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Google Econometrics and Unemployment Forecasting

Askitas, Nikos - 2012

The current economic crisis requires fast information to predict economic behavior early, which is difficult at times of structural changes. This paper suggests an innovative new method of using data on internet activity for that purpose. It demonstrates strong correlations between keyword...

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An Oaxaca Decomposition for Nonlinear Models

Bazen, Stephen - 2016

The widely used Oaxaca decomposition applies to linear models. Extending it to commonly used nonlinear models such as duration models is not straightforward. This paper shows that the original decomposition that uses a linear model can also be obtained by an application of the mean value...

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Employer-to-Employer Transitions and Time Aggregation Bias

Bertheau, Antoine; Vejlin, Rune Majlund - 2022

The rate at which workers switch employers without experiencing a spell of unemployment is one of the most important labor market indicators. However, Employer-to-Employer (EE) transitions are hard to measure in widely used matched employer-employee datasets such as those available in the US. We...

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Aggregation and Labor Supply Elasticities

Kneip, Alois - 2013

statistical aggregation procedure which allows for worker heterogeneity in observables and unobservables and is applicable to an …

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Aggregation in Large Dynamic Panels

Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2011

This paper considers the problem of aggregation in the case of large linear dynamic panels, where each micro unit is … Pesaran (2003), an optimal aggregate function is derived, and the limiting behavior of the aggregation error is investigated … which ﾑobservedﾒ inflation persistence at the aggregate level is due to aggregation and/or common unobserved factors. Our …

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Endogenous Local Labour Markets, Regional Aggregation and Agglomeration Economies

Meekes, Jordy - 2019

This paper examines the role of regional aggregation in measuring agglomeration externalities. Using Dutch … effect of employment density on workers' wages increases in the level of regional aggregation, explained by larger … higher levels of regional aggregation …

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Effect or Treatment Heterogeneity? Policy Evaluation with Aggregated and Disaggregated Treatments

Heiler, Phillip; Knaus, Michael C. - 2022

Binary treatments are often ex-post aggregates of multiple treatments or can be disaggregated into multiple treatment versions. Thus, effects can be heterogeneous due to either effect or treatment heterogeneity. We propose a decomposition method that uncovers masked heterogeneity, avoids...

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The Econometrics of Antidotal Variables

Das, Tirthatanmoy; Polachek, Solomon W. - 2022

Some interventions or population attributes negate the effects of a treatment. This paper shows that incorporating these, what we call antidotal variables (AV), into a causal treatment effects analysis can with one cross-sectional regression identify the true causal effect, in addition to...

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Long Memory in Turkish Unemployment Rates

Gil-Alaña, Luis A. - 2017

In this paper we have examined the unemployment rate series in Turkey by using long memory models and in particular employing fractionally integrated techniques. Our results suggest that unemployment in Turkey is highly persistent, with orders of integration equal to or higher than 1 in most...

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What is the Added Value of Preschool? Long-Term Impacts and Interactions with a Health Intervention

Rossin-Slater, Maya - 2016

We study the impact of targeted high quality preschool over the life cycle and across generations, and examine its interaction with a health intervention during infancy. Using administrative data from Denmark together with variation in the timing of program implementation between 1933 and 1960,...

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