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Reconciling reports: modelling employment earnings and measurement errors using linked survey and administrative data

Jenkins, Stephen; Rios-Avila, Fernando - 2021

We contribute new UK evidence about measurement errors and employment earnings to a field dominated by findings about the USA. We develop and apply new econometric models for linked survey and administrative data that generalize those of Kapteyn and Ypma (Journal of Labor Economics, 2007). Our...

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Recruiting intensity and hiring practices: cross-sectional and time-series evidence

Lochner, Benjamin; Merkl, Christian; Stüber, Heiko; … - 2020

Using the German IAB Job Vacancy Survey, we look into the black box of recruiting intensity and hiring practices from the employers' perspective. Our paper evaluates three important channels for hiring - namely vacancy posting, the selectivity of hiring (labor selection), and the number of...

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P-hacking, data type and data-sharing policy

Brodeur, Abel; Cook, Nikolai; Neisser, Carina - 2022

In this paper, we examine the relationship between p-hacking and data-sharing policies for published articles. We collect 38,876 test statistics from 1,106 articles published in leading economic journals between 2002-2020. While a data-sharing policy increases the provision of research data to...

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How does consumption respond to news about inflation? : field evidence from a randomized control trial

Coibion, Olivier; Georgarakos, Dimitris; Gorodnichenko, … - 2019

We implement a survey of Dutch households in which random subsets of respondents receive information about inflation … evidence that this is likely driven by the fact that Dutch households seem to become more pessimistic about their real income …

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A bigger house at the cost of an empty fridge? : the effect of households' indebtedness on their consumption: micro-evidence using Belgian HFCS data

Du Caju, Philip; Périlleux, Guillaume; Rycx, François; … - 2021

This paper investigates the potentially non-linear relation between households' indebtedness and their consumption … previous studies, we find a negative effect of households' indebtedness on their consumption, even in the absence of negative …, rather than its overall sustainability, that leads households to reduce their consumption. We perform as well a threshold …

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Sometimes your best just ain't good enough : the worldwide evidence on well-being efficiency

Nikolova, Milena; Popova, Olga - 2017

, large households and those with children, while living in a city, freedom, generosity and social support improve efficiency …

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Why are pollution damages lower in developed countries? : insights from high-income, high-particulate matter Hong Kong

Colmer, Jonathan; Lin, Dajun; Liu, Siying; Shimshack, Jay P. - 2021

Conventional wisdom suggests that marginal damages from particulate matter pollution are high in less-developed countries because they are highly polluted. Using administrative data on the universe of births and deaths, we explore birthweight and mortality effects of gestational particulate...

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Do higher corporate taxes reduce wages?

Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2015

This paper estimates the incidence of corporate taxes on wages using a 20-year panel of German municipalities. Administrative linked employer-employee data allows estimating heterogeneous worker and firm effects. We set up a general theoretical framework showing that corporate taxes can have a...

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The effect of extended unemployment benefit on the job finding hazards : a quasi-experiment in Japan

Machikita, Tomohiro; Kohara, Miki; Sasaki, Masaru - 2013

This paper studies how changes in extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefit affect the duration of unemployment. We investigate this question by exploiting not only strict age thresholds but also the pre-displacement tenure and the reason for separation from the previous job in the Japanese...

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Employment and earnings effects of awarding training vouchers in Germany

Doerr, Annabelle; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kruppe, Thomas; … - 2014

In 2003, Germany moved from a system in which participants in training programs for the unemployed are assigned by caseworkers to an allocation system using vouchers. Based on the rich administrative data for all vouchers and on actual program participation, we provide inverse probability...

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