Die drei Länder gehörten lange Zeit zu den klassischen Zahlern im Länderfinanzausgleich. Mittlerweile hat sich ihre Finanzkraft und damit ihr Beitrag zum Länderfinanzausgleich drastisch verringert. Wie ist es dazu gekommen? Der Autor stellt dar, dass die wesentliche Ursache in der...

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...

This paper presents evidence on the development of educational attainment and its returns on the labor market in Germany in the time period 1985-2002. Returns to education are estimated using Mincer equations. We analyze microcensus data in addition to GSOEP data, which allows estimating returns...

Using register data from the IAB employment sample, this paper studies the wage structure in the German labor market throughout the years 1992{2001. Wage dispersion has generally been rising. The increase was more pronounced in East Germany and occurred predominantly in the lower part of the...