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's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm …
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We construct a model of offshoring with externalities and firm heterogeneity. Due to the presence of externalities, temporary shocks like the Y2K problem can have permanent effects, i.e., they can permanently raise the extent of offshoring in an industry. Also, the initial advantage of a country...
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In this paper, we investigate how changes in the skill mix of local labor supply are absorbed by the economy. We distinguish between three adjustment mechanisms: through factor prices, through an expansion in the size of those production units that use the more abundant skill group more...
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' subjective uncertainty. We address this challenge by using a detailed new survey measure of subjective uncertainty collected by …
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two independent surveys on the same initial sample of 8, 000 persons. The first one is a long telephone survey that had a … telephone survey targeted at those leaving the unemployment registers; this enriched data source has a balanced and much higher … results. Using the enriched administrative data as benchmark, we find evidence that estimates from the long telephone survey …
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We combine a survey and an experiment with real pay-out among Peking University students to measure and validate … individual risk attitudes. The experiment involves choosing between a cash payment and playing a lottery. The survey questions … parental income, risk attitudes are domain-specific. Correlations between survey measures and experimental measures, are in the …
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We propose a novel selectivity correction procedure to deal with survey attrition, at the crossroads of the "Heckit … models, we use information on the number of attempts that were made to obtain response to the survey from each individual who …
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Earnings nonresponse in the Current Population Survey is roughly 30% in the monthly surveys and 20% in the annual March … survey. Even if nonresponse is random, severe bias attaches to wage equation coefficient estimates on attributes not matched …
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We develop and estimate a panel data model explaining the answers to questions about subjective probabilities, using data from the US Health and Retirement Study. We explicitly account for nonresponse, rounding, and focal point 50 percent answers. Our results indicate that for three of the four...
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The vast majority of firms in developing economies are micro and small enterprises owned by families whose members also provide the labour to the units. Often, they fail to grow in size even with the relaxation of credit constraints. In this paper, we show that frictions in the labour market...
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