1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 97-07 // 1997

    Foul or Fair? The Heckman Correction for Sample Selection and its Critique - A Short Survey

    This paper gives a short overview of Monte Carlo studies on the usefulness of Heckman's (1976, 1979) two-step estimator for estimating a selection model. It shows that exploratory work to check for collinearity…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 97-03 // 1997

    All Quiet on the Wage Front: Gender, Public-Private Sector Issues, and Rigidities in the Polish Wage Structure

    We analyse the Polish wage and unemployment structure between 1992 and 1995 on the basis of the Polish Labour Force Survey. It is shown that within this period wage inequality has stabilised. Surprisingly, wage…

  3. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 1997

    Die Alterung des Ausbildungswissens nach der Handwerkslehre

  4. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 1997

    Humankapital und technischer Fortschritt

  5. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 1997

    Unzulängliche Nutzung von Humankapital

  6. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 1996

    Zugang mittelständischer Unternehmen zum Kapitalmarkt