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Imposing and testing curvature conditions on a Box-Cox function

Koebel, Bertrand M.; Falk, Martin; Laisney, François - 2000

We present a new method for imposing and testing concavity of a cost function using asymptotic least squares, which can easily be implemented even for cost functions which are nonlinear in parameters. We provide an illustration on the basis of a (generalized) Box-Cox cost function with six...

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Employment and fertility : East Germany in the 1990s

Kreyenfeld, Michaela - 2001

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What explains changes in full-time and part-time employment in Western Germany? : a new method on an old question

Klinger, Sabine; Wolf, Katja - 2008

From 1992 to 2005, part-time employment in Western Germany has grown by 82 percent, whereas full-time employment has …: Characteristics inherent in full-time or part-time employment dominantly explain changes in employment patterns in Western Germany …

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The child penalty: implications of parenthood on labour market outcomes for men and women in Germany

Feldhoff, Charlotte H. - 2021

Whilst gender inequality has been falling in the developed world, child-related gender inequality in pay has stayed constant. In this paper I use German panel data spanning across 33 years from 1984 until 2017 including over 50,000 individuals. The main contribution of this paper is the analysis...

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Changing conditions, persistent mentality : an anatomy of East German unhappiness, 1990-2016

Biermann, Philipp; Welsch, Heinz - 2019

We decompose the persistent satisfaction gap between East and West Germany into effects of objective circumstances and …

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Learning capitalism the hard way : evidence from German reunification

Triebs, Thomas P.; Tumlinson, Justin - 2016

We develop a model of firm learning in volatile markets with noisy signals and test its predictions using historical German data. Firms' forecasts improve with age. We exploit German Reunification as a natural experiment where firms in the East are treated with ignorance about the distribution...

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The value of reunification in Germany : an analysis of changes in life satisfaction

Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Shields, Michael - 2002

We quantify the value of changes in life circumstances in Germany following reunification. To this end, we develop and …

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Modeling German unification in a disequilibrium framework

Winker, Peter; Smolny, Werner; Radowski, Daniel - 1999

Unification fundamentally changed the terms of quantitative macroeconomic analysis for Germany. Two main areas … concerned are data availability for the eastern part of Germany and structural changes within the behavioural equations after … Germany. The challenge is to handle the structural break in the time series and the economic model by applying a SUR estimator …

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Individual rationality and learning : welfare expectations in East Germany post-reunification

Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Shields, Michael - 2002

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The value of reunification in Germany : an analysis of changes in life satisfaction

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