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Beyond the business cycle : factors driving aggregate mortality rates
Hanewald, Katja (contributor) - 2008
-economic and ecological factors as explanatory variables. Germany is chosen as an indicative example for other industrialized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003693261
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Product policy and the East-West productivity gap
Görzig, Bernd; Gornig, Martin; Voshage, Ramona; … - 2009
product policy. We analyse these questions with a unique data set provided by Statistics Germany that contains both product …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003905583
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Lee-Carter and the macroeconomy
Hanewald, Katja - 2009
Using data for six OECD countries, this paper studies the effect of macroeconomic conditions on the mortality index kt in the well-known Lee-Carter model. Significant correlations are found with real GDP growth rates in Australia, Canada, and the United States, and with unemployment rate changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003796260
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Explaining regional unemployment differences in Germany : a spatial panel data analysis
Lottmann, Franziska - 2012
the data. Our study covers the whole of Germany as well as East andWest Germany separately. We exploit district-level data … ; Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009511323
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How does entry regulation influence entry into self-employment and occupational mobility?
Prantl, Susanne; Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2009
differences between regulated occupations and unregulated occupations in East Germany to the corresponding differences in West … Germany after reunification. Consistent with our expectations, we find that entry regulation reduces entry into selfemployment … and occupational mobility after reunification more in regulated occupations in East Germany than in West Germany. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850715
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TFP convergence in German states since reunification : evidence and explanations
Burda, Michael C.; Severgnini, Battista - 2015
A quarter-century after reunification, labor productivity in eastern Germany continues to lag systematically behind the …, capital intensity in eastern Germany, especially in industry, has overshot values in the West, casting doubt on the embodied …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437754
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What kind of shock was it? : regional integration and structural change in Germany after unification
Burda, Michael C. (contributor) - 2006
Eastern Germany's recovery from the "unification shock" has been characterized by deep structural change - with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003402791
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The economics of German unif ication after twenty-five years : lessons for Korea
Burda, Michael C.; Weder, Mark - 2017
between East and West Germany declined at a speed not far from empirical estimates of the neoclassical growth model, yet … from those found within West Germany, and net migration has ceased. On this human metric, German unification has been an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011738775
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Biases in estimates of the smoking wage penalty
Anger, Silke (contributor); Kvasnicka, Michael (contributor) - 2006
Empirical studies on the earnings effects of tobacco use have found significant wage penalties attached to smoking. We produce evidence that suggests that these estimates are significantly upward biased. The bias arises from a general failure in the literature to control for the past smoking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003402834
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Understanding West German economic growth in the 1950s
Eichengreen, Barry; Ritschl, Albrecht - 2008
We evaluate explanations for why Germany grew so quickly in the 1950s. The recent literature has emphasized convergence … ; productivity ; Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003796129