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Export take-offs and acceleration : unpacking cross-sector linkages in the evolution of comparative advantage

Bahar, Dany; Rosenow, Samuel; Stein, Ernesto; Wagner, … - 2018

The transition into non-traditional export activities attracts important policy and academic attention. Using international trade data, we explore how alternative linkages relate to the take-off and acceleration of export industries. Concretely, we run a horse-race among alternative Marshallian...

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Davies, Benjamin; Maré, David Christopher - 2019

We derive a measure of the relatedness between economic activities based on weighted correlations of local employment … quality between geographic areas with different sizes. We examine the contribution of relatedness and complexity to urban … dense with related activities. Relatedness and complexity appear to be most relevant for analysing how large, complex cities …

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Child penalty in Russia: evidence from an event study

Lebedinski, Lara; Perugini, Cristiano; Vladisavljević, … - 2020

Despite years of women's progress toward equality, gender disparities in the labour market persist, and parenthood has been identified as one of its key drivers. In this paper we investigate the child penalty in Russia by using longitudinal data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey...

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On event study designs and distributed-lag models : equivalence, generalization and practical implications

Schmidheiny, Kurt; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2019

We discuss important features and pitfalls of panel-data event study designs. We derive the following main results: First, event study designs and distributed-lag models are numerically identical leading to the same parameter estimates after correct reparametrization. Second, binning of effect...

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Comments on the 2023 draft merger guidelines : a labor market perspective

Berger, David; Hasenzagl, Thomas; Herkenhoff, Kyle; … - 2023

The DOJ and FTC clarify the role of labor market power ("monopsony") in the 2023 draft merger guidelines. The draft states in Guideline 11 that the structural presumption threshold applies to labor market concentration, while also suggesting that a stricter threshold may be warranted in labor...

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Determinants of pollution abatement and control expenditure : evidence from Romania

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2008

The aim of the present study is to shed some light on the factors affecting Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure … and control expenditure ; transition economy ; Multilevel Regression Model (MRM) …

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Screening disability insurance applications

Jong, Philip R. de (contributor); … - 2006

This paper investigates the effects of intensified screening of disability insurance benefit applications. A large-scale experiment was setup where in 2 of the 26 Dutch regions case workers of the disability insurance administration were instructed to screen applications more intense. The...

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Is the notification of monitoring a threat to the unemployed? : A regression discontinuity approach

Cockx, Bart (contributor); Dejemeppe, Muriel (contributor) - 2007

In July 2004, the Belgian government intensified monitoring within the Unemployment Insurance scheme. Workers claiming unemployment benefits for more than 13 months are notified that past job-search behavior will be monitored 8 months later. In one region the target group is counseled shortly...

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Monitoring, sanctions and front-loading of job search in a non-stationary model

Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel; Launov, Andrey; Van der … - 2011

We develop and estimate a non-stationary job search model to evaluate a scheme that monitors job search effort and sanctions insured unemployed whose effort is deemed insufficient. The model reveals that such schemes provide incentives to the unemployed to front-load search effort prior to...

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Click'n'roll : no evidence of illusion of control

Filippin, Antonio; Crosetto, Paolo - 2015

Evidence of Illusion of Control - the fact that people believe to have control over pure chance events - is a recurrent … dissonant result across disciplines is due to the fact that economists have implemented only one form of illusory control. We … identify and separately tests in an incentive-compatible design two types of control: a) over the resolution of uncertainty, as …

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