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Patacchini, Eleonora; Arduini, Tiziano - 2016

Using detailed data on a cohort of young Americans who were in their late twenties and early thirties in 2008, we investigate the importance of forces different from economic incentives in nest-leaving decisions. We apply recent methods from social network econometrics to identify the importance...

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Iassopack : model selection and prediction with regularized regression in stata

Ahrens, Achim; Hansen, Christian Bailey; Schaffer, Mark E. - 2019

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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Nowcasting business cycles using toll data

Askitas, Nikos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 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 activity performed by heavy transport vehicles across...

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Labour market expectations and unemployment in Europe

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2023

Unemployment is notoriously difficult to predict. In previous studies, once country and year fixed effects are added to panel estimates, few variables predict changes in unemployment rates. Using panel data for 29 European countries collected by the European Commission over 444 months between...

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Assessing forecast uncertainties in a VECX model for Switzerland : an exercise in forecast combination across models and observation windows

Assenmacher-Wesche, Katrin (contributor); … - 2007

We investigate the effect of forecast uncertainty in a cointegrating vector error correction model for Switzerland. Forecast uncertainty is evaluated in three different dimensions. First, we investigate the effect on forecasting performance of averaging over forecasts from different models....

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The fundamental properties, stability and predictive power of distributional preferences

Fehr, Ernst; Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien - 2023

Parsimony is a desirable feature of economic models but almost all human behaviors are characterized by vast individual variation that appears to defy parsimony. How much parsimony do we need to give up to capture the fundamental aspects of a population's distributional preferences and to...

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Non-farm enterprise productivity and spatial autocorrelation in rural Africa : evidence from Ethiopia and Nigeria

Owoo, Nkechi S.; Naudé, Wim - 2014

proximate farm and non-farm enterprises. To test for the presence and significance of such spatial autocorrelation we use data … (NGHS). We find evidence of significant spatial autocorrelation. Productivity of non-farm enterprises is widely dispersed … productive. In Nigeria, we find evidence for spatial autocorrelation at the individual enterprise level but not at the community …

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Exports and labour demand : searching for functional structure in multi-output multi-skill technologies

Koebel, Bertrand M. (contributor) - 2005

In order to simplify the representation of a technological relationship between inputs and outputs, a production unit's technology must typically satisfy some restrictive conditions, some of them being well known in the literature. This paper presents new results for aggregating labour inputs...

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Ethnic regional networks and immigrants' earnings: a spatial autoregressive network approach

Wang, Xingang; Maani, Sholeh A. - 2021

The conventional model of immigrant earnings does not account for the correlation of outcomes across immigrant ethnic networks. We apply a spatial autoregressive network approach to account for the spill-over effects of migrant ethnic group economic resources and labour market outcomes. We...

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Network effects on labor contracts of internal migrants in China : a spatial autoregressive model

Baltagi, Badi H.; Deng, Ying; Ma, Xiangjun - 2017

This paper studies the fact that 37 percent of the internal migrants in China do not sign a labor contract with their employers, as revealed in a nationwide survey. These contract-free jobs pay lower hourly wages, require longer weekly work hours, and provide less insurance or on-the-job...

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