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A new color in the picture: The impact of educational fields on fertility in Western Germany

Oppermann, Anja - 2012

parenthood of women and men in Western Germany? The German Socio Economic Panel (1984-2010) provides the data. Discrete time …

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Structural breaks, parameter stability and energy demand modeling in Nigeria

Omisakin, Olusegun A.; Adeniyi, Oluwatosin A.; … - In: International Journal of Economic Sciences and Applied … 5 (2012) 2, pp. 129-144

This paper extends previous studies in modeling and estimating energy demand functions for both gasoline and kerosene petroleum products for Nigeria from 1977 to 2008. In contrast to earlier studies on Nigeria and other developing countries, this study specifically tests for the possibility of...

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Escaping the unemployment trap: The case of East Germany

Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2007

This paper addresses the question of why prolonged regional unemployment differentials tend to persist even after their proximate causes have been reversed (e.g., after wages in the highunemployment regions have fallen relative to those in the low-unemployment regions). We suggest that the...

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Persistence in youth unemployment

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alana, Luis A. - 2012

This paper examines the degree of persistence of youth unemployment (total, male and female) in twenty-four countries by using two alternative measures: the AR coefficient and the fractional differencing parameter, based on short- and longmemory processes respectively. The evidence suggests that...

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Testing the Marshall-Lerner condition in Kenya

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alana, Luis A.; Mudida, … - 2012

In this paper we examine the Marshall-Lerner (ML) condition for the Kenyan economy. In particular, we use quarterly data on the log of real exchange rates, export-import ratio and relative (US) income for the time period 1996q1 - 2011q4, and employ techniques based on the concept of long memory...

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Persistence and cycles in the US federal funds rate

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alana, Luis A. - 2012

This paper uses long-range dependence techniques to analyse two important features of the US Federal Funds effective rate, namely its persistence and cyclical behaviour. It examines annual, monthly, bi-weekly and weekly data, from 1954 until 2010. Two models are considered. One is based on an...

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The treatment effect of attending a high-quality school and the influence of unobservables

Freier, Ronny; Storck, Johanna - 2012

analysis is based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study in which we observe children when they make their …

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Cognitive skills, gender and risk preferences

Booth, Alison L.; Katic, Pamela - 2012

In this paper we utilise data from a unique new birth-cohort study to see how the risk preferences of young people are affected by cognitive skills and gender. We find that cognitive ability (measured by the percentile ranking for university entrance at age 18) has no effect on risk preferences...

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Aging and productivity: Evidence from piece rates

Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Uusitalo, Roope - 2012

We evaluate the effects of aging on productivity using piece-rate earnings as a proxy for worker output. Our data contain the population of Finnish blue collar workers in 61 different industries during 1990-2002. A unique feature of the data is that we can observe the exact hours worked on piece...

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Parents transmit happiness along with associated values and behaviors to their children: A lifelong happiness dividend?

Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2012

grown up, moved to their own home and partnered themselves. German panel evidence shows that transmission of (un …-versa, long after the 'children' have left home. Data come from 25 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel Survey (SOEP, 1984 …-2008). SOEP is the only panel survey worldwide in which data on life satisfaction have been obtained from parents and an adequate …

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