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This paper investigates the effect of ethnicity on time spent on secondary household production, work and leisure activities employing the 2000 UK Time Use Survey. We find that, unconditionally, white females manage to "stretch" their time the most by almost four additional hours per day and non-white men "stretch" their time the least. The three secondary activities most often combined with other ...
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Review of Economics of the Household
9 (2011), 2, S. 181-206
| Anzelika Zaiceva, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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We employ covariance structure models to decompose the cross-sectional variance of male wages in Germany into its permanent and transitory parts. We find that the steep growth of cross-sectional inequality during the early 2000s is predominantly driven by transitory factors.
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Economics Letters
113 (2011), 2, S. 143-146
| Michal Myck, Richard Ochmann, Salmai Qari
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Since 1996 regional rail passenger services in Germany have been subject to franchising. The franchising framework is characterised by a strong decentralisation of responsibilities, a considerable degree of freedom for the responsible authorities regarding contract design, a sound financial basis for awarding contracts, and the free choice of authorities between tendering procedures and direct awarding ...
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International Journal of Transport Economics
38 (2011), 2, S. 173-200
| Heike Link, Rico Merkert
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We examined measurement invariance and age-related robustness of a short 15-item Big Five Inventory (BFI-S) of personality dimensions, which is well suited for applications in large-scale multidisciplinary surveys. The BFI-S was assessed in three different interviewing conditions: computer-assisted or paper-assisted face-to-face interviewing, computer-assisted telephone interviewing, and a self-administered ...
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Behavior Research Methods
43 (2011), 2, S. 548-567
| Frieder R. Lang, Dennis John, Oliver Lüdtke, Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner
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In this paper we investigate the causal effect of years of schooling on health and health-related behavior in West Germany. We apply an instrumental variables approach using as natural experiments several changes in compulsory schooling laws between 1949 and 1969. These law changes generate exogenous variation in years of schooling both across states and over time. We find evidence for a strong and ...
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Journal of Health Economics
30 (2011), 2, S. 340-354
| Daniel Kemptner, Hendrik Jürges, Steffen Reinhold
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This paper compares the mixed-data sampling (MIDAS) and mixed-frequency VAR (MF-VAR) approaches to model specification in the presence of mixed-frequency data, e.g. monthly and quarterly series. MIDAS leads to parsimonious models which are based on exponential lag polynomials for the coefficients, whereas MF-VAR does not restrict the dynamics and can therefore suffer from the curse of dimensionality. ...
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International Journal of Forecasting
27 (2011), 2, S. 529-542
| Vladimir Kuzin, Massimiliano Marcellino, Christian Schumacher
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Traditional specification testing does not always improve subsequent inference. We demonstrate by means of computer experiments under which circumstances, and how severely, data-driven model selection can destroy the size properties of subsequent parameter tests, if they are used without adjusting for the model-selection step. The investigated models are representative of macroeconometric and microeconometric ...
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Empirical Economics
41 (2011), 2, S. 359-372
| Matei Demetrescu, Uwe Hassler, Vladimir Kuzin
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The effects of intergovernmental fiscal arrangements on variation in regional economic growth are analyzed for Russia, a country with large cross-regional differences and considerable fiscal redistribution. Moreover, fiscal reforms implemented in the first half of the 2000s, which to some extent followed scientific advice, make analysis of this case particularly interesting. We observe that postreform ...
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Eastern European Economics
49 (2011), 2, S. 5-29
| Lev Freinkman, Konstantin A. Kholodilin,Ulrich Thießen
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Motivated by the Bayesian framework, we explore terrorism risk perception differences across European countries. Perception variation is explained by the long-term terrorism countries face, while the cyclical part of terrorism does not seem to play any role.
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Economics Letters
112 (2011), 2, S. 195-197
| Konstantinos Drakos, Cathérine Müller
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This paper examines the importance of different economic sentiments for the Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) during the transition process. We first analyze the importance of economic confidence with respect to the CEECs' financial markets. Since the integration of formerly strongly-regulated markets into global markets can also lead to an increase in the dependence of the CEECs' economies ...
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Review of International Economics
19 (2011), 1, S. 137-157
| Joscha Beckmann, Ansgar Belke, Michael Kühl