We investigate whether job loss as the result of displacement causes ill health. In doing this we use much better data than any previous investigators. Our data are a random 10% sample of the adult population of Denmark for the years 1981-1999. For this large representative panel we have very...

The New Zealand Superannuation Fund is being established as a means of smoothing out the impact on the rest of the Crown’s finances of the transition that will take place over the next fifty years to a permanently higher proportion of the population being eligible for New Zealand...

De acuerdo con la hipótesis básica de una nueva corriente de análisis del desarrollo económico, el principal determinante de la brecha actual entre el ingreso per cápita de los países desarrollados y el de los países en desarrollo que fueron colonias europeas es la concentración original...

Con el objetivo de incorporar las diferencias regio-nales en el análisis de la productividad, en este artículo se estima la productividad total de los factores (PTF) y las elasticidades de los factores para la industria manufacturera colombiana, por área metropolitana y sector industrial,...

The purpose of this paper is to use Dynamic Panel Data (DPD) models with serial correlation in the error term to see if Gibrat's law holds and to analyse the empirical determinants of firm growth. This paper makes significant contributions to the empirical literature on the dynamics of firm...

This paper proposes bonus-malus systems for fleets of vehicules, by using the individual characteristics of both the vehicules and the carriers.

The aim of this paper is to study the relationship between advertising and sales of French manufacturing firms. First, we use a simple theoretical model compatible with past econometric studies of sales and advertising, and extend it to dynamics. We show that the models that do not account for...

In this paper, we study maximum likelihood estimation and Lagrange multiplier testing of a one-way error components regression model suitable for incomplete panel and including parametrically specified variance functions for both individual-specific and general error disturbances.

In this paper we investigate the determinants of municipal labour demand in Sweden 1988-1995. Utilising a major grant reform in 1993, through which a switch from mainly targeted to mainly general central government grants occurred, we are able to identify which type of grants that have the...

It is a well-known property that standard GMM estimators for dynamic panel data might perform poorly in small samples. Several papers have noted this to be especially true for the estimated standard errors, which are normally biased downwards. The aim of the present paper is to compare how two...