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Active labor market policy in Germany : is there a successful policy strategy?

Fertig, Michael - 2002

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Tobacco and alcohol: complements or substitutes? : a structural model approach to insufficient price variation in individual-level data

Tauchmann, Harald; Lenz, Silja; Requate, Tilman; … - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 45 (2013) 1, pp. 539-566

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Beyond GDP and back : what is the value-added by additional components of welfare measurement?

New, Sonja C. de; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2011

Recently, building on the highly polarizing Stiglitz report, a growing literature suggests that statistical offices and applied researchers explore other aspects of human welfare apart from material well-being, such as job security, crime, health, environmental factors and subjective...

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Active Labor Market Policy in Germany : Is There a Successful Policy Strategy?

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Schneider, Hilmar - 2021

Each year Germany and many other developed economies spend tens of billions of Euros on active measures of employment … offices in Germany. To this end, we analyze ALMP in Germany in a spatially augmented regression framework. Our results suggest …

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The Wage Performance of Immigrant Women : Full-Time Jobs, Part-Time Jobs, and the Role of Selection

Dustmann, Christian; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2021

This paper contrasts labour participation behaviour and wages of native and immigrant women. Since the impact of family structure on labor supply differs between natives and immigrants, we explicitly distinguish between part-time and full-time jobs. The choice of jobs is accounted for by an...

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Aggregate-Level Migration Studies as a Tool for Forecasting Future Migration Streams

Schmidt, Christoph M.; Fertig, Michael - 2021

Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address aggregate-level prediction problems is to fit ad hoc specifications to historical data, and to...

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Industry Wage Differentials Revisited : A Longitudinal Comparison of Germany and USA

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2021

In this paper, the inter-industry wage structure in West Germany and USA is compared using the German Socio …

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Money for Nothing and Your Chips for Free? The Anatomy of the Pc Wage Differential

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2021

In this paper, the role of the computer at the workplace will be examined in determining the wage structure in Germany … random effects and fixed effects estimator were run in the wage estimation. We confirm the results that Entorf and Kramarz … (1997) had for France, that in Germany the coefficient for computer usage at the workplace did not remain stable and …

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Heterogeneity in the intergenerational transmission of alcohol consumption : a quantile regression approach

Schmidt, Christoph M.; Tauchmann, Harald - 2010

This paper addresses the question of whether the effect of parental drinking on children’s later consumption of alcohol - which is frequently found to be of positive sign - exhibits a certain pattern of heterogeneity. In particular, if this effect is more prominent in the upper tail than...

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The German productivity paradox : facts and explanations

Elstner, Steffen; Feld, Lars P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2018

Despite massive digitization efforts, the German economy has experienced a marked slowdown in its productivity growth. This paper analyzes the reasons behind this disconcerting development. A major factor is the turnaround of the labor market that commenced around 2005. The successful...

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