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From No Pay to Low Pay and Back Again?: A Multi-State Model of Low Pay Dynamics
Uhlendorff, Arne - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
This study analyzes the mobility between three labor market states: working in low paid jobs, working in higher paid jobs and not working. Using German panel data I estimate dynamic multinomial logit panel data models with random effects taking the initial conditions problem and potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069104
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The Distribution and Heterogeneity of Technical Efficiency within Industries: An Empirical Assessment
Fritsch, Michael; Stephan, Andreas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004
characterizing the extent of heterogeneity within an industry that is robust with regard to extreme values of a few small firms. It … was found that the level of intra-industry heterogeneity is mainly determined by an industries' average technical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068688
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Alternative Measures of the Explanatory Power of Multivariate Probit Models with Continuous or Ordinal Responses
Spieß, Martin; Tutz, Gerhard - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002
In this paper R2-type measures of the explanatory power of multivariate linear and categorical probit models proposed in the literature are reviewed and their deficiencies are discussed. It is argued that a measure of the explanatory power should take into account the components which are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963825
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Modelling Low Income Transitions
Cappellari, Lorenzo; Jenkins, Stephen P. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002
We examine the determinants of low income transitions using first-order Markov models that control for initial conditions effects (those found to be poor in the base year may be a nonrandom sample) and for attrition (panel retention may also be non-random). Our econometric model is a form of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963755
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Labor Supply and Child Care Choices in a Rationed Child Care Market
Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
discrete choice panel data model controlling for unobserved heterogeneity to simultaneously estimate labor supply and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360170
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A Switch from Joint to Individual Taxation Is Welfare Improving
Decoster, André; Haan, Peter - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
heterogeneity in the population and use normative welfare concepts proposed in Fleurbaey (2006) to solve the difficulties of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368912
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Empirical Welfare Analysis in Random Utility Models of Labour Supply
Decoster, André; Haan, Peter - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
preference heterogeneity in the normative step of the analysis. They also make the ethical priors, implicit in any interpersonal … measures. We retrieve individual and household specific preference heterogeneity, by estimating a structural discrete choice … different metrics, each embodying different ethical choices concerning the preference heterogeneity in the consumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693466
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Labor Supply and Child Care Choices in a Rationed Child Care Market
Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
discrete choice panel data model controlling for unobserved heterogeneity to simultaneously estimate labor supply and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963799
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The Excess Demand for Subsidized Child Care in Germany
Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005
The extension of subsidized child care is currently on the top of the political agenda in Germany. In this paper the excess demand for subsidized child care slots is estimated using a partial observability model in the style of Abowd and Farber (1982). The results show that more than 50 percent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963975
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"Marginal Employment": Stepping Stone or Dead End? Evaluating the German Experience
Freier, Ronny; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
"Marginal Employment", i.e. employment at low working hours and earnings not covered by social security, has been gaining importance in the German economy over the past decade. Using a large newly available panel data set and statistical matching techniques, we analyse the effects of marginal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068720