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Activity Number: 507 - Business, Time Series, and Spatial Analysis Methods
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Thursday, August 6, 2020 : 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Sponsor: Business and Economic Statistics Section
Abstract #313266
Title: Firm Effect or Peer Effect: Evidence from Denmark
Author(s): Jianhong Xin*
Companies: University of Pennsylvania
Keywords: labor economics; wage peer effect; recommender system; graph embedding; positive associative matching; fixed effect models
Abstract:

How important is the peer effect in the workplace? I develop a non-parametric estimate taking into account sorting to unobserved heterogeneities. Empirically we find sizable spillover using the administrative matched employer-employee dataset from Statistics Denmark.


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