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Mapping 'Information Economy' Businesses with Big Data: Findings for the UK
Nathan, Max; Rosso, Anna; Bouet, Francois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Governments around the world want to develop their ICT and digital industries. Policymakers thus need a clear sense of the size and characteristics of digital businesses, but this is hard to do with conventional datasets and industry codes. This paper uses innovative 'big data' resources to...
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Nowcasting Business Cycles Using Toll Data
Askitas, Nikos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Nowcasting has been a challenge in the recent economic crisis. We introduce the Toll Index, a new monthly indicator for … business cycle forecasting and demonstrate its relevance using German data. The index measures the monthly transportation … coincident with production activity due to the prevalence of just-in-time delivery. The Toll Index is a good early indicator of …
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Surviving the Genocide: The Impact of the Rwandan Genocide on Child Mortality
Ciani, Federico; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Between April and July 1994 Rwanda experienced a tremendous wave of inter-ethnic violence that caused at least 500 …,000 deaths. Combining birth history data drawn from the 2000 Rwanda Demographic and Health Survey with prefecture …
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The Impact of Armed Conflict on Economic Performance: Evidence from Rwanda
Serneels, Pieter; Verpoorten, Marijke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Rwanda in the early 90s, and using micro data to carry out econometric analysis, this paper finds that households and …
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The Evolution of Rotation Group Bias: Will the Real Unemployment Rate Please Stand Up?
Krueger, Alan B.; Mas, Alexandre; Niu, Xiaotong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper documents that rotation group bias – the tendency for labor force statistics to vary systematically by month in sample in labor force surveys – in the Current Population Survey (CPS) has worsened considerably over time. The estimated unemployment rate for earlier rotation groups...
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Empirical Approaches to Inequality of Opportunity: Principles, Measures, and Evidence
Ramos, Xavi; Van de gaer, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We put together the different conceptual issues involved in measuring inequality of opportunity, discuss how these concepts have been translated into computable measures, and point out the problems and choices researchers face when implementing these measures. Our analysis identifies and...
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Does Employer Learning Vary by Schooling Attainment? The Answer Depends on How Career Start Dates Are Defined
Light, Audrey; McGee, Andrew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We demonstrate that empirical evidence of employer learning is sensitive to how one defines the career start date and, in turn, measures cumulative work experience. Arcidiacono, Bayer, and Hizmo (2010) find evidence of employer learning for high school graduates but not for college graduates,...
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Die Messung von Armut unter Berücksichtigung regional divergierender Lebenshaltungskosten und öffentlicher Leistungen
Hillringhaus, Tilman; Peichl, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Bislang beschränkt sich die Messung von Armut und Ungleichheit in der deutschen Armutsberichterstattung im Wesentlichen …
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Leaving Poverty Behind? The Effects of Generous Income Support Paired with Activation
Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
, stable, and non-means-tested benefit. Its main aims are to mitigate poverty and subsequently promote self …
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Minimum Wage: Does It Improve Welfare in Thailand?
Del Carpio, Ximena; Messina, Julián; Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We study the causal impact of the minimum wage on employment and welfare in Thailand using a difference-in-difference approach that relies on exogenous policy variation in minimum wages across provinces. We find that minimum-wage increases have small disemployment effects on female, elderly, and...
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