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A structural approach to estimating the effect of taxation on the labor market dynamics of older workers

Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - 2009

a tax reform targeted at low income individuals on employment behavior and retirement decisions. …

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Uniqueness seeking and demand estimation in the German automobile industry

Guerzoni, Marco; Soellner, René - 2009

This paper empirically analyzes the determinants of demand in the German automobile industry. Our primary goal is to refine the existing literature on that topic by exploring the impact of uniqueness seeking behaviour of individuals on the demand schedule. Using a dataset on the segment of...

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Price transmission in the pineapple market: What role for organic fruit?

Kleemann, Linda; Effenberger, Alexandra - 2010

As consumers' demand for organic products and especially organic food grows, organic certification for tropical fruit is increasingly promoted in many developing countries. Certified organic pineapple exports only started taking off after 2005 and are rapidly increasing. The organic and...

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A computationally practical simulation estimation algorithm for dynamic panel data models with unobserved endogenous state variables

Keane, Michael P.; Sauer, Robert M. - 2009

This paper develops a simulation estimation algorithm that is particularly useful for estimating dynamic panel data … Markov model. It also implies that observed heterogeneity in education, young children and husband income are much more …

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20 years of German unification: evidence on income convergence and heterogeneity

Brück, Tilman; Peters, Heiko - 2009

on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we compare total individual income of permanent adult residents … fixed effects vector decomposition method, we estimate the gross total income difference between East and West Germans … taking unobserved heterogeneity into account. Our analysis demonstrates that the negative income gap has decreased from 33 …

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Does the choice of reference levels of education matter in the ORU earnings equation?

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the overeducation/required eduation/under-education (ORU) literature are sensitive to whether the usual or reference levels of education are measured using the Realized Matches or Worker Self-Assessment methods. The...

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The institutional context of an empirical law: the wage curve under different regimes of collective bargaining

Blien, Uwe; Dauth, Wolfgang; Schank, Thorsten; … - 2009

The wage curve identified by Blanchflower and Oswald (1994) postulates that the wage level is a decreasing function of the regional unemployment rate. In testing this hypothesis, most empirical studies have not taken into account that differences in the institutional framework may have an impact...

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How fast do wages adjust to human-capital productivity? Dynamic panel-data evidence from Belgium, Denmark and Finland

Andini, Corrado - 2009

The standard human-capital model is based on the assumption that the observed wage of an individual is equal to the monetary value of the individual net human-capital productivity, the so-called net potential wage. We argue that this assumption is rejected by the ECHP data for Belgium, Denmark...

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Do foreigners replace native immigrants? Evidence from a panel cointegration analysis

Brücker, Herbert; Fachin, Stefano; Venturini, Alessandra - 2009

This paper examines the impact of the immigration of foreigners on domestic labour mobility. Since David Card's seminal study on the regional labour market impact of the Mariel Boatlift it is controversial whether domestic labour mobility equilibrates economic conditions across cities and...

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Gambling and the use of credit: an individual and household level analysis

Brown, Sarah; Dickerson, Andy; McHardy, Jolian; Taylor, Karl - 2010

household level. While both the incidence and amount of gambling vary according to household income, the positive association … between gambling and the use of credit is remarkably stable across household income. In addition to our household level … of credit, with somewhat stronger relationships in lower income households. …

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