Synthetic controls with machine learning: application on the effect of labour deregulation on worker productivity in Brazil
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Keywords
causal inference; synthetic controls; machine learning; labour reforms; productivity;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- B41 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Economic Methodology - - - Economic Methodology
- C32 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes; State Space Models
- C54 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Quantitative Policy Modeling
- E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
- J50 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - General
- J83 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Standards - - - Workers' Rights
- O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BIG-2024-05-27 (Big Data)
- NEP-CMP-2024-05-27 (Computational Economics)
- NEP-ECM-2024-05-27 (Econometrics)
- NEP-EFF-2024-05-27 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-LAB-2024-05-27 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-MAC-2024-05-27 (Macroeconomics)
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