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Education and Unemployment: A French-German Comparison

Lauer, Charlotte - 2003

This paper analyses the link between educational attainment and unemployment risk in a French-German comparison, based … on a discrete time competing risks hazard rate model applied to comparable microdata sets. The unemployment risk is … broken down into the risk of entering unemployment and the risk, once unemployed, of not getting reemployed. The paper …

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New Estimates of the Duration and Risk of Unemployment for West-Germany

Wilke, Ralf A. - 2004

This paper analyzes changes in the risk of unemployment and changes in the distribution of unemployment duration for …

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Education, Gender and Earnings in France and Germany: Level and Dispersion Effects

Lauer, Charlotte - 2004

uncertainty of earnings. General qualifications are found to increase the earnings risk, vocational one to reduce it. More …, they can - more than men - reduce this risk by investing in their education. …

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Uncertainty of outcome versus reputation: empirical evidence for the First German Football Division

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Stadtmann, Georg - 1999

This paper analyses the determination of match attendance in the German premier football league by applying models derived from Peel/Thomas (1992) and Janssens/Késenne (1987). Additionally we develop an improved version, where we incorporate the supporter clubs and the weather conditions as...

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Investment opportunities in Central and Eastern European equity markets: an econometric examination of the risk-return relationships for western investors

Schröder, Michael - 2000

This study focuses on the diversification benefits of the most developed equity markets of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). To evaluate these benefits of diversification we use so-called spanning tests based on a stochastic discount factor approach and estimated by General Methods of Moments...

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Venture capital and internationalization

Schertler, Andrea; Tykvová, Tereza - 2009

Cross-border investments represent a substantial share of venture capital activities. We use a new and comprehensive dataset on worldwide investments to analyze the internationalization of venture capital financing. Our results from the perspectives of (i) venture capitalists, (ii) portfolio...

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Venture capital and internationalization

Schertler, Andrea; Tykvová, Tereza - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

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Map Intersection Based Merging Schemes for Administrative Data Sources and an Application to Germany

Arntz, Melanie; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2005

In many situations the applied researcher wants to combine different data sources without knowing the exact link and merging rule. This paper introduces a theoretical framework how two different regional administrative data sources can be merged. It presents different merging schemes based on...

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Empirical determinants of employee resistance against innovations

Zwick, Thomas - 2000

Employee resistance against innovations is a virulent phenomenon and there is a broad theoretical literature on its determinants. The empirical evidence is scarce, however, and mainly provides descriptive evidence on the incidence of the phenomenon and concentrates on the effectiveness of change...

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The Effect of Early Noncognitive Skills on Social Outcomes in Adolescence

Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred - 2008

achievements, health risk behavior, delinquency and autonomy as adolescent. We investigate this issue using a longitudinal … epidemiological cohort study of 384 children at risk from the Rhine-Neckar Region in Germany. Our results indicate that noncognitive …

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