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Estimating the technology of cognitive and noncognitive skill formation
Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James Joseph; Schennach, Susanne - 2010
This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills. Skills are determined by parental environments and investments at different stages of childhood. We estimate the elasticity of substitution between investments in one period and...
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Exchange Rate Volatility Effects on the German Labour Market: A Survey of Recent Results and Extensions
Buscher, Herbert S.; Mueller, Claudia - 1999
In this paper, a survey on theoretically expected and empirically proved impacts of exchange rate volatility is given …. With regard to the West German unemployment, the effects of volatility are empirically analysed using three different … volatility measures and four country groups. In autoregressive models, a significant disturbing impact of volatility can be found …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262270
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Real wages, working time, and the great depression: What does micro evidence tell us?
Hart, Robert A.; Roberts, J. Elizabeth - 2010
Based largely on industry-level aggregate statistics, the prevailing view, and one that has strongly influenced macroeconomic thought, is that real wages during the cycle containing the Great Depression are either acyclical or countercyclical. Does this finding hold-up when more micro data are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269762
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Constitutions and economic development: Evidence from the American Indian Nations
Akee, Randall K. Q.; Jorgensen, Miriam; Sunde, Uwe - 2012
This paper presents an empirical examination of economic and institutional development. Utilizing a novel data set on American Indian tribal nations, we investigate how constitutional design affects economic development, while holding the broader legal and political environment fixed....
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Aggregation in large dynamic panels
Pesaran, Mohammad Hashem; Chudik, Alexander - 2011
This paper considers the problem of aggregation in the case of large linear dynamic panels, where each micro unit is potentially related to all other micro units, and where micro innovations are allowed to be cross sectionally dependent. Following Pesaran (2003), an optimal aggregate function is...
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Real Wages and the Cycle: The View from the Frequency Domain
Hart, Robert A.; Malley, James R.; Woitek, Ulrich - 2001
In the time domain, the observed cyclical behavior of the real wage hides a range of economic influences that give rise to cycles of differing lengths and amplitudes. This may serve to produce a distorted picture of wage cyclicality. Here, we employ frequency domain methods that allow us...
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Testing for Asymmetry in British, German and US Unemployment Data
Kohns, Stephan - 2001
Not only the level of aggregate unemployment but also the properties of its dynamics are an important topic in macroeconomics and labor economics. Several models like e.g. matching models with endogenous job destruction explicitly predict an asymmetric pattern in the evolution of unemployment,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262548
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Re-employment probabilities over the business cycle
Imbens, Guido W.; Lynch, Lisa M. - 2006
Using a Cox proportional hazard model that allows for a flexible time dependence in order to incorporate business cycle effects, we analyze the determinants of reemployment probabilities of young workers in the U.S. from 1978-1989. We find considerable changes in the chances of young workers...
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Unemployment dynamics and the cost of business cycles
Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François; Osotimehin, … - 2008
reproduce the volatility of the job finding rate. Moreover, the matching model embeds other non-linearities which alter the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269007
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Amerisclerosis? The Puzzle of Rising U.S. Unemployment Persistence
Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Koustas, Dmitri - 2013
The persistence of U.S. unemployment has risen with each of the last three recessions, raising the specter that future U.S. recessions might look more like the Eurosclerosis experience of the 1980s than traditional V-shaped recoveries of the past. In this paper, we revisit possible explanations...
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