Tilman Brück
Lissabon, Portugal,
07.06.2010
- 08.06.2010| The Behavioural and Cultural Foundations and Consequences of Violence: Workshop at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon
Damir Esenaliev, Susan Steiner
Bishkek, Kirgisistan,
07.06.2010
- 09.06.2010| Between Europe and the Orient - A Focus on Research and Higher Education in/on Central Asia: International Symposium
Nicolas R. Ziebarth, Joachim R. Frick
Darmstadt,
04.06.2010
- 06.06.2010| Health. Happiness. Inequality: Modelling the Pathways between Income Inequality and Health: Conference
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
Bonn,
03.06.2010
- 05.06.2010| 7th IZA Annual Migration Meeting (AM2)
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
Houston, USA,
02.06.2010
- 05.06.2010| North American Productivity Workshop VI