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decades moving from a situation of low employment and limited labour market inequality to higher employment, but also more … inequality. Germany is a case in point as it exhibits growing employment figures and growing shares of low pay and non … policies and employment protection play a major role, but changes in industrial relations at the sectoral level and individual …
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We investigate the effect of forecast uncertainty in a cointegrating vector error correction model for Switzerland …
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. Prominent examples are childcare subsidies and in-work benefits. However, which policy works best for employment is largely …
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This study evaluates potential migration flows to the European Union from its eastern neighbors and Croatia. We perform out-of-sample forecasts using an adaption of the model of Hatton (1995) to time series cross-sectional data about post-enlargement migration flows following the EU's 2004...
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This paper performs a comparative analysis of estimation as well as of out-of-sample forecasting results of more than 20 estimators common in the panel data literature using the data on migration to Germany from 18 source countries in the period 1967-2001. Our results suggest that the choice of...
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This article introduces lassopack, a suite of programs for regularized regression in Stata. lassopack implements lasso, square-root lasso, elastic net, ridge regression, adaptive lasso and post-estimation OLS. The methods are suitable for the high-dimensional setting where the number of...
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performance outcomes we consider are involuntary exit, above-average employment growth, a return on assets of above 20 percent … derived from the BPS texts while an accurate prediction of startup survival and high employment growth needs the combination … purpose statement information (to predict high employment growth). These sets of variables are easily obtainable since the …
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re-employment within 6 months (RE6), for the same individuals sampled from the inflow into unemployment. First, they were …
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We explore the link between health indicators and employment rates of the population aged 55 or more. Our focus lies on … work capacity as a key determinant of employment. Using cohort mortality information as a proxy for overall health outcomes …
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) skills. These results support the complementarity view of the coexistence of student employment and low-skilled employment …
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