum likelihood treatment forthe estimation of a Stochastic Volatility in Mean(SVM) model based on Monte Carlo simulation methods. The SVM modelincorporates the unobserved volatility as anexplanatory variable in the mean equation. The same extension...

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