Author: Razvan Constantin PascalauPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Three Essays in Time Series and Personnel Economics
Author: Razvan Constantin PascalauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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Three Essays in Personnel Economics
Author: David Jonathan BrlanPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Three Essays in the Econometrics of Time Series
Author: Chung-Hua ShenPublisher:
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Category : Demand for money
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Three Essays on the Analysis of Economic Time Series
Author: Christopher Everett FieldPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Three Essays in Applied Time Series Econometrics
Author: Taylor CollinsPublisher:
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Category : Econometrics
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This dissertation is composed of four chapters. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the paper by highlighting some of the key economic questions, econometric methods, and conclusions that this paper chronicles. In Chapter 2, I conduct a range of unit root tests on the unemployment rates of 30 OECD countries. The objective of these tests are to use modern data and methods to update an old line of research that endeavors to uncover the most appropriate way to model unemployment. I find less evidence supporting Structural theories of unemployment than have prior studies in this field. In Chapter 3, I turn my attention to US monetary policy. Specifically, I utilize a new estimation technique called the Beverage-Nelson Filter to construct output gaps for use in an introductory Taylor Rule study. I revisit a marquee paper from John Taylor, conduct a structural change test of Bai and Perron, and utilize a wide modeling of monetary policy rules. I find that the Federal Funds Rate displayed as strong an adherence to baseline Taylor Rules through the 1960s as in any other era. Chapter 4 then turns the focus to New Zealand monetary policy and their role as the world's first inflation targeting country. In this chapter, I study the effects of the inflation rate and it's forecasted value for the following two years on New Zealand's Official Cash Rate and the country's Industrial Production Index. Using a set of Threshold Regressions and VAR Regressions, I find that New Zealand's interest rate responds much more strongly to the medium-run projected inflation than it does to inflation that is realized or projected to occur in the short run. I also find evidence that production in New Zealand is more responsive to changes in projected inflation than to changers in the interest rate.
Three Essays in Labor Economics and Public Finance
Author: Carolina Rodríguez-ZamoraPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
This dissertation consists of three essays. The first one brings together the areas of public and labor economics by developing a hypothesis that relates optimal taxation and time use. Using Mexican data on household time use and consumption, we find significant substitution between goods and time in home production and different elasticities of substitution for different house-hold commodities. Adding these findings to the optimal tax problem, we show it is optimal to impose higher taxes on market goods used in the production of commodities with a lower elasticity of substitution between goods and time. This is an analog of the classical Corlett and Hague (1953) result, differing in that we allow for the possibility of substitution between goods and time in the production of commodities. The second chapter is about international migration, in the area of labor economics. On one hand, surveillance of the border between Mexico and the United States by the U.S. government has increased dramatically over the last two decades. On the other hand, undocumented Mexican migrants often make multiple trips between the two countries. Thus, my hypothesis is that these migrants respond to heightened surveillance by increasing the length of stay of the current trip. I estimate a semi-parametric hazard model following Meyer (1990). Using data from the Mexican Migration Project I find no evidence that border enforcement affects the hazard of leaving the U.S. by undocumented Mexican Immigrants. The last essay is about mother's time and children related expenditures. Using data from the Mexican Time Use Survey and the National Household Survey of Income and Expenditure from 2002, I examine the time Mexican mothers dedicate to taking care of their children and the amount of money spent by the household in raising children. The main contribution of this paper is that it analyzes child care time use and child care expenditures simultaneously. The age of the youngest child is the most important determinant of both child care time and money expenditures. It is the case that more educated mothers spend more money on their children. With respect to child care time use, more educated mothers spend more or less time with their children depending on whether they are working or non-working mothers. At all levels of non-mother's income, working mothers spend significantly more money relative to time in child care than non-working mothers. For both groups the ratio of money over time increases at a decreasing rate; however, for non-working mothers the income expansion path is much flatter.
Three Essays in Labor Economics
Author: Gábor KézdiHiring, Recessions, and Careers
Author: Eliza Carla ForsythePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 103
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Workers find wage-growth and job-satisfaction by building careers. However a worker's ability to string together a sequence of jobs relies on the availability of appropriate opportunities either within their current firm or in other firms in the market. In this thesis, I investigate how variation in the labor market affects this career building process. In the first chapter, I find that career opportunities are scarce for young workers during recessions, and use theory and evidence to argue that this is due to firms choosing to hire more experienced workers instead. In the second chapter, I find that firms reallocate their employees between occupations during recessions, leading workers to receive lower wages and be employed in lower-quality occupations. In the third chapter, I develop a model to explain why workers change firms when opportunities exist within the firm. I show that heterogeneity in firms' production functions and human capital acquisition are sufficient to generate these movements. More specifically, in the first two chapters I use data from the CPS to study reallocations over the business cycle. In Chapter 1, I find that during recessions the probability of being hired falls for young workers, while for experienced workers it rises. I develop a model and show this fact can be explained by firms choosing to hire workers with greater work experience when labor markets are slack. My model provides the distinctive prediction that during recessions, young workers will match with lower-quality jobs and receive lower wages while experienced workers will exhibit no change in either dimension. I develop occupational quality indices using O*NET and OES data and find evidence consistent with both predictions, suggesting that firms' hiring behavior actively contributes to negative outcomes for young workers during recessions. In Chapter 2, I document that occupational mobility is counter-cyclical. I show this is driven by an increase in occupational mobility within firms. I show that these within-firm occupation changers lose ground during recessions, matching with lower-quality jobs and receiving lower wages. Combined with the recessionary increase in within-firm mobility, these results suggest a previously undiscovered cost of recessions borne by employed workers. Finally, in Chapter 3, I develop a model that demonstrates how career-advancing inter-firm mobility can persist despite the possibility of within-firm mobility. I argue that many of these movements are driven by firm heterogeneity and human capital acquisition and show such a model can capture three key empirical regularities: experienced workers are hired into advanced positions, wages rise more at movements between positions (within and between firms) than at stays in the current firm, and external hires tend to have different qualifications than internal promotees. JEL Classification: E24, J62, M51.
Time Series Techniques for Economists
Author: Terence C. MillsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521405744
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The application of time series techniques in economics has become increasingly important, both for forecasting purposes and in the empirical analysis of time series in general. In this book, Terence Mills not only brings together recent research at the frontiers of the subject, but also analyses the areas of most importance to applied economics. It is an up-to-date text which extends the basic techniques of analysis to cover the development of methods that can be used to analyse a wide range of economic problems. The book analyses three basic areas of time series analysis: univariate models, multivariate models, and non-linear models. In each case the basic theory is outlined and then extended to cover recent developments. Particular emphasis is placed on applications of the theory to important areas of applied economics and on the computer software and programs needed to implement the techniques. This book clearly distinguishes itself from its competitors by emphasising the techniques of time series modelling rather than technical aspects such as estimation, and by the breadth of the models considered. It features many detailed real-world examples using a wide range of actual time series. It will be useful to econometricians and specialists in forecasting and finance and accessible to most practitioners in economics and the allied professions.
Author: Cristóbal Huneeus