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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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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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On the costs and effectiveness of of tarjeting state employment : Germany in the 1990s and China in the 2000s
Claro, Sebastián - 2002
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What kind of shock was it? : Regional integration and structural change in Germany after unification
Burda, Michael C. (contributor) - 2007
Eastern Germany's recovery from the unification shockʺ has been characterized by deep structural change with apparent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003414225
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Mentality matters : Thorstein Veblens "Regime of Status" und Max Webers "Protestantische Ethik" aus der Sicht des (radikalen) Konservativismus ; eine Anwendung auf die ökonomischen...
Lehmann-Waffenschmidt, Marco; Böhmer, Robert - 2003
Der vorliegende Beitrag zielt darauf, eine fundierte Vorgehensweise für die Untersuchung der Frage zu entwickeln, welche Auswirkungen die mentale Verfaßtheit ökonomischen Akteure auf ihr mikroökonomisches Entscheidungs- und Wahlhandlungsverhalten hat und welche Konsequenzen sich daraus auf...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428286
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Rising wage inequality in Germany
Gernandt, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2007
wages and wage inequality in Germany. Between 1984 and 1994 wages for prime age dependent male workers increased on average … by 23 percent and the wage distribution in West Germany was fairly stable. Between 1994 and 2004 average wages rose by … about 8 percent in West Germany and 28 percent in East Germany. In this period wage inequality for prime age dependent males …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011628753
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The effect of fertility on female labor supply in a labor market with extensive informality
Tumen, Semih; Turan, Belgi - 2020
This paper presents new evidence on the causal relationship between fertility and female labor supply. We particularly focus on how informal employment affects post-fertility labor supply behavior of mothers. We employ an instrumental variable strategy based on an unused data source for twin...
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Recht, Kultur und Management in der Transformation : Perspektiven aus drei Ländern
Lang, Rainhart (contributor) - 1999
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