Practical estimation methods for linked employer-employee data

Martyn J. Andrews, Thorsten Schank and Richard Upward

No 29, Discussion Papers from Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Chair of Labour and Regional Economics

Abstract: Methods for the analysis of linked employer-employee data are not yet available in standard econometrics packages. In this paper, we make the fixed-effects methods developed orginally by Abowd, Kramarz, Margolis and others more accessible, where possible, and show how they can be implemented in Stata. To illustrate these techniques, we give an example using German linked data. There is a caveat: when the number of plants is prohibitively large and the investigator wants to estimate the correlation between the worker and firm unobserved heterogeneities, the regression-based techniques discussed are not feasible. We also report an estimate of the correlation of zero.

Keywords: linked employee-employer panel data; fixed effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 C87 J30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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