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Using a Mincer-type wage function, we estimate cohort effects in the returns to education for West German workers born between 1925 and 1974. The main problem to be tackled in the specification is to separately identify cohort, experience, and possibly also age and year effects in the returns. For women, we find a large and robust decline in schooling premia: In the private sector, the returns to a ...
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Applied Economics
38 (2006), 10, S. 1135-1152
| Bernhard Boockmann, Viktor Steiner
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The paper analyses the determinants of household work contracted in the German shadow economy. The German socio-economic household panel, which enumerates casual domestic employment, is used to estimate the demand for such household work. The regressors include regional wage rates, household income and several control variables for household composition. It is found that the demand for household work ...
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Applied Economics
38 (2006), 8, S. 899-911
| Tilman Brück, John P. Haisken-DeNew, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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Recent studies suggest that US and other developed economies have become considerably stabilized in terms of volatility since the mid-1980s (Stock and Watson, 2002). This study models the structural break in volatility using a dynamic factor model with two state variables: one capturing cyclical fluctuations and another reflecting volatility decline. The new model confirms a one-time volatility reduction ...
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Applied Economics Letters
13 (2006), 7, S. 417-422
| Konstantin A. Kholodilin, Vincent Wenxiong Yao
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The present study tests for the existence of multicointegration between real per capita private consumption expenditure and real per capita disposable personal income in the USA. In doing so, the study exploits the fact that the flows of disposable income and consumption expenditure on the one hand, and the stock of consumers' wealth, which can be considered as cumulative past discrepancies between ...
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Applied Economics
38 (2006), 7, S. 819-833
| Boriss Siliverstovs
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This paper investigates regional convergence of labour productivity and income per capita in the period 1992-2000 for the unified Germany using spatial econometric techniques. Up to now only first-order spatial models have been employed in investigating convergence across regions and countries. An exploratory data analysis reveals, however, that the fundamental variables of the convergence equation ...
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Regional Studies
40 (2006), 7, S. 755-767
| Reinhold Kosfeld, Hans-Friedrich Eckey, Christian Dreger
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probability and severity of punishment - results in a reduction of crime due to deterrence. What appears to be a simple and straightforward hypothesis turns out to be a demanding task for empirical examination because "crime" is composed of many different offence categories and expected punishment is influenced by the actions and decisions of different institutions such as police, public prosecutor's ...
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Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
226 (2006), 6, S. 687-714
| Hannes Spengler
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Im Zuge des GKV-Modernisierungsgesetzes wird seit dem 1. 1. 2004 eine sog. Praxisgebühr von 10 Euro pro Quartal für ambulante Arzt- und Zahnarztbesuche erhoben. Neben einem Beitrag zur Konsolidierung der Finanzlage der GKV sollte die Praxisgebühr auch eine Verhaltensänderung der Versicherten bewirken. Der Beitrag zeigt auf, dass die Zahl der Arztbesuche im Jahre 2004 im Vergleich zum Jahr 2003 signifikant ...
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Medizinische Klinik
101 (2006), 6, S. 476-483
| Markus M. Grabka, Jonas Schreyögg, Reinhard Busse
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This study examines the export-led growth hypothesis using annual time series data from Chile. It addresses the problem of specification bias under which previous studies have suffered and focuses on the impact of manufactured and primary exports on the economic growth. In order to investigate if and how manufactured and primary exports affect economic growth via increases in productivity, the study ...
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Applied Economics Letters
13 (2006), 5, S. 319-324
| Boriss Siliverstovs, Dierk Herzer
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We analyse the effectiveness of fiscal policy rules for business cycle stabilisation in a monetary union using a quarterly macro-econometric model of Germany. The simulations compare a deficit target and an expenditure target under a range of supply, demand and fiscal shocks. Their effects are evaluated by their impact on prices and output. The analysis demonstrates that in general the deficit target ...
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Journal of Policy Modeling
28 (2006), 4, S. 357-369
| Tilman Brück, Rudolf Zwiener
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It is European Commission policy to charge modes of transport according to the marginal social cost of their use of the infrastructure, including environmental costs. However, progress in implementing this process has been slow, partly because of the difficulty of measuring and valuing these costs. This need has led to a great deal of research in this area in recent years. The paper presents the results ...
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Transport Reviews
26 (2006), 4, S. 389-415
| Peter Bickel, Rainer Friedrich, Heike Link, Louise Stewart, Chris Nash