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This paper examines the degree of persistence of youth unemployment (total, male and female) in twenty-four countries by using two alternative measures: the AR coefficient and the fractional differencing parameter, based on short- and longmemory processes respectively. The evidence suggests that...
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We estimate Okun coefficients for five different age cohorts for several Eurozone countries. We find a stable pattern for all countries: The relationship between business-cycle fluctuations and the unemployment rate is the strongest for the youngest cohort and gets smaller for the elderly cohorts.
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This paper assesses the dynamics of treatment effects arising from variation in the duration of training. We use German ….e. days of training, to the individual post-treatment employment probability (the response). The dose-response function is … planned training durations as treatment variables: If only actual durations are observed, treatment effect estimates may be …
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While there has been a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from multinationals this literature treats the channels through which these spillover effects work as a black box. The innovation of this paper is to investigate whether spillovers occur via worker mobility. We use data...
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Many commonly used treatment effects estimators rely on the unconfoundedness assumption (“selection on observables") which is fundamentally non-testable. When evaluating the effects of labor market policies, researchers need to observe variables that affect both treatment participation and...
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-in-difference matching strategy based on firm level panel data. In addition, we implement a more structural approach with a tax rate …
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It has previously been shown that civil conflict influences many economic factors, including education, which play an important role in development and economic growth. Previous authors working on the influence of conflict on education have, however, always focused strongly on the supply-side...
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We investigate the matching algorithm used by the German central clearinghouse for university admissions (ZVS) in … criteria applied for admission they all make use of priority matching. In priority matching schemes, it is not a dominant … applicants, we are able to detect some amount of strategic behaviour which can lead to inefficient matching. Alternative ways to …
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Having close linkages with the counterfactual concept of causality, nonparametric matching estimators have recently … causal model (RCM), the paper discusses the implementation of counterfactual analyses by propensity score matching methods … underlying matching methods relative to standard regression analysis. We then illustrate the application of matching estimators …
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Matching has become a popular approach to estimate average treatment effects. It is based on the conditional … matching estimators are not robust. We address this problem with the bounding approach proposed by Rosenbaum (2002), where … to undermine the implications of the matching analysis. …
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