The recent economic policy debate in Germany emphasizes the impact of globalization of the world economy on the German labor market. This paper provides an empirical analysis of the relationship between trade and the labor market in West Germany for the period from 1970 until German...

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...