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La distinction reloaded : returns to education, family background, cultural and social capital in Germany

Krenz, Astrid - 2010

The German educational system finds itself being criticized by the OECD in its Programme for International Student Assessment. Family background would heavily influence children's academic achievements. A child stemming from a high class family has a 3.1 times higher chance to go to secondary...

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Services sectors' agglomeration and its interdependence with industrial agglomeration in the European Union

Krenz, Astrid - 2010

Services sectors' agglomeration in the European Union, its development over time, its driving factors and dynamic tendencies will be empirically investigated in this study. Locational gini coefficients are computed taking EU-KLEMS data for 14 European countries covering 22 services sectors over...

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Cross-country heterogeneity and endogeneity bias in life satisfaction estimations - macro- and micro-level evidence for advanced, developing and transition countries

Krenz, Astrid - 2013

The past literature found evidence for the presence of endogeneity issues due to individuals' heterogeneity and omitted time-varying variables in the relationship between income and life satisfaction on the micro-level for the UK (Powdthavee (2010)). The aim of the present contribution is to put...

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Do political institutions influence international trade? : measurement of institutions and the Long-Run effects

Krenz, Astrid - 2016

examine the long-run effects of the political institutional framework on trade for a panel of 87 countries for the period from … 1990 to 2007. We employ recent panel econometric methods for testing and estimating in the presence of non …-stationarity, investigate panel causality and use methods that are robust to slope heterogeneity. Our results imply that an improved political …

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Adjustment dynamics of countries' specialization patterns in the European Union

Krenz, Astrid - In: Applied economics letters 21 (2014) 10/12, pp. 671-674

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Firm structure and the location decision of German manufacturing firms : evidence from official firm-level data

Krenz, Astrid - 2016

This paper uses a comprehensive, official firm-level dataset for German manufacturing firms to investigate the location decision of new firm activity in the German regional economy, differentiated by firm structure. The rich regional dimension of this dataset is investigated for the first time...

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The gender gap in international trade : female-run firms and the exporter productivity premium

Krenz, Astrid - 2019

Female-run firms are less likely to be exporters although they exert positive influence in various aspects in an economy and society. With a new and comprehensive data set on manufacturing plants, I investigate the exporter productivity premium of female-run firms in Germany. The results show...

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Firm heterogeneity, productivity, and the extensive margins of trade - differences between manufacturing firms in East and West Germany

Krenz, Astrid - 2019

with and the number of goods traded) and firm productivity using a newly constructed and rich panel data set of German … trade with more countries. However, results based on panel analyses reveal that especially for East German firms the …

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La distinction reloaded: Returns to education, family background, cultural and social capital in Germany

Krenz, Astrid - 2010

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Industrial localization and countries' specialization in the European Union: An empirical investigation

Krenz, Astrid; Rübel, Gerhard - 2010

The aim of this study is to empirically investigate the development of Industrial Localization and Countries' Specialization Patterns in the European Union, to explain the driving forces behind and to find out dynamic tendencies. We extend existing research work by using a broader data set,...

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