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New firms and labor market entrants : is there a wage penalty for employment in new firms?
Nyström, Kristina; Elvung, Gulzat Zhetibaeva - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 43 (2014) 2, pp. 399-410
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The success of bank mergers revisited : an assessment based on a matching strategy
Behr, Andreas; Heid, Frank - In: Journal of empirical finance 18 (2011) 1, pp. 117-135
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Returns to continuous training in Germany : new evidence from propensity score matching estimators
Beckmann, Michael (contributor);  … - 2007
The present paper examines the wage effects of continuous training programs using individual-level data from the German Socio Economic Panel (GSOEP). In order to account for selectivity in training participation we estimate average treatment effects (ATE and ATT) of general and firm-specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003469881
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Human capital investments in children: A comparative analysis of the role of parent-child shared time in selected countries
Österbacka, Eva; Merz, Joachim; Zick, Cathleen D. - 2010
Parents invest in their children's human capital in several ways. We investigate the extent to which the levels and composition of parent-child time varies across countries with different welfare regimes: Finland, Germany and the United States. We test the hypothesis of parentchild time as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290473
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Human capital investments in children: A comparative analysis of the role of parent-child shared time in selected countries
Österbacka, Eva; Merz, Joachim; Zick, Cathleen D. - 2010
Parents invest in their children's human capital in several ways. We investigate the extent to which the levels and composition of parent-child time varies across countries with different welfare regimes: Finland, Germany and the United States. We test the hypothesis of parentchild time as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272656
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Changes in hospital efficiency after privatization
Tiemann, Oliver; Schreyögg, Jonas - 2011
We investigated the effects of privatization on hospital efficiency in Germany. To do so, we obtained bootstrapped DEA … efficiency scores in the first stage of our analysis and subsequently employed a difference-in-difference matching approach … associated with an increase in efficiency of between 3.2 and 5.4%. We defined four alternative post-privatization periods and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010310631
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Is Posner right? : an empirical test of the Posner argument for transferring health spending from old women to old men
Schwarze, Johannes; Wunder, Christoph - 2010
Posner (1995) proposes the redistribution of health spending from old women to old men to equalize life expectancy. His argument is based on the assumption that the woman's utility is higher if her husband is alive. Using self-reported satisfaction measures from a long-running German panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826563
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Does job loss make you smoke and gain weight?
Marcus, Jan - 2012
This paper estimates the effect of involuntary job loss on smoking behavior and body weight using German Socio-Economic Panel Study data. Baseline nonsmokers are more likely to start smoking due to job loss, while smokers do not intensify their smoking. Job loss increases body weight slightly,...
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Essays on banks' tax response
Merz, Julia Anna - 2015
This thesis consists of three essays examining banks’ tax response. The first essay Tax vs. Regulation Policy and the Location of Financial Sector FDI is co-authored with Prof. Dr. Michael Overesch, Chair of Business Taxation at the University of Cologne and Prof. Dr. Georg Wamser, Chair of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429454
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Investment crowding-out : firm-level evidence from Germany
Ciaian, Pavel; Kancs, D'Artis; Michalek, Jerzy - 2015
The main objective of the present paper is to estimate the extent to which firm investment is substituted (crowded-out) by investment support policies granted under the EU Rural Development Programme (RDP). In the empirical analyses we employ the difference-in-difference propensity score...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011285428