Small area estimation techniques are becoming more and more important for the production of official data. Since 2002 ISTAT has applied small area estimation methods to disseminate estimates of employment and unemployment rates for local labour market areas; furthermore several experimental...

Small Area Estimation erlaubt die Schätzung regionaler Indikatoren anhand kleiner Stichproben. Hierfür werden Survey-Daten mehrerer Regionen in statistischen Modellen kombiniert. Aufgrund der Digitalisierung der Gesellschaft entstehen immer mehr zusätzliche Datenquellen, wie etwa Website- und...

Small Area Estimation erlaubt die Schätzung regionaler Indikatoren anhand kleiner Stichproben. Hierfür werden Survey-Daten mehrerer Regionen in statistischen Modellen kombiniert. Aufgrund der Digitalisierung der Gesellschaft entstehen immer mehr zusätzliche Datenquellen, wie etwa Website- und...

The paper analyzes effects of occupational and regional mobility on the matching rate using the monthly panel disaggregated on regional and occupational level. The main contribution of the paper is measuring the effect of substitutability between vacancies for different occupations and vacancies...

We develop a new concept of rural technology diffusion influenced by labor mobility and business relations. The technology gain effect of labor mobility increases technology diffusiveness, whereas the technology drain effect decreases it. The concept is applied to survey data from the Mekong...

The degree of comovement of economic activity across states or regions is an issue of utmost importance to policymakers. Asymmetric business cycles are often seen as an impediment to the formation of a common currency area. However, it has been argued that a common monetary policy in itself...

This paper employs a homogenous firms database to investigate industry localization in European countries. More specifically, we compare, across industries and countries, the predictions of two of the most popular localization indices, i.e., the Ellison and Glaeser index (Ellison and Glaeser,...