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. …

This paper provides a novel approach to forecasting time series subject to discrete structural breaks. We propose a …

Italy do relatively poorly. Yet the explanation for this ranking – one that holds even after adjustment for GDP and socio …

differences in (short-term) GDP fluctuations between origin countries and U.S. states, and perhaps to (long-term) trend GDP … differences as well. More specifically, short-run GDP fluctuations pull less-educated male immigrants into certain U.S. states …, whereas GDP trends push less-educated male immigrants out of their countries of origin. Effects for less-educated women are …

-being responds negatively (positively) to an increase in the GDP (unemployment rate) of their home country. That is, we originally …

. Internet data can successfully be applied to a very wide range of human resource issues including forecasting (e.g. of …