This paper proposes a new copula model known as the Lévy subordinated hierarchical Archimedean copulas (LSHAC) for multi-country mortality dependence modeling. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to apply the LSHAC model to mortality studies. Through an extensive empirical...

Few would contest that teachers are a very important determinant of whether students learn in school and how to improve teacher performance has been the focus of much policy debate in rich and poor countries. This paper examines how incentives, both pecuniary and non-pecuniary, correlate with...

Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this article examines whether gender wage differentials occur due to differences in prototypical personality traits of women and men and provides the first application of a gender wage gap decomposition on the basis of a...

This article develops a Bayesian approach for estimating panel quantile regression with binary outcomes in the presence of correlated random effects. We construct a working likelihood using an asymmetric Laplace (AL) error distribution and combine it with suitable prior distributions to obtain...

In den letzten Jahrzehnten konnte ein deutlicher Anstieg von in-work poverty in Europa beobachtet werden. Das Ziel dieser Arbeit lag in der Identifikation verschiedener Einflussfaktoren auf der personenbezogenen Ebene und struktureller Rahmenbedingungen des Wohlfahrtsstaates und Arbeitsmarktes...

The existing body of academic literature reveals that production, distribution, and consumption might be both consistently connected and geographically scattered. This requires assessing the spatial order of production–distribution–consumption cycle, within which exploring of spatial...