This paper uses data from Statistics New Zealand's Linked Employer-Employee Database (LEED) to document the pattern of firm-level teenage employment over the period 2000–2007, and analyse the responses of firms to the increasing relative wages of teenage workers, against a backdrop of...

This paper uses Statistics New Zealand’s Linked Employer-Employee Data (LEED) over the six year period April 1999-March 2005 to derive and analyse estimates of two-way worker and firm fixed effects components of job earnings rates. The fixed effects estimates reflect the portable earnings...

This paper uses Statistics New Zealand’s Linked Employer-Employee Database (LEED) to assess the extent and impact of such changes in the employment composition of workers and firms over this period. LEED provides comprehensive coverage of all wage and salary employment since 1999. It enables...

This paper provides an empirical evaluation of true state dependence in welfare participation using unique administrative data from California that is measured at the monthly frequency, which coincides with the welfare eligibility period and so is free of time aggregation bias. The analysis uses...

We consider the implications of a specific alternative to the classical measurement error model, in which the data are optimal predictions based on some information set. One motivation for this model is that if respondents are aware of their ignorance they may interpret the question what is the...