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Testing for unit roots in panel data: are wages on different bargaining levels cointegrated?

Jörg Breitung, +1 more
- 01 Apr 1994 - 
- Vol. 26, Iss: 4, pp 353-361
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This paper applied various unit root tests to a panel of wage data and found that firm and industry wages both possess a unit root in the autoregressive representation of the distribution of hourly wages.
Abstract
Theoritical considerations suggest that spillover forces equalize wages for similar jobs Thus, it is expected that firm wages are cointegrated with the corresponding wage rates on an industrial level In this paper we apply various unit root tests to a panel of wage data We show that the familiar techniques can be adopted to this type of data allowing for unobserved heterogeneity and common time effects Our results suggest that firm and industry wages both possess a unit root in the autoregressive representation However, ther is only weak evidence for a cointegration realtionship

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Unit root tests in panel data: asymptotic and finite-sample properties

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A Comparative Study of Unit Root Tests with Panel Data and a New Simple Test

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Spurious regression and residual-based tests for cointegration in panel data

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Testing for Stationarity in Heterogeneous Panel Data

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TL;DR: The relationship between co-integration and error correction models, first suggested in Granger (1981), is here extended and used to develop estimation procedures, tests, and empirical examples.
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Some Tests of Specification for Panel Data: Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application to Employment Equations.

TL;DR: In this article, the generalized method of moments (GMM) estimator optimally exploits all the linear moment restrictions that follow from the assumption of no serial correlation in the errors, in an equation which contains individual effects, lagged dependent variables and no strictly exogenous variables.
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Biases in Dynamic Models with Fixed Effects

Stephen Nickell
- 01 Nov 1981 - 
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The Lagrange Multiplier Test and its Applications to Model Specification in Econometrics

TL;DR: The Lagrange multiplier (LM) statistic as mentioned in this paper is based on the maximum likelihood ratio (LR) procedure and is used to test the effect on the first order conditions for a maximum of the likelihood of imposing the hypothesis.
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Trends and random walks in macroeconmic time series: Some evidence and implications

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate whether macroeconomic time series are better characterized as stationary fluctuations around a deterministic trend or as non-stationary processes that have no tendency to return to the deterministic path, and conclude that macroeconomic models that focus on monetary disturbances as a source of purely transitory fluctuations may not be successful in explaining a large fraction of output variation.
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