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The effect of firms' partial retirement policies on the labour market outcomes of their employees
Huber, Martin; Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2013
In this paper, we assess the impact of firms introducing part-time work schemes for gradual labour market exit of elderly workers on their employees’ labour market outcomes. The analysis is based on unique linked employer-employee data that combine high-quality survey and administrative data....
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A Note on the Relation of Weighting and Matching Estimators
Lechner, Michael - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2007
This paper compares the inverse-probability-of-selection-weighting estimation principle with the matching principle and … derives conditions for weighting and matching to identify the same and the true distribution, respectively. This comparison …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005200691
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Why do tougher caseworkers increase employment? The role of programme assignment as a causal mechanism
Huber, Martin; Mellace, Giovanni; Lechner, Michael - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2014
Previous research found that less accommodating caseworkers are more successful in placing unemployed workers into employment. This paper tries to shed more light on the causal mechanisms behind this result using semiparametric mediation analysis. Analysing very informative linked...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010779966
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Inflation, Unemployment and Economic Growth in a Schumpeterian Economy
Chu, Angus C.; Cozzi, Guido; Furukawa, Yuichi - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2013
This study analyzes the effects of inflation on the long-run nexus between unemployment and economic growth. We … model with matching frictions in the labor market. Given the CIA constraint on R&D, a higher inflation that raises the …-market tightness and increases unemployment. In summary, the model predicts a positive relationship between inflation and unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010699652
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A Test of the ‘Krugman Hypothesis’ for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany
Puhani, Patrick A. - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2003
Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005797652
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Radius matching on the propensity score with bias adjustment: finite sample behaviour, tuning parameters and software implementation
Huber, Martin; Lechner, Michael; Steinmayr, Andreas - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2012
that distance-weighted radius matching with bias adjustment as proposed in Lechner, Miquel and Wunsch (2011) is competitive …. In this paper, we further investigate the finite sample behaviour of radius matching with respect to various tuning …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010598867
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A note on difference-in-difference estimation by Fixed Effects and OLS when there is panel non-response
Fernández Kranz, Daniel; Lechner, Michael; … - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2015
In this note, we show that the OLS and fixed-effects (FE) estimators of the popular differ-ence-in-differences model may deviate when there is time varying panel non-response. If such non-response does not affect the common-trend assumption, then OLS and FE are consistent, but OLS is more...
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Quantile Regression in the Presence of Sample Selection
Huber, Martin; Melly, Blaise - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2011
Most sample selection models assume that the errors are independent of the regressors. Under this assumption, all quantile and mean functions are parallel, which implies that quantile estimators cannot reveal any (per definition non-existing) heterogeneity. However, quantile estimators are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008874628
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The Estimation of Causal Effects by Difference-in-Difference Methods
Lechner, Michael - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2010
non-linear DiD as well as DiD based on propensity-score type matching methods. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147112
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Testing instrument validity for LATE identification based on inequality moment constraints
Huber, Martin; Mellace, Giovanni - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2011
This paper proposes bootstrap tests for the validity of instrumental variables (IV) in just identified treatment effect models with endogeneity. We demonstrate that the IV assumptions required for the identification of the local average treatment effect (LATE) allow us to both point identify and...
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