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DIW Discussion Papers 595 / 2006
This study develops a time series model of Turkish migration to Germany for the period 1963-2004 using the cointegration technique. A single cointegrating relation between the migration flow variable and the relative income ratio between Germany and Turkey, the unemployment rates in Germany and Turkey, and the trade variable, that captures intensity of bilateral economic cooperation, is found. By including ...
2006| Sule Akkoyunlu, Boriss Siliverstovs
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DIW Discussion Papers 594 / 2006
We investigate the effects of regional and industry-wide foreign presence and foreign direct investment (FDI) on export volumes of Ukrainian manufacturing firms using unpublished panel data from 1996-2000. Foreign presence through FDI may have negative competition effects on domestic firms' performance while, at the same time, domestic firms' productivity may be increased by technology transfer or ...
2006| Stefan Lutz, Oleksandr Talavera, Sang-Min Park
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DIW Discussion Papers 593 / 2006
This paper examines the implication of the move to CAPI for data quality by analyzing the conversion from PAPI to CAPI of a subsample of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) which was done within an experimental design. The 2000 addresses for the sample E of SOEP were split into two subsamples E1 and E2 with the same structure using twin - sample points. Each of the 125 sample points contained 16 ...
2006| Jörg-Peter Schräpler, Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner
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DIW Discussion Papers 592 / 2006
In this paper we investigate how the expulsion of a player influences the out-come of a football match. Common sense implies a negative impact for the affected team. However, an old football myth suggests that such an expulsion might also be beneficial since it increases the team spirit as well as the efforts of the affected team. We make use of a unique dataset containing all games played in a World ...
2006| Marco Caliendo, Dubravko Radic
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DIW Discussion Papers 591 / 2006
The traditional approach to measuring allocative efficiency is based on input prices, which are rarely known at the firm level. This paper proposes a new approach to measure allocative efficiency which is based on the output-oriented distance to the frontier in a profit - technical efficiency space - and which does not require information on input prices. To validate the new approach, we perform a ...
2006| Oleg Badunenko, Michael Fritsch, Andreas Stephan
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DIW Discussion Papers 590 / 2006
Using a unique, large panel of German firms, we examine whether participation in business groups reduces the sensitivity of investment to cash flow. The main finding is that the reduction in the sensitivity is small for small firms and negligible for medium and large firms. We argue that by virtue of the continental business model, gains from business groups should be in better contract enforcement ...
2006| Dorothea Schäfer, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Oleksandr Talavera
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DIW Discussion Papers 589 / 2006
In this study we first analyze duties on passenger cars in 27 European countries. Taxes and fees related to the registration, ownership and use of cars are assessed differently across Europe, and their rates vary significantly. We find that the annual taxes levied on specific types of cars differ across countries by a factor of up to four, while the various kinds of duties levied account for extremely ...
2006| Uwe Kunert, Hartmut Kuhfeld
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DIW Discussion Papers 588 / 2006
The aim of this paper is to decompose cross-national differences in self-reported general health into parts explained by differences in "true" health, measured by diagnosed conditions and measurements, and parts explained by cross-cultural differences in response styles. The data used were drawn from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe 2004 (SHARE), using information from 22,000 ...
2006| Hendrik Jürges
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DIW Discussion Papers 587 / 2006
This paper examines how electronic procurement influences the organization of economic transactions. It seeks evidence for ICT-induced changes in how companies organize their activities and whether ICT lead to more competitive and transparent markets. Testing the relationship between the effect of electronic procurement on procurement cost and sourcing strategy, I provide new evidence that electronic ...
2006| Daniel Nepelski
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DIW Discussion Papers 586 / 2006
Like other data quality dimensions, the concept of accuracy is often adopted to characterise a particular data set. However, its common specification basically refers to statistical properties of estimators, which can hardly be proved by means of a single survey at hand. This ambiguity can be resolved by assigning 'accuracy' to survey processes that are known to affect these properties. In this contribution, ...
2006| Carsten Kuchler, Martin Spieß
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DIW Discussion Papers 585 / 2006
This note shows that the Svensson versus McCallum and Nelson controversy battled in the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Loius Review (September/ October 2005) can be mapped into a static version of a New Keynesian macro model that consists of an IS-equation, a Phillips curve and an inflation targeting central bank (e.g., Bofinger, Mayer, Wollmershäuser, (2006); Walsh (2002)). As a contribution to literature ...
2006| Peter Bofinger, Eric Mayer
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DIW Discussion Papers 584 / 2006
We discuss methods for calculating multivariate normal probabilities by simulation and two new Stata programs for this purpose: mvdraws for deriving draws from the standard uniform density using either Halton or pseudo-random sequences, and an egen function mvnp() for calculating the probabilities themselves. Several illustrations show how the programs may be used for maximum simulated likelihood ...
2006| Lorenzo Cappellari, Stephen P. Jenkins
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DIW Discussion Papers 583 / 2006
Im Rahmen der mit der EU-Integration und mit zukünftigen Erweiterungen verbundenen Freizügigkeitsregelungen stellt sich vermehrt die Frage nach der Integration von Zuwanderern aus Ländern innerhalb und außerhalb Europas. In diesem Beitrag fragen wir am Beispiel von Migranten aus drei Herkunftsgruppen (Südwesteuropa, Ex-Jugoslawien, Türkei) danach, unter welchen Bedingungen sich Zuwanderer am ehesten ...
2006| Jürgen Gerhards, Silke Hans
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DIW Discussion Papers 582 / 2006
Entrepreneurial activity is often regarded as an engine for economic growth and job creation. Through tax policy, governments possess a potential lever to influence the decisions of economic agents to start and close small businesses. In Germany, the top marginal income tax rates were reduced exclusively for entrepreneurs in 1994 and 1999/2000. These tax reforms provided two naturally defined control ...
2006| Frank M. Fossen, Viktor Steiner
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DIW Discussion Papers 581 / 2006
In this paper, the framework of the aggregated Beveridge curve is used to investigate the effectiveness of the job matching process using German regional labour market data. For a fixed matching technology, the Beveridge curve postulates a negative relationship between the unemployment rate and the rate of vacancies, which is efficiently estimated using spatial econometric techniques. The eigenfunction ...
2006| Reinhold Kosfeld, Christian Dreger, Hans-Friedrich Eckey
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DIW Discussion Papers 580 / 2006
This paper investigates the causal effect of geographic labour mobility on income. The returns to German East-West migration and commuting are estimated exploiting the structure of centrally planned economies and a "natural experiment" of German reunification for identification. I find that migration premium is insignificantly different from zero, the returns for commuters equal to four percent of ...
2006| Anzelika Zaiceva
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DIW Discussion Papers 579 / 2006
Soziale Erwünschtheit kann als Tendenz verstanden werden, scheinbar gesellschaftlich akzeptierte Antworten bei einer Befragung zu geben. Basierend auf den Analysen von Paulhus (1984) wird zwischen zwei Dimensionen unterschieden, der Selbst- und Fremdtäuschung. In Deutschland gibt es in der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung bisher kein Konzept, mit dem eine Überprüfung der Daten hinsichtlich sozial ...
2006| Niels Winkler, Martin Kroh, Martin Spieß
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DIW Discussion Papers 578 / 2006
The German labor market reforms seem to be on the right track. However, they need to be adjusted especially on the organizational side to make them more effective. The labor market instruments can be concentrated on temporary company wage subsidies, training measures and financial incentives for business start-ups. It is essential to increase incentives, intensify competitive structures and to ensure ...
2006| Hilmar Schneider, Werner Eichhorst, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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DIW Discussion Papers 577 / 2006
Dieses Paper zeigt, dass die Messung der Handgreifkraft ein auch in sozialwissenschaftlichen Bevölkerungsumfragen einfach zu ermittelndes, nicht-invasives und verlässliches objektives Gesundheitsmaß ist. Die Greifkraftmessung stellt nicht nur eine sinnvolle Ergänzung zu selbst berichteten Indikatoren des Gesundheitszustandes dar, sondern besitzt darüber hinaus hinsichtlich einer Vielzahl relevanter ...
2006| Karsten Hank, Hendrik Jürges, Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner
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DIW Discussion Papers 576 / 2006
Using data from the March Current Population Surveys in the United States, the Household Panel Survey in Great Britain and the Socio-Economic Panel in Germany we find gains from economic growth in the United States over their 1990s business cycle (1989-2000) were more equitably distributed than were the gains over their 1980s business cycle (1979-1989). Furthermore, they were more equitably distributed ...
2006| Richard V. Burkhauser, Ludmila Rovba