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Long-run effects of dynamically assigned treatments : a new methodology and an evaluation of training effects on earnings
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Vikström, Johan - 2019
certain state (e.g. unemployment) to be eligible for a treatment, treatments may commence at different points in time, and the … certain time in unemployment will leave unemployment before training while others will be trained later. We are interested in … effects of the treatment at a certain elapsed duration compared to "no treatment at any subsequent duration". We prove …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012035113
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Empirical Monte Carlo evidence on estimation of timing-of-events models
Lombardi, Stefano; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Vikström, Johan - 2021
approach provides accurate effect estimates, especially if time-varying variation in the unemployment rate of the local labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390913
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Then and now : reflections on two Australian mining booms
Gregory, Robert G. - 2011
Australia is experiencing its largest mining boom for more than a century and a half. This paper explores, from a national perspective, important economic differences that arise when a mining boom, such as the current one, is generated by export price increases (trading gains) rather than export...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009408694
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Human capital and growth : specification matters
Sunde, Uwe; Vischer, Thomas - 2011
This paper suggests that the weak empirical effect of human capital on growth in existing cross-country studies is partly the result of an inappropriate specification that does not account for the different channels through which human capital affects growth. A systematic replication of earlier...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009422482
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Monetary policy, growth and employment in developing areas : a review of the literature
Junankar, Pramod N. - 2019
In this paper we review the literature on the impact that monetary policy has on growth and employment in developing countries. Much of the literature focusses on the impact of monetary policy on inflation levels and inflation volatility, and sometimes on output (GDP) levels and volatility of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011988624
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Population aging and economic growth : from demographic dividend to demographic drag?
Kotschy, Rainer; Bloom, David E. - 2023
This paper examines the extent to which changes in working-age shares associated with population aging might slow economic growth in upcoming years. We first analyze the economic effects of changing working-age shares in a standard empirical growth model using country panel data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014326800
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Hazard analysis of unemployment duration by gender in a developing country : the case of Turkey
Tansel, Aysıt; Taşçi, H. Mehmet - 2010
There is little evidence on unemployment duration and its determinants in developing countries. This study is on the … duration aspect of unemployment in a developing country, Turkey. We analyze the determinants of the probability of leaving …. -- Unemployment duration ; hazard analysis ; gender ; Turkey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003944756
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Estimating the latent effect of unemployment benefits on unemployment duration
Lo, Simon M. S.; Stephan, Gesine; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2012
We estimate the effect of a shortening of unemployment benefit entitlements on unemployment duration. Previous studies …-in-differences ; unemployment duration ; unemployment benefits … on the same or related problems have not taken into account that the competing risks duration model is not identified and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009550688
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Estimating the probability of leaving unemployment using uncompleted spells from repeated cross-section data
Güell, Maia (contributor); Hu, Luojia (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001980156
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Different versions of the Easterlin Paradox : new evidence for European countries
Kaiser, Caspar F.; Vendrik, Maarten C. - 2018
Richer people are happier than poorer people, but when a country becomes richer over time, its people do not become happier. This seemingly contradictory pair of findings of Richard Easterlin has be-come famous as the Easterlin Paradox. However, it was met with counterevidence. To shed more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951423