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Sensitivity of Matching-Based Program Evaluations to the Availability of Control Variables

Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - 2021

Based on new, exceptionally informative and large German linked employer-employee administrative data, we investigate the question whether the omission of important control variables in matching estimation leads to biased impact estimates of typical active labour market programs for the...

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Optimal Use of Labor Market Policies : The Role of Job Search Assistance

Wunsch, Conny - 2010

This paper studies the role of job search assistance programs in optimal welfare-to-work programs. The analysis is based on a framework, that allows for endogenous choice of benefit types and levels, wage taxes or subsidies, and activation measures such as monitoring and job search assistance...

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How Does the Market Use Citation Data? The Hirsch Index in Economics

Ellison, Glenn - 2010

A large literature following Hirsch (2005) has proposed citation-based indexes that could be used to rank academics. This paper examines how well several such indexes match labor market outcomes using data on the citation records of young tenured economists at 25 U.S. departments. Variants of...

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Business Cycle Asymmetries and the Labor Market

Kohlbrecher, Britta - 2016

This paper shows that the matching function and the Beveridge curve in the United States exhibit strong nonlinearities over the business cycle. These patterns can be replicated by enhancing a search and matching model with idiosyncratic productivity shocks for new contacts. Large negative...

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Firm Level Productivity Under Imperfect Competition in Output and Labor Markets

Amoroso, Sara - 2010

This article examines the role of the interaction between product market and labor market imperfections in determining total factor productivity growth (TFPG). Embedding Dobbelaere and Mairesse's (2009) generalization of Hall's (1990) approach, allowing for the possibility that wages are...

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China's Pure Exporter Subsidies

Defever, Fabrice - 2013

domestic market. A counterfactual analysis suggests that eliminating these subsidies would result in a welfare gain for China …

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Managing Trade : Evidence from China and the US

Bloom, Nicholas - 2019

improving production efficiency and product quality in both countries, but it matters more in China than in the US, especially …

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Trade Flows and Trade Specialisation : The Case of China

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2015

Using annual data for the period 1992-2012, this paper examines trade flows between China and its main trade partners … in China's trade patterns. The analysis is based on both economic indicators and the estimation of a gravity model, and … fixed effect vector decomposition (FEVD) technique. The findings confirm the significant change in China's trading structure …

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Exchange Rate Pass-Through, Domestic Competition, and Inflation : Evidence from the 2005/08 Revaluation of the Renminbi

Auer, Raphael - 2015

This paper quantifies the effect of the government-controlled appreciation of the Chinese renminbi (RMB) vis-à-vis the USD from 2005 to 2008 on the prices charged by US producers. As the RMB during that time was pegged to a basket of currencies, the empirical strategy must account for the fact...

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Does the Chinese Interest Rate Follow the US Interest Rate?

Cheung, Yin-Wong - 2013

One argument for floating the Chinese renminbi (RMB) is to insulate China's monetary policy from the US effect. However … US dollar, China has alternative measures to retain its policy independence and de-link its interest rates from the US … rate. In other words, the argument for a flexible RMB to insulate China's monetary policy from the US effect is not …

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