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Technological Change, Entry and Stock Market Dynamics: An Analysis of Transition in a Monopolistic Economy
Datta, Bipasa; Dixon, Huw D. - CESifo - 2002
technology improves. We find that there can be a U-shaped transition dynamic, so that an initial boom in share price is followed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181568
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Are Short-Lived Jobs Stepping Stones to Long-Lasting Jobs?
Cockx, Bart; Picchio, Matteo - CESifo - 2009
This paper assesses whether short-lived jobs (lasting one quarter or less and involuntarily ending in unemployment) are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051584
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State Dependence in Welfare Receipt: Transitions Before and After a Reform
Riphahn, Regina T.; Wunder, Christoph - CESifo - 2013
. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we apply dynamic multinomial logit estimators and find that state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010718526
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Heterogeneity in High Math Achievement Across Schools: Evidence from the American Mathematics Competition
Ellison, Glenn; Swanson, Ashley - CESifo - 2012
This paper explores differences in the frequency with which students from different schools reach high levels of math achievement. Data from the American Mathematics Competitions is used to produce counts of high-scoring students from more than two thousand public, coeducational, non-magnet,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877777
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Grade Retention and Unobserved Heterogeneity
Gary-Bobo, Robert J.; Gousse, Marion; Robin, Jean-Marc - CESifo - 2014
We study the treatment effect of grade retention, using a panel of French junior highschool students, taking unobserved heterogeneity and the endogeneity of grade repetitions into account. We specify a multi-stage model of human-capital accumulation with a finite number of types representing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010786743
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Right-Wing Extremism and the Well-Being of Immigrants
Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen; Thomsen, Stephan L. - CESifo - 2009
This study analyzes the effects of right-wing extremism on the well-being of immigrants based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1984 to 2006 merged with state-level information on election outcomes. The results show that the life satisfaction of immigrants is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008533995
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Trust Attitudes
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - CESifo - 2008
Recent theoretical contributions depart from the usual practice of treating individual attitude endowments as a black box, by assuming that these are shaped by the attitudes of parents and other role models. Attitudes include fundamental preferences such as risk preference, and crucial beliefs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094270
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The Minimum Wage from a Two-Sided Perspective
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis - CESifo - 2014
This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms’ job offer and workers’ job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877633
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International Trade and Unemployment: A Quantitative Framework
Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario - CESifo - 2012
changes. While employment and welfare increase in most countries, some experience higher unemployment and lower welfare. Labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877646
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Entrepreneurship, Economic Conditions, and the Great Recession
Fairlie, Robert W. - CESifo - 2013
conditions are a major determinant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase the probability … individuals who are initially not employed respond more to high local unemployment rates by starting businesses than wage … influences resulting in higher levels of business creation. Using the regression estimates for the local unemployment rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877680