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57: Identifying the Rebound: Theoretical Issues and Empirical Evidence from a German Household Panel

Manuel Frondel, Jörg Peters and Colin Vance

56: Always Poor or Never Poor and Nothing in Between? Duration of Child Poverty in Germany

Michael Fertig and Marcus Tamm

55: Does Money Buy Higher Schooling? Evidence from Secondary School Track Choice in Germany

Marcus Tamm

54: Who gets the Credit? Determinants of the Probability of Default in the German Hospital Sector

Boris Augurzky, Dirk Engel and Christoph Schwierz

53: Hard Coal Subsidies: A Never-Ending Story?

Manuel Frondel, Rainer Kambeck and Christoph Schmidt

52: Tobacco and Alcohol: Complements or Substitutes? - A Statistical Guinea Pig Approach

Harald Tauchmann, Silja Göhlmann, Till Requate and Christoph Schmidt

51: Improving Business Cycle Forecasts' Accuracy - What Can We Learn from Past Errors?

Roland Döhrn

50: Satellites and Suburbs: A High-resolution Model of Open-space Conversion

Rich Iovanna and Colin Vance

49: An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition to Non-Linear Models

Thomas Bauer and Mathias Sinning

48: On the Link between Urban Form and Automobile Use - Evidence from German Survey Data

Colin Vance and Ralf Hedel

47: Identifying the Determinants of Attitudes towards Immigrants - A Structural Cross-Country Analysis

Jan Brenner and Michael Fertig

46: The Effects of Reference Pricing on Ex-factory Prices of Rx Drugs in Germany - A Panel Data Approach

Boris Augurzky, Silja Göhlmann, Stefan Greß and Juergen Wasem

45: Home-ownership and Economic Performance of Immigrants in Germany

Mathias Sinning

44: Gender Differences in Smoking Behavior

Thomas Bauer, Silja Göhlmann and Mathias Sinning

43: Copayments in the German Health System - Do They Work?

Boris Augurzky, Thomas Bauer and Sandra Schaffner

42: Bank Lending and Asset Prices in the Euro Area

Michael Frömmel and Torsten Schmidt

41: Before and After the Hartz Reforms: The Performance of Active Labour Market Policy in Germany

Lena Jacobi and Jochen Kluve

40: A Note on Consistency of Heckman-type two-step Estimators for the Multivariate Sample-Selection Model

Harald Tauchmann

39: Marginal Effects and Significance Testing with Heckman's Sample Selection Model: A Methodological Note

Colin Vance

38: On the Restrictiveness of Separability: The Significance of Energy in German Manufacturing

Manuel Frondel and Christoph Schmidt

37: The Effectiveness of European Active Labor Market Policy

Jochen Kluve

36: Biodiesel: A New Oildorado?

Manuel Frondel and Jörg Peters

35: The Intriguing Nexus between Corruption and Capital Account Restrictions

Axel Dreher and Lars-Hinrich Siemers

34: Knowledge Transfer in Buyer-Supplier Relationships - When It (Not) Occurs

Werner Bönte and Lars Wiethaus

33: The Effect of Poverty on the Health of Newborn Children - Evidence from Germany

Marcus Tamm

32: Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition for Tobit Models

Thomas Bauer and Mathias Sinning

31: Effects of Oil Price Shocks on German Business Cycles

Torsten Schmidt and Tobias Zimmermann

30: Human Capital and Economic Growth in OECD Countries

Torge Middendorf

29: The Savings Behavior of Temporary and Permanent Migrants in Germany

Thomas Bauer and Mathias Sinning

28: Price Elasticities and Social Health Insurance Choice in Germany: A Dynamic Panel Data Approach

Stefan Greß, Marcus Tamm, Harald Tauchmann and Juergen Wasem

27: The Effect of Age at School Entry on Educational Attainment in Germany

Michael Fertig and Jochen Kluve

26: A Portrait of Child Poverty in Germany

Miles Corak, Michael Fertig and Marcus Tamm

25: The Educational and Professional Background of Central Bankers and its Effect on Inflation - An Empirical Analysis

Silja Göhlmann and Roland Vaubel

24: Characterizing Movements of the U.S. Current Account Deficit

Torge Middendorf and Torsten Schmidt

23: What Can We Learn From International Student Performance Studies? Some Methodological Remarks

Michael Fertig

22: Do Organizational Forms matter? An Econometric Analysis of Innovativeness in the German Wastewater Sector

Harald Tauchmann and Hartmut Clausen

21: Assessing the performance of matching algorithms when selection into treatment is strong

Boris Augurzky and Jochen Kluve

20: International Labor Migration, Economic Growth and Labor Markets - The Current State of Affairs

Christoph Schmidt, John P. Haisken-DeNew and Thomas Bauer

19: Shot Across the Bow, Stigma or Selection? - The Effect of Repeating a Class on Educational Attainment

Michael Fertig

18: The Societal Integration of Immigrants in Germany

Michael Fertig

17: Firing the Furnace? - An Econometric Analysis of Utilities' Fuel Choice

Harald Tauchmann

16: The Birth of German Biotechnology Industry - Did Venture Capital run the show?

Oliver Heneric, Dirk Engel and Claire Champenois

15: What Triggers Environmental Management and Innovation? - Empirical Evidence for Germany

Klaus Rennings, Jens Horbach and Manuel Frondel

14: Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in Small Establishments

Thomas Bauer, Stefan Bender and Holger Bonin

13: A Conceptual Framework for the Evaluation of Comprehensive Labor Market Policy Reforms in Germany

Michael Fertig and Jochen Kluve

12: Real and Nominal Wage Rigidities and the Rate of Inflation: Evidence from West German Micro Data

Thomas Bauer, Holger Bonin and Uwe Sunde

11: The Demand for High-skilled Workers and Immigration Policy

Thomas Bauer and Astrid Kunze

10: The Effectiveness of Qualification Measures for Employed Workers - An Evaluation Study for Saxony

Michael Fertig

9: School Quality, Educational Attainment and Aggregation Bias

Michael Fertig and Robert Wright

8: Gerontocracy in Motion? - European Cross-Country Evidence on the Labor Market Consequences of Population Ageing

Michael Fertig and Christoph Schmidt

7: The Impact of Economic Integration on Employment - An Assessment in the Context of EU-Enlargement

Michael Fertig

6: Credit Crunch in Germany?

Hiltrud Nehls and Torsten Schmidt

5: Sheepskin Effects in Japan

Thomas Bauer, Patrick J. Dross and John P. Haisken-DeNew

4: Who's to Blame? The Determinants of German Students' Achievement in the PISA 2000 Study

Michael Fertig

3: ICT and Socio-Economic Exclusion

John P. Haisken-DeNew and Conchita D'Ambrosio

2: Educational Production, Endogenous Peer Group Formation and Class Composition - Evidence From the PISA 2000 Study

Michael Fertig

1: Mobility within Europe - The Attitudes of European Youngsters

Michael Fertig and Christoph Schmidt