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New Facts About Factor-Demand Dynamics : Employment, Jobs, and Workers

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Hassink, Wolter H.J; van Ours, Jan C. - 2021

We provide a unified discussion of the relations among flows of workers, changes in employment and changes in the number of jobs at the level of the firm. Using the only available set of data (a nationally representative sample of Dutch firms in 1988 and 1990) we discover that: 1) Nearly half of...

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Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space

Henderson, J. Vernon - 2010

GDP growth is often measured poorly for countries and rarely measured at all for cities or subnational regions. We propose a readily available proxy: satellite data on lights at night. We develop a statistical framework that uses lights growth to augment existing income growth measures, under...

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The Lifecycle of the 47%

Fullerton, Don - 2016

We assess the concentration and duration of zero tax liabilities and of transfer receipts, using data for households with ten to forty years of observations from the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics. We find that neither is strongly concentrated. Nearly 68% owe no federal tax in at least one...

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Tall or Taller, Pretty or Prettier : Is Discrimination Absolute or Relative?

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2012

Using several microeconomic data sets from the United States and the Netherlands, and the examples of height and beauty …

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What Calls to Arms? International Evidence on Interest Rates and the Choice of Adjustable-Rate Mortgages

Badarinza, Cristian - 2014

The relative popularity of adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) and fixed-rate mort- gages (FRMs) varies considerably both across countries and over time. We ask how movements in current and expected future interest rates affect the share of ARMs in total mortgage issuance. Using a nine-country...

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Changing Inequality in Markets for Workplace Amenities

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2021

We know that earnings inequality has increased sharply in the United States since the late 1970s, but there has been no evidence on the changing inequality of nonmonetary aspects of work nor on how any such changes are related to changes in earnings. I begin by studying patterns of interindustry...

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Peer Effects in European Primary Schools : Evidence from Pirls

Ammermueller, Andreas; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2021

We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...

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Using Weights to Adjust for Sample Selection When Auxiliary Information is Available

Nevo, Aviv - 2001

In this paper I analyze GMM estimation when the sample is not a random draw from the population of interest. I exploit … auxiliary information, in the form of moments from the population of interest, in order to compute weights that are proportional … Dutch Transportation Panel, in which refreshment draws were taken from the population of interest in order to deal with …

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Four Centuries of Return Predictability

Golez, Benjamin - 2015

We combine annual stock market data for the most important equity markets of the last four centuries: the Netherlands …

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How Financially Literate are Women? An Overview and New Insights

Bucher-Koenen, Tabea - 2015

We document strikingly similar gender differences in financial literacy across countries. When asked to answer questions that measure knowledge of basic financial concepts, women are less likely than men to answer correctly and more likely to indicate that they do not know the answer. In...

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