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20172025
most citedHeterogeneous Employment Effects of Job Search Programmes: A Machine Learning Approach

66 citations

10 papers

cs.CR2025★ 23 cited

A Consensus Privacy Metrics Framework for Synthetic Data

Lisa Pilgram, Fida K. Dankar, Jorg Drechsler +12

Synthetic data generation is one approach for sharing individual-level data. However, to meet legislative requirements, it is necessary to demonstrate that the individuals' privacy…

cs.DS2023★ 4 cited

Continual Release of Differentially Private Synthetic Data from Longitudinal Data Collections

Mark Bun, Marco Gaboardi, Marcel Neunhoeffer +1

Motivated by privacy concerns in long-term longitudinal studies in medical and social science research, we study the problem of continually releasing differentially private synthet…

econ.GN2022★ 3 cited

Labor Demand on a Tight Leash

Mario Bossler, Martin Popp

We develop a labor demand model that encompasses pre-match hiring cost arising from tight labor markets. Through the lens of the model, we study the effect of labor market tightnes…

cs.CR2021★ 17 cited

Differential Privacy for Government Agencies -- Are We There Yet?

Joerg Drechsler

Government agencies typically need to take potential risks of disclosure into account whenever they publish statistics based on their data or give external researchers access to co…

q-bio.PE2020★ 5 cited

Sustainable Border Control Policy in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Math Modeling Study

Zhen Zhu, Enzo Weber, Till Strohsal +1

Imported COVID-19 cases, if unchecked, can jeopardize the effort of domestic containment. We aim to find out what sustainable border control options for different entities (e.g., c…

econ.EM2020★ 4 cited

Applying Data Synthesis for Longitudinal Business Data across Three Countries

M. Jahangir Alam, Benoit Dostie, Jörg Drechsler +1

Data on businesses collected by statistical agencies are challenging to protect. Many businesses have unique characteristics, and distributions of employment, sales, and profits ar…

econ.GN2019★ 19 cited

Sorting on the Used-Car Market After the Volkswagen Emission Scandal

Anthony Strittmatter, Michael Lechner

The disclosure of the VW emission manipulation scandal caused a quasi-experimental market shock to the observable environmental quality of VW diesel vehicles. To investigate the ma…

econ.EM2018★ 9 cited

Approximate State Space Modelling of Unobserved Fractional Components

Tobias Hartl, Roland Weigand

We propose convenient inferential methods for potentially nonstationary multivariate unobserved components models with fractional integration and cointegration. Based on finite-ord…

stat.AP2018★ 1 cited

Synthesizing geocodes to facilitate access to detailed geographical information in large scale administrative data

Joerg Drechsler, Jingchen Hu

We investigate whether generating synthetic data can be a viable strategy for providing access to detailed geocoding information for external researchers, without compromising the…

econ.EM2017★ 66 cited

Heterogeneous Employment Effects of Job Search Programmes: A Machine Learning Approach

Michael Knaus, Michael Lechner, Anthony Strittmatter

We systematically investigate the effect heterogeneity of job search programmes for unemployed workers. To investigate possibly heterogeneous employment effects, we combine non-exp…