Search Results - subject:"quantile regression"

Demographic, Residential, and Socioeconomic Effects on the Distribution of 19th Century African-American Stature

Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2008

The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in the economic literature, and heights are related with vitamin D. Although African-Americans and whites have the genetic ability to reach similar terminal statures, 19th century blacks were consistently shorter...

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Public-Private Wage Gap in Australia: Variation Along the Distribution

Cai, Lixin; Liu, Amy Y.C. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008

(HILDA) survey, this study applies quantile regression models to examine whether the sectoral wage effect varies along the …

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Economic integration and mature portfolios

Christelis, Dimitris; Georgarakos, Dimitris; Haliassos, … - Center for Financial Studies - 2008

This paper documents and studies sources of international differences in participation and holdings in stocks, private businesses, and homes among households aged 50+ in the US, England, and eleven continental European countries, using new internationally comparable, household-level data. With...

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Union density and varieties of coverage: the anatomy of union wage effects in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten; Lembcke, Alexander - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining coverage is much higher than union density; and not all employees in a covered firm are necessarily covered. This institutional setup suggests to distinguish explicitly union...

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Union Density and Varieties of Coverage: The Anatomy of Union Wage Effects in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten; Lembcke, Alexander C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Classification: J31, J51, J52 Keywords: union density, collective bargaining coverage, wage structure, quantile regression … . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 4.4 Quantile Regression Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 5 Conclusions 20 References 22 … A German Structure of Earnings Survey 2001 30 B Standard Errors for Quantile Regression with Sampling Weights and …

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Income Inequality and Education from ECHP data

Lilla, Marco - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali, Facoltà … - 2008

This paper analyses income inequality and its changes over the period 1993-2000 for a set of 13 Countries in European Community Household Panel (ECHP) survey. Focusing on wages and incomes of workers in general, inequality is related to education as a proxy of individual abilities, skills....

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Union Density and Varieties of Coverage: The Anatomy of Union Wage Effects in Germany

Lembcke, Alexander C.; Kohn, Karsten; Fitzenberger, Bernd - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

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Market and Technology Access Through Firm Acquisitions: Beyond One Size Fits All

Hussinger, Katrin; Grimpe, Christoph - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

Firm acquisitions have been shown to serve as a way to gain access to international markets, technological assets, products or other valuable resources of the target firm. Given this heterogeneity of takeover motivations and the skewness of the distribution of the deal value we show whether and...

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The Determinants of Child Weight and Height in Sri Lanka: A Quantile Regression Approach

Aturupane, Harsha; Deolalikar, Anil B.; Gunewardena, Dileni - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2008

Reducing child malnutrition is a key goal of most developing countries. To combat child malnutrition with the right set of interventions, policymakers need to have a better understanding of its economic, social and policy determinants. While there is a large literature that investigates the...

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Development of Wage Inequality for Natives and Immigrants in Germany: Evidence from Quantile Regression and Decomposition

Peters, Heiko - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008

distribution using quantile regression. My database is the German socio-economic panel for the period 1984-2006. I find a higher …

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