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In this paper we investigate the dynamic adjustment of labour and capital in German and Dutch firms. The Dutch labour market is characterised by greater flexibility in wages and work arrangements in comparison to Germany. These institutional differences imply that employment dynamics in the two...
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This paper develops a model for dynamic binary choice panel data that allows for unobserved heterogeneity to be … eliminate the unobserved heterogeneity term and at the same time to identify the parameters of the model. We then propose GMM … finite sample performance of our GMM estimators. …
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The Great Chinese Famine of 1959-1961 is puzzling, since despite the high death rates, there is no discernable diminution in height amongst the majority of cohorts who were exposed to the famine in crucial growth years. An explanation is that shorter children experienced greater mortality and...
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graduates contributes to the gender pay gap, and the reasons underlying their distinct educational choices. The case of Greece … in the type of degree studied can explain an additional 8.4% of the male-female pay gap. Risk-augmented earnings …
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summarized. We distinguish ex ante from ex post returns. New panel data methods for estimating the uncertainty and psychic costs … and how the availability of repeated cross section and panel data improves the ability of analysts to estimate the rate of … rates of return that takes into account tuition, income taxes and forms of uncertainty. We also contrast estimates based on …
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detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data. Findings, robust to a large set of covariates, specifications and …
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The authors use matched employer-employee panel data on Belgian private-sector firms to estimate the relationship …
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on representative linked employer-employee panel data for Belgium covering the period 1999-2006. Controlling for …
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essential to account for market volatility. A key result is that firms’ value embodies the value of hiring and investment over …
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uncompleted spells from repeated cross-section data, which can be especially useful when panel data are not available. The …
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