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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859286
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Macroeconomic Conditions and Health in Britain : Aggregation, Dynamics and Local Area Heterogeneity
Janke, Katharina - 2020
We estimate a model that allows for dynamic and interdependent responses of morbidity in different local areas to economic conditions at the local and national level, with statistical selection of optimal local area. We apply this approach to quarterly British data on chronic health conditions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838459
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Mortality and the Business Cycle : Evidence from Individual and Aggregated Data
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2017
showing that mortality is pro-cyclical whereas others find the opposite. Some suggest that the aggregation level of analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955001
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Spatial and Temporal Aggregation in the Estimation of Labor Demand Functions
Varejão, José - 2007
The consequences of aggregation, temporal or spatial, for the estimation of demand models are theoretically well … model at the most aggregated levels. Indeed, the results for quadratic adjustment costs confirm that aggregation along both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777084
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Employer-to-Employer Transitions and Time Aggregation Bias
Bertheau, Antoine; Vejlin, Rune - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083905
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129942
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Effect or Treatment Heterogeneity? Policy Evaluation with Aggregated and Disaggregated Treatments
Heiler, Phillip; Knaus, Michael - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243598
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Happiness and Growth the World Over : Time Series Evidence on the Happiness-Income Paradox
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2009
There is no significant relationship between the improvement in happiness and the long term rate of growth of GDP per capita. This is true for three groups of countries analyzed separately - 17 developed, 9 developing, and 11 transition - and also for the 37 countries taken together. Time series...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764241
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012981512
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Federal Minimum Wage Hikes Do Reduce Teenage Employment : The Time Series Effects of Minimum Wages in the US Revisited
Bazen, Stephen - 2016
In 2002 we published a paper in which we used state space time series methods to analyse the teenage employment‐federal minimum wage relationship in the US (Bazen and Marimoutou, 2002). The study used quarterly data for the 46 year period running from 1954 to 1999. We detected a small,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993959