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This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data from the IAB-establishment panel survey and the files of the employment statistics register for the year 1995, input shares derived from a generalised Leontief cost function are...
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This paper presents a general equilibrium assignment model of workers to tasks with endogenous human capital formation and multidimensionality of skills. The model has 2 key features. First, skills are endogenous and multidimensional. Second, two types of assignment occur, workers self-select...
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Beschäftigungsverhältnisse durch Arbeitsgelegenheiten ersetzen ('Substitution') oder dass aufgrund von Wettbewerbsnachteilen und Auftragseinbußen …. However, there is a certain risk of within-firm substitution and between-firm displacement of regular employment by One …-Euro-Jobs. The aim of the study is to identify potential substitution effects in estab-lishments that participate in this job …
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In this paper, we use a recent policy change in the Netherlands to study how changes in search requirements for the older unemployed affect their transition rates to employment, early retirement and sickness/disability benefits. The reform, becoming effective on January 1st 2004, required the...
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Using an extensive longitudinal dataset extracted from the Norwegian Prescription Database (NorPD) containing all prescriptions written in the period January 2004 to June 2007, we selected two particular drugs (chemical substances) used against cholesterol. The two brand-name products on the...
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This paper shows that, counter-intuitively, a higher elasticity of substitution in model production function can lead … fact that assuming a higher elasticity of substitution requires a recalibration of the production function parameters to …
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Drug consumption is a voluntary decision based on preexisting situational contexts, social events, personal traits and cultural circumstances. Because of this, drug consumption is not pathological but rather normal and ubiquitous. It is only as a result of persecution by the authorities of...
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information on product availability. Our model allows for flexible substitution patterns, which are based on utility maximization …
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Empirische und Theoretische Beiträge zum Thema SubstitutionDer thematische Schwerpunkt dieser Dissertation besteht in derökonometrischen Schätzung von Produktionsfunktionen (primaler Ansatz)beziehungsweise den dazu dualen Kostenfunktionen (dualer Ansatz) zum Zweckeder Bestimmung von...
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compared: one policy neglecting product substitution, and a new policy that decides on order quantities for all products … simultaneously meanwhile anticipating stock-outbased substitution. Both policies are analysed by simulation-based optimization … the case of one-way substitution a heuristic search procedure. The heuristic finds (nearly) optimal parameter values …
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