Search Results - subject:"measurement errors"

Inconsistencies in reported employment characteristics among employed stayers

Bassi, Francesca; Padoan, Alessandra; Trivellato, Ugo - 2008

The paper deals with measurement error, and its potentially distorting role, in information on industry and professional status collected by labour force surveys. The focus of our analyses is on inconsistent information on these employment characteristics resulting from yearly transition...

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The “Psycho-analysis” of Common People’s Forecast Errors. Evidence from European Consumer Surveys

Bovi, Maurizio - Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT) - 2008

Persistent and widespread psychological attitudes distort both the subjective probability of future economic events and their retrospective interpretation. It could lead to a systematic gap between (over critic) judgments and (over confident) expectations - the “survey forecast error”. When...

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A Spatial-Dependence Continuous-Time Model for Regional Unemployment in Germany

Oud, Johan H. L.; Folmer, Henk; Patuelli, Roberto; … - USI Università della Svizzera italiana - 2008

This paper analyzes patterns of regional labour market development in Germany over the period 2000-2003 by means of a spatial-dependence continuous-time model. (Spatial) panel data are routinely modelled in discrete time. However, there are compelling arguments for continuous time modelling of...

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Continuous-Time Modelling with Spatial Dependence

Oud, Johan H.L.; Folmer, Henk; Patuelli, Roberto; … - Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA) - 2008

measurement errors in the variables into account, leading to a reduction of attenuation bias (i.e., disattenuation). The SEM …

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Are Weak Banks Leading Credit Booms? Evidence From Emerging Europe

Igan, Deniz; Tamirisa, Natalia T. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

This paper examines the behavior of bank soundness indicators during episodes of brisk loan growth, using bank-level data for central and eastern Europe and controlling for the feedback effect of credit growth on bank soundness. No evidence is found that rapid loan expansion has weakened banks...

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Interest Rate Elasticity of Residential Housing Prices

Iossifov, Plamen; Cihák, Martin; Shanghavi, Amar - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

We examine the interest rate elasticity of housing prices, advancingthe empirical literature in two directions. First, we take a commonly used cross-country panel dataset and evaluate the housing price equation using a consistent estimator in the presence of endogenous explanatory variables and...

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Sobre-educación en el mercado laboral colombiano

Mora, Jhon James - In: Revista de Economía Institucional 10 (2008) July-December, pp. 293-309

This paper analyzes over-education in Colombia, using the data of individuals and companies, compiled by the National Apprenticeship Service (SENA) in 2006. It finds that there is a 14% likelihood of being over-educated and that this depends on the mobility between different areas of...

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Inconsistencies in Reported Employment Characteristics among Employed Stayers

Bassi, Francesca; Padoan, Alessandra; Trivellato, Ugo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

13, C83, J21 Keywords: industry, professional status, measurement errors, survey data Corresponding author … in job characteristics reported one year apart as due to measurement errors affecting these variables, and assume that … an open-ended question and answers were afterwards coded by the interviewer. Literature on measurement errors in surveys …

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The Impact of Decentralized Data Entry on the Quality of Household Survey Data in Developing Countries : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Vietnam

Glewwe, Paul; Dang, Hai-Anh Hoang - In: The World Bank Economic Review 22 (2008) 1, pp. 165-185

Computers were provided to randomly selected districts participating in a household survey in Vietnam to assess the impact on data quality of entering data within a day or two of completing the interview rather than several weeks later in the provincial capital. Provision of computers had no...

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Two Comments on "Governance Indicators : Where Are We, Where Should We Be Going?" by Daniel Kaufmann and Aart Kraay

Devarajan, Shantayanan; Johnson, Simon - In: World Bank Research Observer 23 (2008) 1, pp. 31-36

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