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Heterogeneity in the Intergenerational Transmission of Alcohol Consumption – A Quantile Regression Approach

Schmidt, Christoph M.; Tauchmann, Harald - 2010

. In addition, the intergenerational transmission of alcohol consumption exhibits gender-specific heterogeneity …

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Active labor market policy in Germany : is there a successful policy strategy?

Fertig, Michael - 2002

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Brother Sun, Sister Moon : The Lunar Cycle, Sunspots and the Frequency of Births

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Heining, Jörg; … - 2010

Based on multivariate linear regression models, we analyze the effect of the lunar cycle and the number of sunspots occurring on a particular day on the number of births using social security data and controlling for a number of other potential confounders. The daily number of births between...

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The Empirical Assessment of Technology Differences : Comparing the Comparable

Frondel, Manuel; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2015

This paper compares technologies across space and time on the basis of factual and counterfactual substitution elasticities and argues that differences in estimated substitution elasticities should be decomposed into two counterfactual components. While the first component is designed to...

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Active Labor Market Policy in Germany : Is There a Successful Policy Strategy?

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Schneider, Hilmar - 2021

Each year Germany and many other developed economies spend tens of billions of Euros on active measures of employment … offices in Germany. To this end, we analyze ALMP in Germany in a spatially augmented regression framework. Our results suggest …

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The Wage Performance of Immigrant Women : Full-Time Jobs, Part-Time Jobs, and the Role of Selection

Dustmann, Christian; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2021

This paper contrasts labour participation behaviour and wages of native and immigrant women. Since the impact of family structure on labor supply differs between natives and immigrants, we explicitly distinguish between part-time and full-time jobs. The choice of jobs is accounted for by an...

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Aggregate-Level Migration Studies as a Tool for Forecasting Future Migration Streams

Schmidt, Christoph M.; Fertig, Michael - 2021

Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address aggregate-level prediction problems is to fit ad hoc specifications to historical data, and to...

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Industry Wage Differentials Revisited : A Longitudinal Comparison of Germany and USA

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2021

In this paper, the inter-industry wage structure in West Germany and USA is compared using the German Socio … Population Survey (CPS) from 1984 to 1996. Using a sample of prime age full-time employed males from the respective datasets, it …

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Money for Nothing and Your Chips for Free? The Anatomy of the Pc Wage Differential

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2021

In this paper, the role of the computer at the workplace will be examined in determining the wage structure in Germany … random effects and fixed effects estimator were run in the wage estimation. We confirm the results that Entorf and Kramarz … (1997) had for France, that in Germany the coefficient for computer usage at the workplace did not remain stable and …

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Tobacco and Alcohol : Complements or Substitutes? A Structural Model Approach

Tauchmann, Harald; Göhlmann, Silja; Requate, Tilman; … - 2021

explanatory variables. This approach is applied to German survey data. Our estimation results suggest that a reduction in tobacco …

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