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Refereed essays Web of Science
The use of log-transformed data has become standard in macroeconomic forecasting with VAR models. However, its appropriateness in the context of out-of-sample forecasts has not yet been exposed to a thorough empirical investigation. With the aim of filling this void, a broad sample of VAR models is employed in a multi-country set up and approximately 42 million pseudo-out-of-sample forecasts of GDP ...
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Economics Letters
126 (2015), S. 40-42
| Johannes Mayr, Dirk Ulbricht
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Report
The SOEP data remain an interesting start point for research from many areas. The high number of presentations with SOEP data on national and international conferences show proof for that. On the following website you can see a composition of presentations held on basis of the SOEP data: Please click here
01.12.2014
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DIW Economic Bulletin 11 / 2014
In East Germany, prior to reunification, daycare provision was widely available to encourage mothers to return to work soon after giving birth. Conversely, in West Germany, childcare facilities for under-threes were few and far between and, at the end of the ’80s/ beginning of the ’90s, the length of parental leave was gradually extended up to three years following the birth of a child. Since 2005, ...
2014| Pia S. Schober, Juliane F. Stahl
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DIW Economic Bulletin 11 / 2014
Almost twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, far more eastern Germans are unhappy with their income than western Germans. In 2013, around 44 percent of employed eastern Germans rated their earnings as unjust compared with approximately one-third in western Germany. Although the east-west gap has been diminishing since 2005—to around 12 percent in 2013—this is not because eastern Germans ...
2014| Stefan Liebig, Sebastian Hülle, Jürgen Schupp
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DIW Economic Bulletin 11 / 2014
It is now a quarter of a century since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the gap in living standards between eastern and western Germany is still not fully closed. Admittedly, this could not realistically have been expected. Despite the increase in life satisfaction in eastern Germany, the east-west divide prevails. Evidence of this can be found in the latest data from the long-term Socio-Economic Panel ...
2014| Maximilian Priem, Jürgen Schupp
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Economic Bulletin
by Karl Brenke, Marcel Fratzscher, Markus M. Grabka, Elke Holst, Sebastian Hülle, Stefan Liebig, Maximilian Priem, Anika Rasner, Pia S. Schober, Jürgen Schupp, Juliane F. Stahl, Anna Wieber in: DIW Economic Bulletin 11/2014
People’s expectations after the fall of the Berlin Wall 25 years ago and of reunification in 1990 were huge. The government promised to create “flourishing ...
11.12.2014
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Economic Bulletin
by Karl Brenke in: DIW Economic Bulletin 11/2014
The economic gap between eastern and western Germany is still sizeable, even 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. In terms of GDP per inhabitant and productivity, eastern Germany has attained nearly three-quarters of western German levels, respectively. Since some years, the catch-up process is advancing very slowly indeed. The main reason ...
11.12.2014
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Economic Bulletin
by Karl Brenke in: DIW Economic Bulletin 11/2014
Eastern Germany Must Focus on Education and Innovation: Six Questions to Karl Brenke
11.12.2014
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Economic Bulletin
by Markus M. Grabka in: DIW Economic Bulletin 11/2014
Very nearly 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, households in eastern Germany have an average net worth of 67,400 euros which is less than half that of their counterparts in western Germany with an average net worth of 153,200 euros. In both parts of the country, real estate ownership is quantitatively the most important asset type. Although ...
11.12.2014
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Economic Bulletin
by Elke Holst and Anna Wieber in: DIW Economic Bulletin 11/2014
Almost a quarter of a century after the fall of the Wall, there are still more women in employment in eastern Germany than in the west. Although the disparity is marginal now, the two regions started from dramatically different levels. In 1991, immediately after reunification, the employment rate for women in western Germany ...
11.12.2014