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A new approach for modeling under-reported Poisson counts is developed. The parameters of the model are estimated by Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulation. An application to workers absenteeism data from the German Socio-Economic Panel illustrates the fruitfulness of the approach. Worker absenteeism and the level of pay are unrelated, but absence rates increase with firm size.
In:
Empirical Economics
21 (1996), 4, 575-587
| Rainer Winkelmann
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In:
Konjunkturpolitik
42 (1996), 4, 275-297
| Rainer Winkelmann
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This article contributes to the ongoing debate on native wage impacts of immigration. I propose a mobile-fixed factor distinction as a framework in which to think about the differential impact of immigration on various labor market groups. Skilled workers are treated as a fixed factor of production since the strong reliance on skill certification in Germany inhibits mobility and shelters from competition. ...
In:
Journal of Population Economics
9 (1996), 2, 159-171
| Rainer Winkelmann
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Berlin, Heidelberg, New York u.a.:
Springer,
1997,
| Rainer Winkelmann
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The recent economic literature on the incidence of various forms of post-secondary on-the-job and off-the-job training in Germany and the United States, as well as on the effects of training on wages, inequality, and labor mobility is surveyed. Young workers in Germany receive substantially more company-based (apprenticeship) training than United States workers. In the United States, high turnover ...
In:
Journal of Population Economics
(1997), 10, 159-170
| Rainer Winkelmann
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In:
Applied Economics Letters
(1999), 6, 337-341
| Rainer Winkelmann
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Berlin:
Springer,
2003,
| Rainer Winkelmann
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Zurich:
University of Zurich,
2003,
(Socioeconomic Institute Working Paper No. 0314)
| Rainer Winkelmann
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Zurich:
University of Zurich,
2003,
(Socioeconomic Institute Working Paper No. 0311)
| Rainer Winkelmann
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The German health care reform of 1997 provides a natural experiment for evaluating the price sensitivity of demand for physicians' services. As a part of the reform, co-payments for prescription drugs were increased step up to 200%. However, certain groups of people were exempted from the increase, providing a natural control group against which the changed demand for physicians' services ...
In:
Health Economics
13 (2004), 11, 1081-1089
| Rainer Winkelmann