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Is universal child care leveling the playing field?

Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2012

Many developed countries currently consider a move towards a universal child care program. The challenge in assessing the case for universal child care programs is that the evidence base is scarce. We analyze the staged expansion of subsidized, universally accessible child care in Norway. Our...

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From macro growth to disaggragated production studies

Førsund, Finn R.; Vislie, Jon - 2011

heterogeneity. The impact of these factors on the nature of economic growth at the macro level is the point of departure of … structural change at the industry level is the short-run function capturing the underlying heterogeneity of the technologies of …

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Earning distribution and labour supply after a retirement earnings test reform

Hernæs, Erik; Jia, Zhiyang - 2012

Norwegian administrative data are used to evaluate the impact of a doubling of the threshold in the retirement earnings test. We find almost no impact on the extensive margin, but a positive effect on the intensive margin. This positive effect is uneven over the earnings distribution, and...

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Age-cohort-time effects in sickness absence: Exploring a large data set by polynomial regression

Biørn, Erik - 2013

and fourth-order polynomials on the other. Representing heterogeneity by cohort effects is compared with representing … heterogeneity by random and fixed individual effects. On the whole, the age coefficients in the estimated regressions are quite … sensitive to how heterogeneity is modeled. …

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Estimating SUR systems wiht random coefficients: The unbalanced panel data case

Biørn, Erik - 2012

A system of regression equations (SURE) for analyzing panel data with random heterogeneity in intercepts and …

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Heterogeneidade produtiva a na agricultura brasileira: Elementos estruturais e dinâmicos de trajetória produtiva recente

dos Santos, Gesmar Rosa; Filho, José Eustáquio … - 2012

This study addresses the structural heterogeneity and production of Brazilian agriculture. Economic indicators of labor … productivity, specialization and income concentration in agriculture are analyzed. The structural heterogeneity can be evidenced … discussing the structural and productive issues that lead to heterogeneity in agriculture. We show a high specialization and …

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Heterogeneity in time preference in older households

Bozio, Antoine; Laroque, Guy; O'Dea, Cormac - 2013

used to estimate the discount rates of households. We show that there is substantial heterogeneity in discounting behaviour …

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The macro-dynamics of sorting between workers and firms

Lise, Jeremy; Robin, Jean-Marc - 2013

We develop an equilibrium model of on-the-job search with ex-ante heterogeneous workers and firms, aggregate uncertainty and vacancy creation. The model produces rich dynamics in which the distributions of unemployed workers, vacancies and worker-firm matches evolve stochastically over time. We...

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Fiscal and monetary policy in Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, and The Netherlands

Fahrholz, Christian; Mohl, Philipp - 2003

monetary policy affairs, the heterogeneity of EMU-5 members is surveyed. The brief analysis of two main aspects of the monetary …

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Should firms employ personalized pricing?

Matsumura, Toshihiro; Matsushima, Noriaki - 2013

The recent developments in information technology (IT) have enabled firms to employ personalized pricing. Should all firms employ personalized pricing even though the adaptation costs of such pricing strategies are not high? This paper theoretically demonstrates a situation in which all firms do...

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