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Replication files for On the Measurement of the Elasticity of Labour

This repository contains all files necessary to replicate the results in On the Measurement of the Elasticity of Labour by Charles Gottlieb, Joern Onken, and Arnau Valladares-Esteban.

Proceed as follows to replicate all the tables and figures in the paper.

1. Execute the STATA do-file s01_ComputeDataInputs.do. The do-file: - Reads all the necessary raw data from the CSV files in /RawData/. - Creates Tables 1 and 4 of the paper in latex format. - Create a CSV file named DataInputs.csv with all the parametrisation inputs.
2. Execute the Matlab file s02_GenerateOutputs.m. The m-file: - Reads the data in DataInputs.csv. - Produces all plots in Figures 1 and 2 in .eps format. - Produces Tables 2 and 3 of the paper in latex format.

Both codes store all tables in folder Tables/ and all plots in folder Figures/.
Below we detail all the files in RawData/. We provide the URLs from which we have downloaded the files.

Files in /RawData/

• OECD Employment by activities and status (ALFS), OECD_ALFS_EMP.csv.
• OECD Population and Labour Force, OECD_ALFS_POP_LABOUR.csv.
• OECD National Accounts at a Glance, OECD_TABLE2.csv.
• UNdata Table 1.1 Gross domestic product by expenditures at current prices, UN_TABLE1.1.csv.
• UNdata Table 1.3 Relations among product, income, savings, and net lending aggregates, UN_TABLE1.3.csv.
• UNdata Table 4.5 General Government (S.13), UN_TABLE4.5.csv.
• UNdata Table 4.9 Combined Sectors: Households and NPISH (S.14 + S.15), UN_TABLE4.9.csv.
• The World Bank DataBank - Armed forces personnel, total, World_Bank_Armed_Forces_Personnel.csv.

Last check on all URLs was on 22nd August 2021.