Propensity score matching is used to estimate the size of the public sector pay premium in four countries. Three sets of matching covariates are used; worker characteristics only, then including job attributes and finally adding union membership. When worker characteristics and job attributes are...

This paper argues that satisfaction data from surveys are biased by varying participant attitudes toward the interview itself. In this manner, interviewees in a German panel study report lower life satisfaction when there is evidence of transient influences like aversion. The empirical findings...

This paper investigates the effect of individual unemployment experiences on re-employment wages. The empirical analysis is carried out on a panel of Italian individuals. The main result is that while in the northern regions the effect is similar to the one estimated for the UK, in the southern...

This paper investigates the effect of individual unemployment experiences on re-employment wages. The empirical analysis is carried out on a panel of Italian individuals. The main result is that while in the northern regions the effect is similar to the one estimated for the UK, in the southern...

This paper examines the efficient provision of local public goods when jurisdictions compete for both domestic and foreign capital. Capital is freely mobile between jurisdictions in the home country, but capital owners will incur migration costs if investing abroad. Since the supply of foreign...

This paper investigates the causal relationship between innovation and labour force reallocation within the firm, measured as the share of white collar workers. To the extent that intra-firm reallocation can be considered as a substitute for inter-firms and sectors reallocations, innovation...

We take advantage of Taiwan Education Panel Survey data to evaluate the timing of the coaching effect on mathematics learning for junior high-school students. Our main finding suggests that the best strategy for the budget-limited parents is to send their children to cram schools for intensive...

Cluster-corrected standard errors are widely used but may sometimes be inappropriate since household surveys are increasingly geo-referenced. Compared with the appropriate spatial error models that use details on exact locations, cluster corrections impose untested restrictions on spatial...

While there has been much discussion of the role of liquidity in the recent financial crises, there has been little discussion of the use of macroeconomic aggregation techniques to measure total liquidity available to the market. In this paper, we provide an approximation of the liquidity...

Method of survey data collection, especially at household or personal interview, responders frequently answers extreme, because of their pre-assumption on questionnaire to get financial or food aid. This reduces data consistency and advances leverage that affects estimation procedure and...