Taking advantage of the panel structure of the data, the impact of intermarriage on labor market productivity as measured by earnings is examined. Contrarily to previous studies which rely on instrumental variable techniques, selection issues are addressed within a fixed effects framework. The model accounts for short and long term effects as well as general differences between those who...
Olga Nottmeyer
Delmenhorst,
04.03.2010
- 05.03.2010| 6th International Young Scholar German Socio-Economic Panel Symposium
Jan Goebel, Peter Krause
Rostock,
03.03.2010
- 05.03.2010| Sozioökonomische Unterschiede in der Fertilität und in der Mortalität - beobachten wir zunehmend Ungleichheiten?: Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Demographie 2010
Erika Schulz
Rostock,
03.03.2010
- 05.03.2010| Sozioökonomische Unterschiede in der Fertilität und in der Mortalität - beobachten wir zunehmend Ungleichheiten?: Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Demographie 2010
Nicolas R. Ziebarth, Joachim R. Frick
Berlin,
01.03.2010
- 02.03.2010| Money Meets Medicine: 2. Jahreskonferenz der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (dggö)
This paper studies the cost structure of water distribution utilities in Germany. Stochastic cost frontier models are applied to an unbalanced panel of 371 observations of 72 companies in the period from 1998 to 2007. The results suggest that some utilities could reduce their costs by more than 20%. Water losses and elevation differences in a service area turn out to be significant cost drivers....
Michael Zschille, Matthias Walter
Berlin,
25.02.2010
- 26.02.2010| Waterday: Workshop on Water Economics and Technology: Organized by the Joint Research Program ¿Water Economics and Management¿
We put forward a modern version of the 'developmental' view of government-owned banks which shows that the combination of information asymmetries and weak institutions creates scope for such banks to play a growth-promoting role. We present new cross-country evidence consistent with our theoretical predictions. Specifically, we show that during 1995-2007 government ownership of banks has been...
Svetlana Andrianova, Panicos Demetriades, Anja Shortland
Las Vegas, USA,
24.02.2010
- 26.02.2010| Midwest Finance Association Conference