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Macroeconometric Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policies in Austria

Dauth, Wolfgang - 2010

This paper contributes to the literature on macroeconometric evaluation of active labour market policies (ALMP) by considering the regional effects on both the matching process and the job-seeker rate. We use an unique new data set on all Austrian job-seekers between 2001 to 2007 and apply GMM...

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Counterfactual Analysis in Macroeconometrics : An Empirical Investigation into the Effects of Quantitative Easing

Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2012

This paper is concerned with ex ante and ex post counterfactual analyses in the case of macroeconometric applications where a single unit is observed before and after a given policy intervention. It distinguishes between cases where the policy change affects the model's parameters and where it...

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Beyond the DSGE Straitjacket

Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2011

Academic macroeconomics and the research department of central banks have come to be dominated by Dynamic, Stochastic, General Equilibrium (DSGE) models based on micro-foundations of optimising representative agents with rational expectations. We argue that the dominance of this particular sort...

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Econometric Models of Fertility

Miranda, Alfonso - 2020

This paper reviews some key contributions to econometric analysis of human fertility in the last 20 years, with special focus on discussion of prevailing econometric modeling strategies. We focus on the literature that highlights the role of the key drivers of the birth outcomes, including age...

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The Aggregate Labor Market Effects of the Swedish Knowledge Lift Program

Albrecht, James W.; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Vroman, … - 2021

The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997-2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of low-skill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labor market outcomes. This is done...

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Phillips Curves and Unemployment Dynamics : A Critique and a Holistic Perspective

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector; Snower, Dennis J. - 2021

The conventional wisdom that inflation and unemployment are unrelated in the long-run implies the compartmentalisation of macroeconomics. While one branch of the literature models inflation dynamics and estimates the unemployment rate compatible with inflation stability, another one determines...

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Comparing Micro-Evidence on Rent Sharing from Two Different Econometric Models

Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2017

Researchers contributing to the empirical rent-sharing literature have typically resorted to estimating the responsiveness of workers' wages on firms' ability to pay in order to assess the extent to which employers share rents with their employees. This paper compares rent-sharing estimates...

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How Many Hours Do You Have to Work to Be Integrated? Full Time and Part Time Employment of Native and Ethnic Minority Women in the Netherlands

Bevelander, Pieter; Groeneveld, Sandra - 2007

the employment patterns of ethnic minority and native women in the Netherlands. In particular, we analyze to what extent …

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The Labour Market Position of Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands : Reason for Migration, Naturalisation and Language Proficiency

Euwals, Rob; Dagevos, Jaco; Gijsberts, Mérove; … - 2007

). First, we find that educational attainment and language proficiency have a higher return in the Netherlands than in Germany … language proficiency. Third, for the Netherlands we find a positive relation between naturalisation and labour market position … Netherlands, and this may lead to a stronger incentive to naturalise for workers with a temporary contract …

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Immigration, Integration and the Labour Market : Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands

Euwals, Rob; Dagevos, Jaco; Gijsberts, Mérove; … - 2007

Germany and the Netherlands. We compare labour market outcomes of Turkish immigrants, including both the first and second … employment and tenured job rate remains large for the Netherlands, while the standardized gap in the job prestige score remains … large for Germany. Differences in past immigration policies between Germany and the Netherlands are likely to be important …

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