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Estimating Trends in US Income Inequality Using the Current Population Survey : The Importance of Controlling for Censoring

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, Shuaizhang; Jenkins, Stephen - 2021

Using internal and public use March Current Population Survey data, we analyze trends in US income inequality (1975-2004). Using a multiple imputation approach where values for censored observations are imputed using draws from a Generalized Beta distribution of the Second Kind, we find that the...

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Estimating Poverty for Refugee Populations : Can Cross-Survey Imputation Methods Substitute for Data Scarcity?

Dang, Hai-Anh - 2019

measuring poverty among refugee populations. However, refugee data remain scarce, particularly in relation to the measurement of …

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Negotiating Cooperation Under Uncertainty : Communication in Noisy, Indefinitely Repeated Interactions

Dvorak, Fabian - 2018

Case studies of cartels and recent theory suggest that repeated communication is key for stable cooperation in … environments where signals about others' actions are noisy. However, empirically the exact role of communication is not well … understood. We study cooperation under different monitoring and communication structures in the laboratory. Under all monitoring …

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Creative Differences? Measuring Creative Economy Employment in the Us and UK Using Microdata

Kemeny, Tom - 2018

Using high-quality administrative microdata spanning 2011-2013, this paper develops new routines to compare creative economies using the creative trident framework, and applies them to the UK and US national and regional contexts. We find the UK creative economy is larger in workforce shares,...

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Intangible Capital and Growth in Advanced Economies : Measurement Methods and Comparative Results

Corrado, Carol - 2012

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Regional Measures of Human Capital in the European Union

Dreger, Christian - 2009

The accumulation of the human capital stock plays a key role to explain the macroeconomic performance across regions. However, despite the strong theoretical support for this claim, empirical evidence has been not very convincing, probably because of the low quality of the data. This paper...

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Chronic Material Deprivation and Long‐Term Poverty in Europe in the Pre‐Crisis Period

Papadopoulos, Fotis - 2016

the population at high risk of chronic material deprivation and longitudinal poverty. Finally, each country's population …

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Employment Protection, Technology Choice, and Worker Allocation

Bartelsman, Eric J. - 2011

Using a country-industry panel dataset (EUKLEMS) we uncover a robust empirical regularity, namely that high-risk … with the adoption of information and communication technology. The simulations produce a differential response to the …

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Uncertainty and Firms' Labour Decisions. Evidence from European Countries

Martínez-Matute, Marta - 2020

Uncertainty affects employers' decisions on labour workforce, as it does on capital. We exploit differences on how firms adjust their labour work-force when uncertainty increases. Using data from the Wage Dynamic Network Survey for 25 European countries, we first construct, opposite to usual...

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Does the Choice of Well-Being Measure Matter Empirically? An Illustration with German Data

Decancq, Koen - 2014

We discuss and compare five measures of individual well-being, namely income, an objective composite well-being index, a measure of subjective well-being, equivalent income, and a well-being measure based on the von Neumann-Morgenstern utilities of the individuals. After examining the...

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