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Compulsory schooling reforms, education and mortality in twentieth century Europe
Gathmann, Christina; Jürges, Hendrik; Reinhold, Steffen - 2012
mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282359
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Determinants of Union Membership in 18 EU Countries : Evidence from Micro Data, 2002/03
Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2005
varies considerably in Europe, ranging from 84 per cent in Denmark to 11 per cent in Portugal. Estimating identical models …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262190
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Education and Earnings Growth: Evidence from 11 European Countries
Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona - 2000
We use cohort data from 11 European countries to study whether experience profiles differ by educational attainment. Previous literature does not provide a clear answer to this question, that is important to evaluate private returns to education over the working life of individuals. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262356
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On the Complementarity between Education and Training in Europe
Brunello, Giorgio - 2001
This paper is an empirical investigation of the complementarity between education and training in 13 European countries, based on the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). After confirming the standard result that training incidence is higher among individuals with more education, I find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262515
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On the estimation and forecasting of international migration: how relevant is heterogeneity across countries?
Brücker, Herbert; Siliverstovs, Boriss - 2005
This paper performs a comparative analysis of estimation as well as of out-of-sample forecasting results of more than … period 1967-2001. Our results suggest that the choice of an estimation procedure has a substantial impact on the parameter … estimates of the migration function. Out-of-sample forecasting results indicate the following: (i) the standard fixed effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267584
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Forecasting with spatial panel data
Baltagi, Badi H.; Bresson, Georges; Pirotte, Alain - 2009
This paper compares various forecasts using panel data with spatial error correlation. The true data generating process is assumed to be a simple error component regression model with spatial remainder disturbances of the autoregressive or moving average type. The best linear unbiased predictor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268987
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Forecasting Time Series Subject to Multiple Structural Breaks
Timmermann, Allan; Pettenuzzo, Davide; Pesaran, … - 2004
This paper provides a novel approach to forecasting time series subject to discrete structural breaks. We propose a … Bayesian estimation and prediction procedure that allows for the possibility of new breaks over the forecast horizon, taking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276180
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Prediction markets for economic forecasting
Snowberg, Erik; Wolfers, Justin; Zitzewitz, Eric - 2012
Prediction markets - markets used to forecast future events - have been used to accurately forecast the outcome of political contests, sporting events, and, occasionally, economic outcomes. This chapter summarizes the latest research on prediction markets in order to further their utilization by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287666
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Predictability of asset returns and the efficient market hypothesis
Pesaran, Mohammad Hashem - 2010
This paper is concerned with empirical and theoretical basis of the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH). The paper begins with an overview of the statistical properties of asset returns at different frequencies (daily, weekly and monthly), and considers the evidence on return predictability, risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276268
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Are Wages in Southern Europe More Flexible? : The Effects of Cohort Size on European Earnings
Brunello, Giorgio; Lauer, Charlotte - 2004
study how cohort size has affected real earnings in Europe. When we pool the data of all countries, we find that cohort size …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262046