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Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth for Chinese Provinces : A Panel Data Analysis
Shiu, Alice - 2006
We present in this paper the panel econometrics estimation approach of measuring the technical change and total factor … productivity (TFP) growth of 30 Chinese provinces during the period of 1993 to 2003. The random effects model with heteroscedastic …
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Business Taxation and Wages : Evidence from Individual Panel Data
Bauer, Thomas K. - 2012
Empirical evidence on the degree of business-tax shifting to employees via the wage level is highly controversial and rare. It remains open to which extent the tax burden is shifted, whether there are differences for tax increases and decreases, or whether there exists some treatment...
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A New View on Panel Econometrics : Is Probit Feasible after All?
van Praag, B.M.S. - 2015
we demonstrate that in this extended setup Probit estimation on panel data sets does not pose a specific problem. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015010
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Household Finances and the 'Big Five' Personality Traits
Brown, Sarah - 2011
We explore the relationship between household finances and personality traits from an empirical perspective. Specifically, using individual level data drawn from the British Household Panel Survey, we analyse the influence of personality traits on financial decision-making at the individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117198
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A Flexible Sample Selection Model : A Gtl-Copula Approach
Hasebe, Takuya - 2012
In this paper, we propose a new approach to estimating sample selection models that combines Generalized Tukey Lambda (GTL) distributions with copulas. The GTL distribution is a versatile univariate distribution that permits a wide range of skewness and thick- or thin-tailed behavior in the data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097862
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Robust Estimation of Wage Dispersion with Censored Data : An Application to Occupational Earnings Risk and Risk Attitudes
Pollmann, Daniel - 2012
We present a semiparametric method to estimate group-level dispersion, which is particularly effective in the presence of censored data. We apply this procedure to obtain measures of occupation-specific wage dispersion using top-coded administrative wage data from the German IAB Employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107726
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Charitable Behaviour and the Big Five Personality Traits : Evidence from UK Panel Data
Brown, Sarah - 2015
This paper investigates the association between personality traits and charitable behaviour, namely donations of time and money, using data from Understanding Society, the most recent large scale UK household longitudinal survey. Due to the censored nature of the outcome variables, i.e. some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015950
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Tobit or Not Tobit?
Stewart, Jay - 2009
-diary data ﾖ Tobit, the Cragg (1971) two-part model, and OLS ﾖ under a number of alternative assumptions about the data … Tobit would seem to be the natural approach. However, it is important to recognize that the zeros in time-use data arise … much longer. Thus it is not clear that Tobit is appropriate. In this study, I examine the bias associated with alternative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153494
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Wages and Employment of French Workers with African Origin
Aeberhardt, Romain - 2007
Our study proposes an econometric decomposition of the wage gap and of the difference in employment probabilities between French workers whose both parents had French citizenship at birth and French workers whose at least one parent had the citizenship of an African country at birth. For that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776515
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The Assimilation of Young Workers into the Labour Market in France : A Stochastic Earnings Frontier Approach
Bazen, Stephen - 2017
Stochastic earnings frontiers have been used in a relatively small number of papers to analyse workers' ability to capture their full potential earnings in labour markets where there is inefficient job matching (due to lack of information, discrimination, over-education or during process of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952612