their smoking choices. I find that US elderly tend to over-emphasize the importance of their genetic makeup but … underestimate the influence of their health-related choices, such as smoking, on their longevity. This finding can partially explain … effects of their genes and health-related choices on their longevity, then the average smoking rate for the age group analyzed …

How can long-term unemployment be reduced by policy measures of the government? In this paper a growth-matching … geeignete Politikmaßnahmen des Staates reduziert werden? In diesem Artikel wird ein Wachstums-Matching-Modell entwickelt, das …

of growth attributable to technical progress is evaluated in a growth-matching-model with heterogeneous jobless workers … Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit und der Wachstumsrate des technischen Fortschritts wird in einem Wachstums-Matching-Modell mit heterogenen …

search and matching model of the labor market. All workers, irrespective of their labor force status can commit crimes and …

This dissertation is a collection of three stand-alone research papers. Thereby, the class of local polynomial matching … estimators is the central object of investigation. The first essay concentrates on applying local polynomial matching methods in … algorithms for the matching estimator. …

and incentive contracts in a labour market characterized by search frictions and matching. There exists a large body of … Arbeitskräfteumlauf und Anreizverträge in einem dynamischen Search-und-Matching-Arbeitsmarktmodell beschäftigen. Das grundlegende Modell …