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The feasibility and importance of adding measures of actual experience to cross-sectional data collection
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2011
We use Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics data and data from a 2008 telephone survey of adults conducted by Westat …. Further, our PDII survey results show that it is feasible to collect actual experience data in cross-sectional telephone …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310711
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Telecommunications dynamics, output and employment
Jungmittag, Andre (contributor);  … - 2006
In EU countries, opening up of telecommunications markets and regulations have helped to reduce the price of digital … services which is an important quasi-input factor in all firms. Integrating the use of telecommunications in a macroeconomic … production function is the analytical starting point for our interdependent analysis of output, use of telecommunications and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003384907
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Political institutions and the development of telecommunications
Andonova, Veneta (contributor);  … - 2007
It has traditionally been argued that the development of telecommunications infrastructure is dependent on the quality … telecommunications services and find it to be much smaller in cellular telephony than in the others. By evaluating the importance of … offer policy implications for alleviating differences between countries in international telecommunications development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003529158
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Competition reform and household welfare: a microsimulation analysis of the telecommunication sector in Ethiopia
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Araar, Abdelkrim; … - 2021
This paper presents a novel method for estimating the likely welfare effects of competition reforms for both current and new consumers. Using household budget survey data for 2015/16 for Ethiopia and assuming a reform scenario that dilutes the market share of the state-owned monopoly to 45...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012418650
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Mexican immigrants, the labor market and the current population survey : seasonality effects, framing effects, and sensitivity of results
Lozano, Fernando (contributor); Sorensen, Todd (contributor) - 2008
In this paper we compare estimates of immigrants' labor supply assimilation profiles using the Current Population Survey Annual Demographic Files (March ADS) and the Current Population Survey Outgoing Rotation Groups (ORGs). We use a measure that is seemingly consistent across both surveys:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652678
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The reliability of subjective well-being measures
Krueger, Alan B. (contributor); Schkade, David (contributor) - 2007
This paper studies the test-retest reliability of a standard self-reported life satisfaction measure and of affect measures collected from a diary method. The sample consists of 229 women who were interviewed on Thursdays, two weeks apart, in Spring 2005. The correlation of net affect (i.e.,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003578860
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Some evidence on the importance of sticky wages
Barattieri, Alessandro; Basu, Susanto; Gottschalk, Peter - 2010
Nominal wage stickiness is an important component of recent medium-scale structural macroeconomic models, but to date there has been little microeconomic evidence supporting the assumption of sluggish nominal wage adjustment. We present evidence on the frequency of nominal wage adjustment using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003985883
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Attrition and health in ageing studies : evidence from ELSA and HRS
Banks, James; Muriel, Alastair; Smith, James P. - 2010
In this paper we present results of an investigation into observable characteristics associated with attrition in ELSA and the HRS, with a particular focus on whether attrition is systematically related to health outcomes and socioeconomic status (SES). Investigating the links between health and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009007015
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Is earnings nonresponse ignorable?
Bollinger, Christopher R.; Hirsch, Barry T. - 2010
Earnings nonresponse in the Current Population Survey is roughly 30% in the monthly surveys and 20% in the annual March survey. Even if nonresponse is random, severe bias attaches to wage equation coefficient estimates on attributes not matched in the earnings imputation hot deck. If nonresponse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009377090
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Nonresponse and focal point answers to subjective probability questions
Kleinjans, Kristin J.; Soest, Arthur van - 2010
We develop and estimate a panel data model explaining the answers to questions about subjective probabilities, using data from the US Health and Retirement Study. We explicitly account for nonresponse, rounding, and focal point "50 percent" answers. Our results indicate that for three of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009154555