Active Labor Market Policies in Europe: Performance and Perspectives (2007)
Kluve, Jochen, Card, David, Fertig, Michael, Góra, Marek, Jacobi, Lena, Jensen, Peter, ...
Kluve, Jochen, Schaffner, Sandra, Schmidt, Christoph M.
The aggregate average unemployment rate in a given country is essentially the result of individual workers' transitions between the three core labor force states, employment, unemployment, and...
Kluve, Jochen, Lehmann, Hartmut, Schmidt, Christoph M.
This paper estimates causal effects of two Polish active labor market policies - Training and Intervention Works - on employment probabilities. Using data from the 18th wave of the Polish Labor Force...
Measuring the local burden of disease. A study of years of life lost in sub-Saharan Africa (2001)
Würthwein, Ralph, Gbangou, Adjima, Sauerborn, Rainer, Schmidt, Christoph M
Background An effective health policy necessitates a reliable characterization of the burden of disease (BOD) by cause. The Global Burden of Disease Study (GBDS) aims to deliver this information. For...
Long-Term Unemployment, Unemployment Benefits and Social Assistance: The Polish Experience (1997)
Gora, Marek, Schmidt, Christoph M.
This paper provides a comprehensive account of the regulations governing the systems of unemployment support and social assistance in post-transition Poland. To provide a solid foundation for a...
Getting behind the East-West Wage Differential: Theory and Evidence (1997)
Michael Burda Humboldt, Michael C. Burda, Christoph M. Schmidt
Labor markets are the most important mediator of German unification and wages are a central indicator of its progress. Starting from the observation that a wage differential between two workers can...
Prospect Theory Goes To War: Loss-Aversion And The Duration Of Military Combat (1997)
Ralph Rotte, Ralph Rotte, Thomas Bauer, Thomas Bauer, Jurgen Brauer, Ira N. Gang, ...
This paper contributes to the empirical foundation of prospect theory in real-life international relations by testing two of its major implications in the field of military conflict. Using duration...
The Identification of Fractional ARIMA Models (1995)
Christoph M. Schmidt, Rolf Tschernig
For the fractional ARIMA model, we demonstrate that wrong model specification might lead to serious problems of inference in finite samples. We assess the performance of various model selection...
Long Memory in Foreign Exchange Rates Revisited (1994)
Rolf Tschernig, Franz Palm, Kate Phylaktis, Christoph M. Schmidt
: There has been recent evidence for long memory in the changes of foreign exchange spot rates that is captured by the fractionally integrated ARMA model. This paper extends these investigations in...
Money for Nothing and Your Chips for Free? : The Anatomy of the PC Wage Differential
In this paper, the role of the computer at the workplace will be examined in determining the wage structure in Germany. Following Krueger (1993) and using the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP),...
Jochen Kluve, Hartmut Lehmann, Christoph M. Schmidt
This paper estimates causal effects of two Polish active labor market policies - Training and Intervention Works - on employment probabilities. Using data from the 18th wave of the Polish Labor Force...
Arbeitspolitische Massnahmen und ihre Evaluierung : eine Bestandsaufnahme
In der Bundesrepublik Deutschland wird die Durchführung arbeitsmarktpolitischer Maßnahmen mit erheblichem personellen wie finanziellen Aufwand betrieben. Dennoch ist ein Erfolg dieser Maßnahmen...
Fertig, Michael, Kluve, Jochen, Schmidt, Christoph M.
"This paper investigates the causal effect of regional variation in active labor market policy utilizing data for 176 German employment offices and a period covering 2000-2004. In this endeavor, we...
Policy Evaluation and Economic Policy Advice
Arguably, one of the most important developments in the field of applied economics during the last decades has been the emergence of systematic policy evaluation, with its distinct focus on the...
Policy Evaluation and Economic Policy Advice
Arguably, one of the most important developments in the field of applied economics during the last decades has been the emergence of systematic policy evaluation, with its distinct focus on the...
The empirical assessment of technology differences : comparing the comparable
Frondel, Manuel, Schmidt, Christoph M.
This paper compares technologies across space and time on the basis of factual and counterfactual substitution elasticities and argues that differences in estimated substitution elasticities should...
Tobacco and Alcohol: Complements or Substitutes? A Structural Model Approach
Tauchmann, Harald, Göhlmann, Silja, Requate, Till, Schmidt, Christoph M.
The question of whether two drugs – namely alcohol and tobacco – are used as complements or substitutes is of crucial interest if side-effects of anti-smoking policies are considered. Numerous...
Fertig, Michael, Kluve, Jochen, Schmidt, Christoph M.
This paper investigates the causal effect of regional variation in active labor market policy utilizing data for 176 German employment offices and a period covering 2000-2004. In this endeavor, we...
Kluve, Jochen, Lehmann, Hartmut, Schmidt, Christoph M.
This paper provides micro-econometric evidence on the effectiveness of Active Labor Market Policies (ALMP) in Poland. We sketch the theoretical framework of matching estimators as a substitute for...
Persistence and the German Unemployment Problem: Empirical Evidences on German Labor Market Flows
Using a retrospective monthly calendarium of individuals’ major economic activities, this paper characterizes the monthly employment and unemployment rates and the monthly transition intensities...
Industry Wage Differentials Revisited: A Longitudinal Comparison of Germany and USA (1984-1996)
In this paper, the inter-industry wage structure in West Germany and USA is compared using the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), the German Mikrozensus (MZ), the American Panel Study of Income...
The Evaluation of Community-Based Interventions: Group Randomization, Limits and Alternatives
Schmidt, Christoph M., Baltussen, Rob, Sauerborn, Rainer
The context of community-based interventions presents formidable problems for any evaluation analysis. Group-randomized studies do possess ideal properties in theory, but in practice, group-...
Arbeitsmarktpolitische Maßnahmen und ihre Evaluierung: eine Bestandsaufnahme
(Title: Active Labor Market Policy and its Evaluation: The Current State of Affairs) Despite the considerable effort and the large financial expenditures spent on measures of Active Labor Market...
First- and Second-Generation Migrants in Germany - What Do We Know and What Do People Think
Fertig, Michael, Schmidt, Christoph M.
This paper provides a snapshot of the stock of immigrants in Germany using the 1995 wave of the Mikrozensus with a particular emphasis on distinguishing first- and second-generation migrants. On the...
On the Production of Victory: Empirical Determinants of Battlefield Success in Modern War
Rotte, Ralph, Schmidt, Christoph M.
Using a data set of historical battles from 1600 to 1973, this paper analyzes the empirical determinants of tactical success in modern war. Based on a reduced form approach we consider key elements...
The Role of Background Factors for Reading Literacy: Straight National Scores in the PISA 2000 Study
Fertig, Michael, Schmidt, Christoph M.
Based on the individual-level data of the PISA 2000 study, this note provides a detailed econometric analysis of the way that reading test scores are associated with individual and family background...
Fertig, Michael, Schmidt, Christoph M.
Taking a European cross-country perspective, this paper addresses the most important issues in the nexus of population ageing and labor markets. We start from a descriptive overview of the...
Can training and employment subsidies combat European unemployment?
Jochen Kluve, Christoph M. Schmidt
European countries with poorly performing labour markets and labour market institutions conducive to high unemployment also feature considerable expenditures on active labour market policy, and such...
Tobacco and Alcohol: Complements or Substitutes? A Structural Model Approach
Göhlmann, Silja, Requate, Till, Schmidt, Christoph M, Tauchmann, Harald
The question of whether two drugs – namely alcohol and tobacco – are used as complements or substitutes is of crucial interest if side-effects of anti-smoking policies are considered. Numerous...
Der erweiterte Minijob für Arbeitslose - Ein Reformvorschlag
Michael Fertig, Jochen Kluve, Christoph M. Schmidt
The recent reform of jobs with reduced social security contributions (the so-called Minijobs) was associated with the expectation that such jobs could serve as a bridge into regular employment for...
Hard Coal Subsidies: A Never-Ending Story?
Manuel Frondel, Rainer Kambeck, Christoph M. Schmidt
In Germany, hard coal has been subsidized for almost half a century. Despite the declining significance of hard coal production for the domestic labor market, the magnitude of subsidies increased...
On the Restrictiveness of Separability: The Significance of Energy in German Manufacturing
Manuel Frondel, Christoph M. Schmidt
Any researcher would certainly agree with Hamermesh’s (1993:34) intuition about separability that the ease of substitution between any two production factors should be unaffected by a third factor...
International Labor Migration, Economic Growth and Labor Markets – The Current State of Affairs
Christoph M. Schmidt, Thomas Bauer
Even though European labor markets are characterized by high average unemployment, there is a shortage of high-skilled labor, leading many European economists to argue for an immigration policy...
Michael Fertig, Christoph M. Schmidt
Taking a European cross-country perspective, this paper addresses the most important issues in the nexus of population ageing and labor markets.We start from a descriptive overview of the demographic...
Mobility within Europe – The Attitudes of European Youngsters
Christoph M. Schmidt, Michael Fertig
Intensified European integration, enlargement of the EU, and increasing migration activity worldwide have pushed migration and migration policy to the forefront of the European agenda. While many...
Germany's Solar Cell Promotion: Dark Clouds on the Horizon
Manuel Frondel, Nolan Ritter, Christoph M. Schmidt
This article demonstrates that the large feed-in tariffs currently guaranteed for solar electricity in Germany constitute a subsidization regime that, if extended to 2020, threatens to reach a level...
Tobacco and Alcohol: Complements or Substitutes? – A Structural Model Approach
Harald Tauchmann, Silja Göhlmann, Till Requate, Christoph M. Schmidt
The question of whether two drugs – namely alcohol and tobacco – are used as complements or substitutes is of crucial interest if side-effects of anti-smoking policies are considered. Numerous...
Money for Nothing and Your Chips for Free? The Anatomy of the PC Wage Differential
The role of the computer at the workplace is examined in determining the wage structure in Germany. It is shown that the wage premium attributed to using a computer at work using cross-sectional...
Knowing What Works The Case for Rigorous Program Evaluation
Since interventions by the public sector generally commit substantial societal resources, the evaluation of effects and costs of policy interventions is imperative. This paper outlines why program...
It is often argued that the labor market outcomes of several "problem groups" of German workers suffer disproportionately in an economic downturn. These groups are women, the unskilled, and young and...
Money for Nothing and Your Chips for Free? The Anatomy of the PC Wage Dipperential
In this paper, the role of the computer at the workplace will be examined in determining the wage structure in Germany. Following Krueger (1993) and using the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP),...
Fertig, Michael, Schmidt, Christoph M.
This paper provides a preliminary assessment of recent reforms of German employment promotion policy. While several recent studies analyze the impact of measures of employment promotion for the case...
Aggregate-Level Migration Studies as a Tool for Forecasting Future Migration Streams
Fertig, Michael, Schmidt, Christoph M.
Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address...
The Wage Performance of Immigrant Women: Full-Time Jobs, Part-Time Jobs, and the Role of Selection
Dustmann, Christian, Schmidt, Christoph M.
This paper contrasts labour participation behaviour and wages of native and immigrant women. Since the impact of family structure on labor supply differs between natives and immigrants, we explicitly...
The Evaluation of Community-Based Interventions: A Monte Carlo Study
Augurzky, Boris, Schmidt, Christoph M.
The evaluation of interventions such as active labor market policies or medical programs by means of a randomized controlled trial is often considered the gold standard. However, randomized...
The Propensity Score: A Means to An End
Augurzky, Boris, Schmidt, Christoph M.
Propensity score matching is a prominent strategy to reduce imbalance in observational studies. However, if imbalance is considerable and the control reservoir is small, either one has to match one...
Rejecting Capital-Skill Complementarity at all Costs
Frondel, Manuel, Schmidt, Christoph M.
Any serious empirical study of factor substitutability has to allow the data to display complementarity as well as substitutability. The standard approach reflecting this idea is a translog...
Kluve, Jochen, Lehmann, Hartmut, Schmidt, Christoph M.
This paper estimates causal effects of two Polish active labor market policies - Training and Intervention Works - on employment probabilities. Using data from the 18th wave of the Polish Labor Force...
Evaluating Environmental Programs: The Perspective of Modern Evaluation Research
Frondel, Manuel, Schmidt, Christoph M.
Large-scale environmental programs generally commit substantial societal resources, making the evaluation of their actual effects on the relevant outcomes imperative. As the example of the...
The Perception of Foreigners and Jews in Germany - A Structural Analysis of a Large Opinion Survey
Fertig, Michael, Schmidt, Christoph M.
The ultimate aim of opinion surveys is the provision of information on the distribution of preferences and perceptions at the individual level. Yet, eliciting this information from the data is...
Mobility within Europe - What do we (still not) know?
Fertig, Michael, Schmidt, Christoph M.
Intensified European integration, enlargement of the EU, and increasing migration activity worldwide have pushed migration and migration policy to the forefront of the European agenda. This paper...
Active Labor Market Policy in Germany - Is There a Successful Policy Strategy?
Fertig, Michael, Schmidt, Christoph M., Schneider, Hilmar
Each year Germany and many other developed economies spend tens of billions of Euros on active measures of employment promotion with the explicit aim of contributing to the reduction of unemployment....
Immigrant performance in Germany: Labor earnings of ethnic German migrants and foreign guest-workers
Mobility within Europe - What Do We (Still Not) Know?
Michael Fertig, Christoph M. Schmidt
Intensified European integration, enlargement of the EU, and increasing migration activity worldwide have pushed migration and migration policy to the forfront of the European agenda. This paper...
While ageing is accepted as a major problem for most industrialized societies, its labour market consequences are not yet fully understood. This paper analyses the effects of changes in the age...
Mass Migration, Unions, and Fiscal Migration Policy
Gehrig, Anette, Schmidt, Christoph M, Zimmermann, Klaus F
Standard economic reasoning based on competitive labour markets suggests that migrant inflow will unambiguously lead to allocative gains for the native population of a host country. Even abstracting...
The Earnings Dynamics of Immigrant Labour
Empirical evidence on the labour market performance of immigrants shows that migrant workers suffer from an initial earnings disadvantage compared to observationally equivalent native workers, but...
Unemployment, Real Wages and Union Membership
Schmidt, Christoph M, Zimmermann, Klaus F
This paper investigates economic determinants and effects of aggregate union membership in the Federal Republic of Germany. We establish that in the long run, high union membership levels coincide...
Relative Wage Effects of German Unions
In contrast to the United States or the United Kingdom where union status is generally tied to the job, the typical unionized worker in Germany is a member of an industry union and there is no direct...
The Economic Performance of Germany's East European Immigrants
Germany has experienced a substantial influx of German immigrants from Eastern Europe after World War II and expects several million more as a consequence of the demise of socialism. This paper...
Persistence and the German Unemployment Problem: Empirical Evidence on German Labour Market Flows
Using a retrospective monthly calendarium of individuals' major economic activities, this paper characterizes the monthly employment and unemployment rates and the monthly transition intensities...
Kluve, Jochen, Lehmann, Hartmut, Schmidt, Christoph M
This paper provides micro-econometric evidence on the effectiveness of Active Labor Market Policies (ALMP) in Poland. We sketch the theoretical framework of matching estimators as a substitute for...
The Wage Performance of Immigrant Women: Full-Time Jobs, Part-Time Jobs and the Role of Selection
Dustmann, Christian, Schmidt, Christoph M
This Paper contrasts labour participation behaviour and wages of native and immigrant women. Since the impact of family structure on labour supply differs between natives and immigrants, we...
First- and Second-Generation Migrants in Germany - What Do We Know and What Do People Think
Fertig, Michael, Schmidt, Christoph M
This Paper provides a snapshot of the stock of immigrants in Germany using the 1995 wave of the Mikrozensus, with a particular emphasis on distinguishing first- and second-generation migrants. On the...
Knowing What Works. The Case for Rigorous Programme Evaluation
Since interventions by the public sector generally commit substantial societal resources, the evaluation of effects and costs of policy interventions is imperative. This Paper outlines why programme...
The Perception of Foreigners and Jews in Germany - A Structural Analysis of a Large Opinion Survey
Fertig, Michael, Schmidt, Christoph M
The ultimate aim of opinion surveys is the provision of information on the distribution of preferences and perceptions at the individual level. Yet, eliciting this information from the data is...
Kluve, Jochen, Lehmann, Hartmut, Schmidt, Christoph M
This Paper estimates causal effects of two Polish active labour market policies – Training and Intervention Works – on employment probabilities. Utilizing data from the 18th wave of the Polish...
The Role of Background Factors for Reading Literacy: Straight National scores in the Pisa 2000 Study
Fertig, Michael, Schmidt, Christoph M
Based on the individual-level data of the PISA 2000 study, this Paper provides a detailed econometric analysis of the way that reading test scores are associated with individual and family background...
Work Characteristics, Firm Size and Wages.
Schmidt, Christoph M, Zimmermann, Klaus F
A positive wage-firm size relationship is well documented in the empirical literature in industrial organization and labor economics. Firm size seems to proxy various unobserved determinants such as...
The Empirical Assessment of Technology Differences: Comparing the Comparable
Manuel Frondel, Christoph M. Schmidt
Since the first statement of Hicks's induced innovation hypothesis in 1932, a large number of theoretical and empirical studies have analyzed the issue of price-induced technological change-many of...
Jochen Kluve, Hartmut Lehmann, Christoph M. Schmidt
This paper estimates causal effects of two Polish active labor market policies - training and intervention works - on employment probabilities. Using data from the 18th wave of the Polish Labor Force...
Rejecting capital-skill complementarity at all costs
Frondel, Manuel, Schmidt, Christoph M.
Any serious empirical study of factor substitutability has to allow the data to display complementarity as well as substitutability. The standard approach reflecting this idea is a translog...
Evaluating environmental programs : the perspective of modern evaluation research
Frondel, Manuel, Schmidt, Christoph M.
Large-scale environmental programs generally commit substantial societal resources, making the evaluation of their actual effects on the relevant outcomes imperative. As the example of the...
Tobacco and alcohol: complements or substitutes? : a statistical Guinea Pig approach
Tauchmann, Harald, Göhlmann, Silja, Requate, Till, Schmidt, Christoph M.
The question of whether two drugs – namely alcohol and tobacco – are used as complements or substitutes is of crucial interest if side-effects of anti-drug policies are considered. Numerous...
Manuel Frondel, Christoph M. Schmidt, Colin Vance
As part of its efforts to reach the targets of the Kyoto Protocol, the European Commission is currently considering a new directive to reduce the per-kilometer CO2 emissions of newly registered...
Measuring Energy Security – A Conceptual Note
Manuel Frondel, Christoph M. Schmidt
Along with the oil price, concerns about the security of energy supply have soared once again in recent years.Yet, more than 30 years after the OPEC oil embargo in 1973, energy security still remains...
Long-term unemployment, unemployment benefits and social assistance: The Polish experience
Marek GÕra, Christoph M. Schmidt
This paper provides a comprehensive account of the regulations governing the systems of unemployment support and social assistance in post-communist Poland. To provide a solid foundation for a...
Inter-Industry and Inter-Region Differentials: Mechanics and Interpretation
In their seminal study on inter-industry wage differentials, Krueger and Summers (1988) expressed estimated industry differences as deviations from a hypothetical employment-share weighted mean....
Smoking in Germany: Stylized Facts, Behavioral Models, and Health Policy
Silja Göhlmann, Christoph M. Schmidt
It is well known that smoking causes severe adverse health effects, and it seems evident that governments are justified or even obliged to implement measures of tobacco control to mitigate these...
WTP vs. WTA: Christmas Presents and the Endowment Effect
Bauer, Thomas, Schmidt, Christoph M.
Using data on the valuation of Christmas gifts received by students in different fields at a German university, we investigate whether the endowment effect differs between students of economics and...
Fiscal Effects of Minimum Wages: An Analysis for Germany
Bauer, Thomas, Kluve, Jochen, Schaffner, Sandra, Schmidt, Christoph M.
Against the background of the current discussion on the introduction of statutory minimum wages in Germany, this paper analyzes the potential employment and fiscal effects of such a policy. Based on...
Germany's solar cell promotion: Dark clouds on the horizon
Frondel, Manuel, Ritter, Nolan, Schmidt, Christoph M.
This article demonstrates that the large feed-in tariffs currently guaranteed for solar electricity in Germany constitute a subsidization regime that threatens to reach a level comparable to that of...
Emissions Trading: Impact on Electricity Prices and Energy-Intensive Industries
Manuel Frondel, Christoph M. Schmidt, Colin Vance
The EU-wide Emission Trading Scheme (ETS), established in 2005, is a key pillar of Europe’s strategy to attain compliance with the Kyoto Protocol. Under this scheme, CO2 allowances have thus far...
Inflation Forecasting with Inflation Sentiment Indicators
Roland Döhrn, Christoph M. Schmidt, Tobias Zimmermann
In this paper we argue that future inflation in an economy depends on the way people perceive current inflation, their inflation sentiment.We construct some simple measures of inflation sentiment...
Fiscal Effects of Minimum Wages – An Analysis for Germany
Thomas K. Bauer, Jochen Kluve, Sandra Schaffner, Christoph M. Schmidt
Against the background of the current discussion on the introduction of statutory minimum wages in Germany, this paper analyzes the potential employment and fiscal effects of such a policy. Based on...
WTP vs.WTA: Christmas Presents and the Endowment Effect
Thomas K. Bauer, Christoph M. Schmidt
Using data on the valuation of Christmas gifts received by students in different fields at a German university, we investigate whether the endowment effect differs between students of economics and...
Kluve, Jochen, Lehmann, Hartmut, Schmidt, Christoph M.
This paper estimates treatment effects of two active labor market policies - a training program and a wage subsidy scheme - on participants' employment probabilities. The analysis is based on unique...
Am Tropf Russlands? Ein Konzept zur empirischen Messung von Energieversorgungssicherheit
Manuel Frondel, Christoph M. Schmidt
Along with the oil price, concerns about the security of energy supply have soared once again in recent years. Yet, more than 30 years after the OPEC oil embargo in 1973, energy security still...
Fiscal Effects of Minimum Wages: An Analysis for Germany
Thomas K. Bauer, Jochen Kluve, Sandra Schaffner, Christoph M. Schmidt
Against the background of the current discussion of statutory minimum wages in Germany, this paper analyzes the potential employment and fiscal effects of such a policy. Based on estimated labor...
Identifying Free-Riding in Energy-Conservation Programs Using Revealed Preference Data
Peter Grösche, Christoph M. Schmidt, Colin Vance
Identifying the incidence of free-ridership is significant to a range of issues relevant to program evaluation, including the calculation of net program benefits and more general assessments of...
The Impact of Demographic Change on Human Capital Accumulation
Fertig, Michael, Schmidt, Christoph M., Sinning, Mathias
This paper investigates whether and to what extent demographic change has an impact on human capital accumulation. The effect of the relative cohort size on educational attainment of young adults in...
Measuring Energy Supply Risks: A G7 Ranking
Manuel Frondel, Nolan Ritter, Christoph M. Schmidt
The security of energy supply has again become a similarly hot topic as it was during the oil crises in the 1970s, not least due to the recent historical oil price peaks. In this paper, we analyze...
The Impact of Demographic Change on Human Capital Accumulation
Christoph M. Schmidt, Michael Fertig, Mathias G. Sinning
This paper investigates whether and to what extent demographic change has an impact on human capital accumulation. The effect of the relative cohort size on educational attainment of young adults in...
Ownership and Financial Performance in the German Hospital Sector
Boris Augurzky, Dirk Engel, Christoph M. Schmidt, Christoph Schwierz
This paper considers the role of ownership form for the financial performance of German acute care hospitals and its development over time.We measure financial performance by a hospital-specific...
Nickel and Dimed German Style: The Working Poor in Germany
Using data from the German SOEP, this paper analyses whether there have been (a) any significant changes in poverty rates and poverty intensities before and after the Hartz IV reforms and (b) whether...
Christa Thoben, Hartmut Schauerte, Markus Pieper, Christoph M. Schmidt
Der Fall Nokia hat in der Öffentlichkeit Empörung hervorgerufen und die Frage des Für und Wider von Subventionen für private Unternehmen aufgeworfen. Sind Investitionsförderungen durch...
Nachtrag: Mindestlohn: Für und Wider
Ronald Bachmann, Thomas K. Bauer, Jochen Kluve, Christoph M. Schmidt
Ergänzend zu den Beiträgen im ifo Schnelldienst 6/2008 stellen Ronald Bachmann, Thomas K. Bauer, Jochen Kluve und Christoph M. Schmidt, Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung...
The Impact of Demographic Change on Human Capital Accumulation
Michael Fertig, Christoph M. Schmidt, Mathias G. Sinning
This paper investigates whether and to what extent demographic change has an impact on human capital accumulation. The effect of the relative cohort size on educational attainment of young adults in...
Christoph M. Schmidt, Michael Fertig
Migration ist eines der am heftigsten diskutierten Themen im Rahmen der Osterweiterung der Europäischen Union. In den Medien und auch einigen wissenschaftlichen Publikationen finden sich eine...
The Capital-Energy Controversy: An Artifact of Cost Shares?
Manuel Frondel, Christoph M. Schmidt
Any serious empirical study of factor substitutability has to allow the data to display complementarity as well as substitutability. The standard approach reflecting this idea is a translog...
Thomas K. Bauer, Stefan Bender, Alfredo R. Paloyo, Christoph M. Schmidt
Causal effect, quasi-experimental estimators, conscription
Jochen Kluve, Sandra Schaffner, Christoph M. Schmidt
Labor force, unemployment dynamics, business cycle, worker heterogeneity
Evaluating the labour-market effects of compulsory military service
Bauer, Thomas K., Bender, Stefan, Paloyo, Alfredo R., Schmidt, Christoph M.
"We identify the causal effect of compulsory military service on conscripts' subsequent labour-market outcomes by exploiting the regression-discontinuity design of the military draft in Germany...
Evaluating the Labor-Market Effects of Compulsory Military Service
Bauer, Thomas, Bender, Stefan, Paloyo, Alfredo R., Schmidt, Christoph M.
We identify the causal effect of compulsory military service on conscripts’ subsequent labor-market outcomes by exploiting the regression-discontinuity design of the military draft in Germany...