Dieser Beitrag untersucht theoretische und empirische Aspekte des Zusammenhangs zwischen dem Zentralisierungsgrad der Lohnverhandlungen (ZGL) und der Lohnbildung. Zuerst erfolgt eine kritische Übersicht der theoretischen und empirischen Literatur, die von der bekannten Hypothese von Calmfors...

This note is concerned with estimating censored quantile regressions (CQR). As its major contribution, a' new algorithm, called BRCENS, is developed as an adaption of the Barrodale-Roberts algorithm for the standard quantile regression problem. In a subsequent simulation study, BRCENS performs...

This paper empirically analyzes the distribution of unemployment durations in West- Germany before and after the changes during the mid 1980s in the maximum entitlement periods for unemployment benefits for elderly unemployed. The analysis is based on the comprehensive IAB employment subsample...

The Box-Cox quantile regression model using the two stage method introduced by Chamberlain (1994) and Buchinsky (1995) provides an attractive extension of linear quantile regression techniques. However, a major numerical problem exists when implementing this method which has not been addressed...