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Current Account Imbalances and Structural Adjustment in the Euro Area: How to Rebalance Competitiveness

Zemanek, Holger; Belke, Ansgar; Schnabl, Gunther - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Low international competitiveness of a set of euro area countries, which have become evident by large current account … analyse the role of private restructuring and public structural reforms for the urgently needed readjustment of intra-euro … intra-euro area competitiveness. This implies that private restructuring and public reforms are rather than public transfers …

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Statistical Analysis of Landmine Fatalities in Kurdistan

Heshmati, Almas; Khayyat, Nabaz T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This study analyzes mines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) victim data in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq during the period of the 1960s to 2005. In addition to descriptive analysis of the data, we use regression analysis to identify the determinants of the probability of getting killed by a mine or...

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Comparing Subjective and Objective Measures of Health: Evidence from Hypertension for the Income/Health Gradient

Johnston, David W.; Propper, Carol; Shields, Michael A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Economists rely heavily on self-reported measures of health status to examine the relationship between income and health. In this paper we directly compare survey responses to a self-reported measure of health that is commonly available in nationally-representative individual and household...

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A Nation-Wide Laboratory: Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Surveys

Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; von Rosenbladt, Bernhard; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and self-selection biases. The usefulness of survey data is limited by measurement error and by the questionability of their behavioral relevance. Here we present a method integrating interactive experiments and...

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Cumulation of Cross-Section Surveys: Evaluation of Alternative Concepts for the Cumulated Continuous Household Budget Surveys (LWR) 1999 until 2003 Compared to the Sample Survey of...

Merz, Joachim; Stolze, Henning - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

With the development of household budget systems and with regard to the requirements of the European Union with new EU-SILC approaches, the cumulation of cross-section surveys to an integrated information system is recently discussed and required. In particular the reconstruction of household...

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Surveying Migrant Households: A Comparison of Census-Based, Snowball, and Intercept Point Surveys

McKenzie, David Mckenzie; Mistiaen, Johan Andre - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Few representative surveys of households of migrants exist, limiting our ability to study the effects of international migration on sending families. We report the results of an experiment designed to compare the performance of three alternative survey methods in collecting data from...

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Disagreement in Partners' Reports of Financial Difficulty

Breunig, Robert; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Gong, Xiaodong; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We use unique data in which both partners report about household finances to demonstrate that there is often disagreement about whether the household has experienced financial difficulty in the past year. Four alternative explanations for this disagreement are tested using the data. The results...

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Joining Panel Data with Cross-Sections for Efficiency Gains: An Application to a Consumption Equation for Nicaragua

Bruno, Randolph Luca; Stampini, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper explores how cross-sectional data can be exploited jointly with longitudinal data, in order to increase estimation efficiency while properly tackling the potential bias due to unobserved individual characteristics. We propose an innovative procedure and we show its implementation by...

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From Illegal to Legal: Estimating Previous Illegal Experience among New Legal Immigrants to the United States

Jasso, Guillermina; Massey, Douglas S.; Rosenzweig, Mark R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper develops a framework for estimating previous illegal experience among annual cohorts of new legal immigrants to the United States – using public-use administrative microdata alone, survey data alone, and the two jointly – and provides estimates for the FY 1996 cohort of new...

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Effects of Attrition and Non-Response in the Health and Retirement Study

Kapteyn, Arie; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Smith, James; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We study the effect of attrition and other forms of non-response on the representativity over time of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) sample born 1931-1941; the sample was initially drawn in 1992. Although some baseline characteristics of respondents do appear correlated with non-response over...

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