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Competitiveness at the Country-Sector Level : New Measures Based on Global Value Chains

Marczak, Martyna - 2018

We propose the so-called domestic "embodied unit labor costs" (EULC) at the country-sector level as a new cost-related basis for measures of international competitiveness. EULC take into account that a sector's labor costs constitute only a small share of its total cost which to a large extent...

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Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange

Falck, Oliver - 2010

We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...

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Women, Medieval Commerce, and the Education Gender Gap

Bertocchi, Graziella - 2013

We investigate the historical determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in the late nineteenth century, immediately following the country's Unification. We use a comprehensive newly-assembled database including 69 provinces over twenty-year sub-samples covering the 1861-1901 period. We...

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Employer-to-Employer Transitions and Time Aggregation Bias

Bertheau, Antoine; Vejlin, Rune Majlund - 2022

The rate at which workers switch employers without experiencing a spell of unemployment is one of the most important labor market indicators. However, Employer-to-Employer (EE) transitions are hard to measure in widely used matched employer-employee datasets such as those available in the US. We...

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Aggregation and Labor Supply Elasticities

Kneip, Alois - 2013

statistical aggregation procedure which allows for worker heterogeneity in observables and unobservables and is applicable to an …

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Aggregation in Large Dynamic Panels

Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2011

This paper considers the problem of aggregation in the case of large linear dynamic panels, where each micro unit is … Pesaran (2003), an optimal aggregate function is derived, and the limiting behavior of the aggregation error is investigated … which ﾑobservedﾒ inflation persistence at the aggregate level is due to aggregation and/or common unobserved factors. Our …

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Endogenous Local Labour Markets, Regional Aggregation and Agglomeration Economies

Meekes, Jordy - 2019

This paper examines the role of regional aggregation in measuring agglomeration externalities. Using Dutch … effect of employment density on workers' wages increases in the level of regional aggregation, explained by larger … higher levels of regional aggregation …

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Effect or Treatment Heterogeneity? Policy Evaluation with Aggregated and Disaggregated Treatments

Heiler, Phillip; Knaus, Michael C. - 2022

Binary treatments are often ex-post aggregates of multiple treatments or can be disaggregated into multiple treatment versions. Thus, effects can be heterogeneous due to either effect or treatment heterogeneity. We propose a decomposition method that uncovers masked heterogeneity, avoids...

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Zooming the Ins and Outs of the U.S. Unemployment with a Wavelet Lens

Portugal, Pedro - 2018

To better understand unemployment dynamics it is key to assess the role played by job creation and job destruction. Although the U.S. case has been studied extensively, the importance of job finding and employment exit rates to unemployment variability remains unsettled. The aim of this paper is...

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Birthplace Diversity and Economic Growth : Evidence from the US States in the Post-World War II Period

Docquier, Frédéric - 2018

This paper empirically revisits the impact of birthplace diversity on economic growth. We use panel data on US states over the 1960-2010 period. This rich data set allows us to better deal with endogeneity issues and to conduct a large set of robustness checks. Our results suggest that diversity...

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