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Frijters, Paul; van der Klaauw, Bas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

these transitions allows the identification of duration dependence in the job offer arrival rate and the wage offer … likelihood. The results show that the presence of significant negative duration dependence in the wage offer distribution causes … reservation wages to decrease. The rate at which job offers arrive is constant over the unemployment duration. These findings …

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Explaining How Delayed Motherhood Affects Fertility Dynamics in Europe

Bratti, Massimiliano; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper analyzes the effect of delayed motherhood on fertility dynamics for women living in several European countries, which differ in terms of their institutional environments. We show that the effect of delaying the first child on the transition to the second birth differs both among...

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A Simple Approach to Treatment Effects on Durations When the Treatment Timing is Chosen

Lee, Myoung-jae; Johansson, Per - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

-mixed proportional-hazard approach with three durations: the waiting time until treatment, the untreated duration from the baseline, and … the treated duration from the treatment timing. To implement the proposal, we use semiparametric piecewise … subsidy effects on unemployment duration to find about 11.1 month reduction. …

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Internet Job Search and Unemployment Durations

Kuhn, Peter; Skuterud, Mikal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

negatively selected on unobservables. A beneficial (unemployment-duration reducing) causal effect of internet job search is …

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Comparing the Effectiveness of Employment Subsidies

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should be targeted. We contrast measures involving targeting workers with low incomes/abilities and targeting the unemployed under the criteria of "approximate welfare efficiency" (AWE). Thereby we can identify policies...

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Monitoring Job Offer Decisions, Punishments, Exit to Work, and Job Quality

den Berg, Gerard J. van; Vikström, Johan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

-2004. We estimate duration models dealing with selection on unobservables. We use weighted exogenous sampling maximum …

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A Good Time to Stay Out? Strikes and the Business Cycle

Devereux, Paul; Hart, Robert A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

In this paper, we compile a unique historical dataset that records strike activity in the British engineering industry from 1920 to 1970. These data have the advantage of containing a fairly homogenous set of companies and workers, covering a long period with varying labour market conditions,...

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Unequal Chances on the Transitional Labor Market: The Case of the Netherlands

Bijwaard, Govert; Veenman, Justus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

the stock-sampling and the possible maximum duration for the transitions from unemployment, household care and disability … to employment. Then we decompose the difference in expected duration between the immigrant groups and the Dutch into the …

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Medical Interventions among Pregnant Women in Fee-for-Service and Managed Care Insurance: A Propensity Score Analysis

Turcotte, Leo; Robst, John; Polachek, Solomon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We extend prior research on the effect of managed care on the receipt of four medical interventions for pregnant women: ultrasound, induction/stimulation of birth, electronic fetal monitor, and cesarean delivery. Propensity score methods are used to account for sample selection issues regarding...

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Impact of China's Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance on Health Care Utilization and Expenditure

Liu, Hong; Zhao, Zhong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Insurance, for urban residents without formal employment, including children, the elderly, and other unemployed urban residents …

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