Many Colombians are confronted with the ongoing conflict which influences their decision making in everyday life, including their behaviour on labour markets. This study focuses on the impact of violent conflict on self-employment, enlarging the usual determinants by a set of conflict variables. In order to estimate the effect of conflict on self-employment, we employ fixed effects estimation....
Carlos Bozzoli, Tilman Brück, Nina Wald
Berlin,
30.09.2010
| Third Doctoral Research Seminar in Development Economics
Christian Schmitt
Bamberg,
30.09.2010
- 02.10.2010| Analysing Education, Family, Work and Welfare in Modern Societies - Methodological Approaches and Empirical Evidence: Joint ECSR/QMSS2/TransEurope Conference
Thure Traber
Loccum,
29.09.2010
- 30.09.2010| Wenn weniger mehr ist - nachhaltiger Energiekonsum in Wohngebäuden: Abschlusstagung des Projekts Soziale, ökologische und ökonomische Dimensionen eines nachhaltigen Energiekonsums in Wohngebäuden (Seco@home)
Odette Wegwarth, Uwe Czienskowski, Gert G. Wagner, Gerd Gigerenzer
Bremen,
26.09.2010
- 30.09.2010| Erklären, entscheiden, planen: 47. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie
It is argued that the observed return rates on capital at firm-level have an upward bias if firms are producing with unobserved intangible capital. Using EUKLEED, a comprehensive firm level data base for Germany, this theoretical preposition is proved empirically. Furthermore, making unobserved capital observable the dispersion in return rates reduces dramatically. The results clearly support the...
Bernd Görzig, Martin Gornig
London, Großbritannien,
24.09.2010
- 26.09.2010| 10th Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data & COST Conference
Linkages between banks and insurance companies are important when forecasting the fragility of the banking and insurance sectors. We propose a novel empirical framework that allows us to estimate unobserved linkages in panel data sets that contains observed regressors. We find that taking unobserved common factors into account reduces the root mean square forecasts error of firm specific forecasts...
Kerstin Bernoth, Andreas Pick
München,
23.09.2010
- 25.09.2010| CEQURA Conference on Advances in Financial and Insurance Risk Management
Alexander Eickelpasch
Berlin,
23.09.2010
- 24.09.2010| 4. Fachtagung für Datenschutzbeauftragte an Hochschulen und anderen wissenschaftlichen Einrichtungen
Markus M. Grabka
Wiesbaden,
22.09.2010
| Initiative gegen Armut - für Bildung, Arbeit und soziale Teilhabe in Wiesbaden: Veranstaltungsreihe zur Armut und ihren Folgen in der reichen Landeshauptstadt Wiesbaden
Claudia Kemfert
Frankfurt am Main,
21.09.2010
- 22.09.2010| Public Management 2010: Innovative Konzepte für den Öffentlichen Sektor: Konferenz des Frankfurt School Verlag