Search Results - subject:"Difference in differences"

Immigration Policy and Remittance Behaviour

Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Tchuente, Guy - 2017

the policy change, which consists of stricter entry requirements. Our empirical strategy uses conditional difference-in-differences … difference-in-differences are biased if used on their own. We then derive conditions that are required to obtain a consistent … estimator using a combination of conditional difference-in-differences and Bai's (2009) least squares estimator. The results …

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Labour Supply and Informal Care Supply: The Impacts of Financial Support for Long-Term Elderly Care

Hollingsworth, Bruce; Ohinata, Asako; Picchio, Matteo; … - 2017

above, on caregiving behaviour. Using a difference-in-differences estimator, we estimate that the free formal care reduced …

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Employment protection legislation and mismatch: Evidence from a reform

Berton, Fabio; Devicienti, Francesco; … - 2017

Liberalization of temporary contracts has been a hallmark of labor market reforms during the last decades. More recently, factors like the sovereign debt crisis pushed the most indebted countries to unprecedented reductions of employment protection legislation (EPL) also on open-ended contracts....

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The minimum wage effects on skilled crafts sector in Saxony-Anhalt

Brautzsch, Hans-Ulrich; Schultz, Birgit - 2017

This paper examines the effects of the minimum wage introduction in Germany in 2015 on the skilled crafts sector in Saxony-Anhalt. Using novel survey data on the skilled crafts sector in Saxony-Anhalt, we examine three questions: (1) How many employees are affected by the minimum wage...

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The effect of public pension wealth on saving and expenditure

Lachowska, Marta; Myck, Micha± - 2017

This paper examines the degree of substitution between public pension wealth and private saving by studying Poland's 1999 pension reform. The analysis identifies the effect of pension wealth on private saving using cohort-by-time variation in pension wealth induced by the reform. The estimates,...

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Impact of Latin-American and Caribbean antidumping measures on Chinese exports

Zhang, Yan - 2017

the difference-in-differences identification strategy, and finds a substantial trade-dampening effect of these measures at …

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Firms and Collective Reputation: The Volkswagen Emission Scandal as a Case Study

Bachmann, Ruediger; Ehrlich, Gabriel; Ruzic, Dimitrije - 2017

This paper uses the 2015 Volkswagen emissions scandal as a natural experiment to provide causal evidence that group reputation externalities matter for firms. Our estimates show statistically and economically significant declines in the U.S. sales and stock returns of, as well as public...

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Shortening the potential duration of unemployment benefits and labor market outcomes: Evidence from a natural experiment in Germany

Petrunyk, Inna; Pfeifer, Christian - 2017

This paper explores the effects of a major reform of unemployment benefits in Germany on the labor market outcomes of individuals with some health impairment. The reform induced a substantial reduction in the potential duration of regular unemployment benefits for older workers. This work...

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Sources of displaced workers' long-term earnings losses

Lachowska, Marta; Mas, Alexandre; Woodbury, Stephen A. - 2017

We estimate the earnings losses of a cohort of workers displaced during the Great Recession and decompose those long-term losses into components attributable to fewer work hours and to reduced hourly wage rates. We also examine the extent to which the reduced earnings, work hours, and wages of...

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Increased instruction hours and the widening gap in student performance

Huebener, Mathias; Kuger, Susanne; Marcus, Jan - In: Labour Economics 47 (2017), pp. 15-34

Do increased instruction hours improve the performance of all students? Using PISA scores of students in ninth grade, we analyse the effect of a German education reform that increased weekly instruction hours by two hours (6.5 percent) over almost five years. In the additional time, students are...

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