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Unit roots and cointegration in panels
Breitung, Jörg; Pesaran, Mohammad Hashem - 2005
This paper provides a review of the literature on unit roots and cointegration in panels where the time dimension (T … degrees, the dependence that might prevail across the different units in the panel. In the analysis of cointegration the … hypothesis testing and estimation problems are further complicated by the possibility of cross section cointegration which could …
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Panel unit root tests in the presence of a multifactor error structure
Pesaran, Mohammad Hashem; Smith, L. Vanessa; Yamagata, … - 2008
This paper extends the cross sectionally augmented panel unit root test proposed by Pesaran (2007) to the case of a multifactor error structure. The basic idea is to exploit information regarding the unobserved factors that are shared by other time series in addition to the variable under...
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What do we really know about fiscal sustainability in the EU?: a panel data diagnostic
Afonso, António; Rault, Christophe - 2008
We assess the sustainability of public finances in the EU15 using stationarity and cointegration analysis. Specifically … apply modern panel cointegration techniques developed by Pedroni (1999, 2004), generalized by Banerjee and Carrion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264310
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Why Are Average Hours Worked Lower in Richer Countries?
Bick, Alexander; Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; Lagakos, David; … - 2020
Why are average hours worked per adult lower in rich countries than in poor countries? We consider two natural explanations: income effects in preferences, in which leisure becomes more valuable when income rises, and distortionary tax systems, which are more prevalent in richer countries. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012214162
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Hours Worked in Europe and the US: New Data, New Answers
Bick, Alexander; Brüggemann, Bettina; … - 2016
We use national labor force surveys from 1983 through 2011 to construct hours worked per person on the aggregate level and for different demographic groups for 18 European countries and the US. We find that Europeans work 19% fewer hours than US citizens. Differences in weeks worked and in the...
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Long-Term Changes in Married Couples' Labor Supply and Taxes: Evidence from the US and Europe Since the 1980s
Bick, Alexander; Brüggemann, Bettina; … - 2018
We document the time-series of employment rates and hours worked per employed by married couples in the US and seven European countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the UK) from the early 1980s through 2016. Relying on a model of joint household labor supply...
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Taxation and Labor Supply of Married Couples across Countries: A Macroeconomic Analysis
Bick, Alexander; Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - 2017
We document contemporaneous differences in the aggregate labor supply of married couples across 17 European countries and the US. Based on a model of joint household decision making, we quantify the contribution of international differences in non-linear labor income taxes and consumption taxes...
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Job Location Decisions and the Effect of Children on the Employment Gender Gap
Albanese, Andrea; Nieto, Adrián; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2022
We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian social security and geo-location data. Applying an event-study design that accounts for treatment effect heterogeneity, we show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first...
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Work and wage dynamics around childbirth
Ejrnæs, Mette; Kunze, Astrid - 2012
This study investigates how the first childbirth affects the wage processes of highly attached women. We estimate a flexible fixed effects wage regression model extended with post-birth fixed effects by the control function approach. Register data on West Germany are used and we exploit the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280803
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Job Location Decisions and the Effect of Children on the Employment Gender Gap
Albanese, Andrea; Nieto Castro, Adrian; Tatsiramos, … - 2022
We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian social security and geo-location data. Applying an event-study design that accounts for treatment effect heterogeneity, we show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082168