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On the Estimation and Forecasting of International Migration: How Relevant Is Heterogeneity Across Countries?
Brücker, Herbert; Siliverstovs, Boriss - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper performs a comparative analysis of estimation as well as of out-of-sample forecasting results of more than … estimates of the migration function. Out-of-sample forecasting results indicate the following: (i) the standard fixed effects … variables estimators, (iv) forecasting performance of heterogenous estimators is mediocre in our data set. …
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Non-Farm Enterprise Productivity and Spatial Autocorrelation in Rural Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia and Nigeria
Owoo, Nkechi S.; Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The productivity of non-farm enterprises in rural Africa may be associated with the productivity of other spatially proximate farm and non-farm enterprises. To test for the presence and significance of such spatial autocorrelation we use data from the geo-referenced 2011 Ethiopian Rural...
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Regional Policy Evaluation: Interactive Fixed Effects and Synthetic Controls
Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In this paper, we investigate the use of interactive effect or linear factor models in regional policy evaluation. We contrast treatment effect estimates obtained by Bai (2009)'s least squares method with the popular difference in difference estimates as well as with estimates obtained using...
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On the Stability of the German Beveridge Curve: A Spatial Econometric Perspective
Kosfeld, Reinhold; Dreger, Christian; Eckey, Hans-Friedrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
In this paper, the framework of the aggregated Beveridge curve is used to investigate the effectiveness of the job matching process using German regional labour market data. For a fixed matching technology, the Beveridge curve postulates a negative relationship between the unemployment rate and...
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Spatial and Temporal Diffusion of House Prices in the UK
Holly, Sean; Pesaran, Hashem; Yamagata, Takashi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper provides a method for the analysis of the spatial and temporal diffusion of shocks in a dynamic system. We use changes in real house prices within the UK economy at the level of regions to illustrate its use. Adjustment to shocks involves both a region specific and a spatial effect....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543271
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The Exporter Productivity Premium along the Productivity Distribution: First Evidence from a Quantile Regression Approach for Fixed Effects Panel Data Models
Powell, David; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
An emerging literature on international activities of heterogeneous firms documents that exporting firms are more productive than firms that only sell on the national market. This positive exporter productivity premium shows up in a large number of empirical studies after controlling for...
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Treatment Evaluation with Multiple Outcome Periods under Endogeneity and Attrition
Frölich, Markus; Huber, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper develops a nonparametric methodology for treatment evaluation with multiple outcome periods under treatment endogeneity and missing outcomes. We use instrumental variables, pre-treatment characteristics, and short-term (or intermediate) outcomes to identify the average treatment...
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The Public Sector Wage Premium in Spain: Evidence from Longitudinal Administrative Data
Hospido, Laura; Moral-Benito, Enrique - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper studies the public sector wage gap in Spain, by gender, skill level and type of contract, using recent administrative data from tax records. We estimate wage distributions in the presence of covariates separately for men and women in the public and in the private sectors, and we take...
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Policy Responses to Fiscal Restraints: A Difference-in-Discontinuities Design
Grembi, Veronica; Nannicini, Tommaso; Troiano, Ugo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We evaluate the effect of relaxing fiscal rules on policy outcomes applying a quasi-experimental research design. In 1999, the Italian central government introduced fiscal rules aimed at imposing fiscal discipline on municipal governments, and in 2001 the rules were relaxed for municipalities...
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Penalized Quantile Regression with Semiparametric Correlated Effects: Applications with Heterogeneous Preferences
Harding, Matthew; Lamarche, Carlos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper proposes new ℓ1-penalized quantile regression estimators for panel data, which explicitly allows for individual heterogeneity associated with covariates. We conduct Monte Carlo simulations to assess the small sample performance of the new estimators and provide comparisons of new...
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