The authors provide evidence on the impact of foreign ownership on labor market outcomes analyzing pay differences between foreign-acquired and domestically owned firms. For this purpose, they use firm-level data from 16 European countries over the time period 19992006. Combing propensity score...

The Winter World Masters Games (WWMGs) are a large sports event for 30+-year-old athletes. As there are neither competitive qualification requirements for participants, nor entrance fees for spectators, the event can be considered as a participatory sports tourism event rather than a spectator...

Im Beitrag wird der Anteil von Erstimpfungen zwischen deutschen und österreichischen Grenzregionen verglichen. Während in Deutschland Maßnahmen zur Erhöhung der Impfbereitschaft erst spät diskutiert wurden, hat Österreich im Lauf des Novembers bereits entsprechende Maßnahmen ergriffen...

This paper assesses the widely held belief that damages for pain and suffering are random or arbitrary. In detail, we investigate whether damages for pain and suffering are systematically affected by individual-, injury- and procedural-specific characteristics and how important these factors are...

This paper investigates whether fiscal competition affects the structure of public spending, where theory predicts a shift from residential public goods to industrial public goods. We propose an empirical model that specifically accounts for the strategic nature and endogeneity of fiscal...

Die Steuerreform 2000 brachte in Österreich auch Neuerungen im Bereich der Unternehmensbesteuerung. Aus steuersystematischer Sicht ist insbesondere die Einführung der Zinsbereinigung des Eigenkapitalzuwachses zu erwähnen. Ausgehend von einer Bestandsaufnahme zur gegenwärtigen...

This paper discusses two alternative two-part models for fractional response variables that are defined as ratios of integers. The first two-part model assumes a Binomial distribution and known group size. It nests the one-part fractional response model proposed by Papke and Wooldridge (1996)...

The Heckman sample selection model relies on the assumption of normal and homoskedastic disturbances. However, before considering more general, alternative semiparametric models that do not need the normality assumption, it seems useful to test this assumption. Following Meijer and Wansbeek...

This paper replicates the estimates of a fractional response model for share data reported in the seminal paper of Leslie E. Papke and Jeffrey M. Wooldridge published in the Journal of Applied Econometrics 11(6), 1996, pp.619-632. We have been able to replicate all of the reported estimation...