Querschnittsdaten aus benachbarten Raumgebieten, wie in der Regionalökonomie verwendet, weisen neben Heteroskedastie oft auch gegenseitige Abhängigkeiten auf. Die wechselseitige Beeinflussung wird in der raumstrukturellen Ökonometrie (Spatial Econometrics) meist explizit durch Autokorrelation...

When making decisions, agents tend to make use of decisions others have made in similar situations. Ignoring this behavior in empirical models can be interpreted as a problem of omitted variables and may seriously bias parameter estimates and harm inference. We suggest a possibility of...

In Germany, the skill structure of wages remained stable in the last two decades while employment of the low skilled deteriorated considerably relative to employment of the high skilled. This paper analyses the impact of technical progress on the skill structure of employment and wages by means...

Querschnittsdaten aus benachbarten Raumgebieten, wie in der Regionalökonomie verwendet, weisen neben Heteroskedastie oft auch gegenseitige Abhängigkeiten auf. Aufgrund des geringen Bekanntheitsgrades der Raumstrukturellen Ökonometrie wird es häufig versäumt, die wechselseitige Beeinflussung...

The German apprenticeship training system is generally acknowledged to solve the youth unemployment problem prevalent in many European countries by providing on-the-job training that often leads into subsequent regular employment within the training firms. Little attention has been paid to those...