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The Empirics of Hidden Labor Force Dynamics in Germany
The unemployment rate is the core indicator when researchers and policymakers assess the level of underemployment in an economy. However, accumulating evidence suggests that the... -
Does Social Media Increase Labour Productivity?
Social media applications such as wikis, blogs or social networks are being increasingly applied in firms. These applications can be used for external communication and internal... -
Characteristics of Banking Crises (replication data)
This paper compares determinants of banking sector crises using an early warning system approach in a diverse cross-country panel. We cover 152 countries using annual data from... -
Matching as a stochastic process (replication data)
Results of multi-party bargaining are usually described by concepts from cooperative game theory, in particular by the core. In one-on-one matching, core allocations are stable... -
Migration and Regional Wage Disparities in Germany (replication data)
The study provides an analysis of the effect of migration and commuting on regional wage disparities. For the analysis most variables are taken from the INKAR dataset (INKAR... -
A Sequential Decomposition of the Drop in Collective Bargaining Coverage (rep...
The data documentation contains information on: 1. Data access (links) 2. Data description (links) 3. Variables list 4. Program routines, i.e. Do-Files A description of the... -
Life satisfaction in Germany after reunification: Additional insights on the ...
The authors update previous findings and add new insights on the East-West gap in overall life satisfaction and its trend by using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel... -
Still Different After All These Years (replication data)
Notes on the firm level data used in the paper "Still different after all these years - Extensive and intensive margins of exports in East and West German manufacturing... -
The Association Between Own Unemployment and Violence Victimization Among Fem...
We estimate the association between the unemployment status of young women and the probability that they are subject to violence, using Swedish population register data covering... -
Career Planning, School Grades, and Transitions: The Last Two Years in a Germ...
In Germany, students in lower track secondary schools (LTSS) typically receive intensive career guidance. Nevertheless, the majority of LTSS student graduates does not start an... -
Youth unemployment after apprenticeship training and individual, occupation a...
This paper analyses the risk of unemployment, unemployment duration, and the risk of longterm unemployment immediately after apprenticeship graduation. Unemployed apprenticeship... -
Why We Should Use High Values for the Smoothing Parameter of the Hodrick-Pres...
The HP filter is the most popular filter for extracting the unobserved trend and cycle components from a time series. Many researchers consider the smoothing parameter λ = 1600... -
Youth Unemployment in the OECD: The Role of Institutions
This paper analyses the risk of unemployment, unemployment duration, and the risk of longterm unemployment immediately after apprenticeship graduation. Unemployed apprenticeship... -
Intergenerational transmission of unemployment - evidence for German sons (re...
This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German survey data that cover the last decades we find significant... -
Intergenerational Transmission of Unemployment (Replication Data)
The study uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) provided by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW). Data access will be granted after signing a... -
Terrorism and International Tourism: The Case of Germany (replication data)
We analyse how German tourists react to unanticipated shocks that alter their risk perception of selected tourism destinations. Using a difference-in-difference strategy which... -
Averaging Across Asset Allocation Models (replication data)
Combination of asset allocation models is rewarding if (i) the applied risk function is concave and (ii) there is no dominating model. We show that most common risk... -
Inter-industrial Relations and Sectoral Employment Development in German Regi...
This paper analyses the impact of cluster structures on employment development in Germany according to the hypothesis of Porter (1998). It develops a new way of measuring the... -
Early Life Adversity and Children’s Competence Development: Evidence from the...
This paper investigates the role of early life adversity and home resources in terms of competence formation and school achievement based on data from an epidemiological cohort... -
Unemployment Compensation and Wages: Evidence from the German Hartz Reforms (...
Using the introduction of fixed unemployment assistance in Germany in 2005 as a unique natural experiment, we find strong evidence that decreased unemployment compensation has...
