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A Dynamic Panel Data Approach to the Forecasting of the GDP of German Länder

Kholodilin, Konstantin Arkadievich; Siliverstovs, Boriss; … - 2007

In this paper, we make multi-step forecasts of the annual growth rates of the real GDP for each of the 16 German Länder (states) simultaneously. Beside the usual panel data models, such as pooled and fixed-effects models, we apply panel models that explicitly account for spatial dependence...

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Job matching in connected regional and occupational labour markets

Fedorets, Alexandra; Lottmann, Franziska; Stops, Michael - In: Regional Studies 53 (2019) 8, pp. 1085-1098

Job mobility equilibrates disparities in local labour markets and influences the job-matching efficiency. We specify a … matching function with regional, occupational and combined regional–occupational spillovers of unemployed and vacancies. To … be used for designing macro-oriented policies aiming to improve job matching. …

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Determinants of FDI attraction in the manufacturing sector in Mexico, 1999-2015

Fonseca, Felipe J.; Llamosa-Rosas, Irving - 2018

Using an up-to-date database that improves the identification of the destination of the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) among Mexican states and spatial panel econometric models that quantify the potential interactions and spillover effects, we analyze the main characteristics that help...

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Public versus private sector wage gap in Egypt: Evidence from quantile regression on panel data

Tansel, Aysit; Keskin, Halil İbrahim; Özdemir, Abidin - 2018

This paper considers the public and private sector wage earners in Egypt and examines their wage distribution during 1998-2012 using Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We estimate the public-private sector wage gap with Mincer wage equations both at the mean and at different quantiles of the...

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Exploring the nexus between inflation and globalization under inflation targeting through the lens of New Zealand's experience

Kabukçuoğlu, Ayşe; Martínez-García, Enrique; … - 2017

We investigate empirically the inflation dynamics in New Zealand, a small open economy and a pioneer in inflation targeting, under various open-economy Phillips curve specifications. Our forecasting exercise suggests that open-economy Phillips curves under standard measures of global slack do...

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Convergence Patterns at the Industrial Level: the Dynamics of Comparative Advantage

Burgstaller, Johann; Landesmann, Michael; Stehrer, Robert - 1999

Although there exists a vast literature on convergence and divergence issue at the aggregate level, there is only little work on convergence and/or divergence processes of productivity and wage levels at the more disaggregated industrial level. These are especially important in the context of...

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What is Happening to Growth in Europe?

Dobrinsky, Rumen - 2013

The paper undertakes an empirical analytical assessment of some of the determinants of economic growth in the EU during the past decade, with a specific focus on the Central and Eastern European (CEE) members of the EU. The methodology is based on a combination of different statistical methods...

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Economic Convergence and Structural Change: the Role of Transition and EU Accession

Dobrinsky, Rumen; Havlik, Peter - 2014

This paper analyses the speed and patterns of economic convergence in the new EU Member States of Central and Eastern Europe during transition and the first years of EU membership. After a brief discussion of measurement and data issues, the paper provides stylised facts on growth and...

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Is it just Luring Reported Profit? The Case of European Patent Boxes

Köthenbürger, Marko; Liberini, Federica; Stimmelmayr, … - 2018

Patent box regimes have become increasingly popular as an instrument to attract taxable income from intellectual property (IP). This paper assesses the quantitative impact of patent box regimes on profit shifting by multinational enterprises (MNEs). We proxy the ability to access the tax benefit...

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Job matching on connected regional and occupational labor markets

Fedorets, Alexandra; Stops, Michael; Lottmann, Franziska - 2017

Job mobility equilibrates disparities on local labor markets and influences the efficiency of the job matching process …. In this paper, we describe a job matching model that allows for simultaneous regional and occupational mobility … occupations in distinct regions. We specify a matching function for these local labor markets with regional spillovers …

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