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Dynamics of Labor Demand : Evidence from Plant-level Observations and Aggregate Implications
Cooper, Russel W. - 2004
This paper studies the dynamics of labor demand at the plant and aggregate levels. The correlation of hours and employment growth is negative at the plant level and positive in aggregate time series. Further, hours and employment growth are about equally volatile at the plant level while hours...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468397
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Does the Sector Bias of Skill-Biased Technical Change Explain Changing Wage Inequality?
Haskel, Jonathan E. - 1998
sector bias of sbtc during the 1970s and 1980s. The hypothesis is also strongly supported by more structural estimation on U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472244
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International Trade and Labor-Demand Elasticities
Slaughter, Matthew J. - 1997
In this paper I try to determine whether international trade has been increasing the own-price elasticity of demand for U.S. labor in recent years. The empirial work yields three main results. First, from 1960 through 1990 demand for U.S. production labor became more elastic in manufacturing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472549
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Sign Restrictions, Structural Vector Autoregressions, and Useful Prior Information
Baumeister, Christiane - 2014
This paper makes the following original contributions to the literature. (1) We develop a simpler analytical characterization and numerical algorithm for Bayesian inference in structural vector autoregressions that can be used for models that are overidentified, just-identified, or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457925
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Wages and Informality in Developing Countries
Meghir, Costas - 2012
It is often argued that informal labor markets in developing countries promote growth by reducing the impact of regulation. On the other hand informality may reduce the amount of social protection offered to workers. We extend the wage-posting framework of Burdett and Mortensen (1998) to allow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460313
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Endogenous Skill Acquisition and Export Manufacturing in Mexico
Atkin, David - 2012
This paper presents empirical evidence that the growth of export manufacturing in Mexico during a period of major trade reforms, the years 1986-2000, altered the distribution of education. I use variation in the timing of factory openings across commuting zones to show that school dropout...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460393
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The Phillips Curve is Back? Using Panel Data to Analyze the Relationship Between Unemployment and Inflation in an Open Economy
DiNardo, John - 1999
panel data to estimate the textbook 'expectations augmented' Phillips curve with a market-based and observable measure of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471456
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Estimating Distributed Lags in Short Panels with an Application to the Specification of Depreciation Patterns and Capital Stock Constructs
Pakes, Ariel - 1982
distributed lag relationships based on single time-series of observations have been usually rather imprecise. The promise of panel … which are, at least in part, testable, and outline appropriate estimation techniques. The first places reasonable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478174
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Multiple Time-Serie3 Models Applied to Panel Data
MaCurdy, Thomas E. - 1981
This study presents a general methodology for fitting multiple time series models to panel data. The basic statistical … panel data, and it identifies those instances in which procedures found in the time series literature cannot be directly … applied to analyze longitudinal data. Data analysis techniques in the tine series literature are adapted for panel data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478475
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Inappropriate Pooling of Wealthy and Poor Countries in Empirical FDI Studies
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2004
This paper examines the question of whether less-developed countries' (LDCs') experiences with foreign direct investment (FDI) systematically different from those of developed countries (DCs). We do this by examining three types of empirical FDI studies that typically do not distinguish between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468315