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Using data from the first fourteen waves of the British Household Panel Survey, we estimate a discrete duration model … entry as well as unobserved heterogeneity. We find considerable duration dependence in region of residence in the raw data …
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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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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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-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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negatively selected on unobservables. A beneficial (unemployment-duration reducing) causal effect of internet job search is …
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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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-2004. We estimate duration models dealing with selection on unobservables. We use weighted exogenous sampling maximum …
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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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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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Contract law and the economics of contract have, for the most part, developed independently of each other. In this … essay, we briefly review the notion of a contract from the perspective of lawyer, and then use this framework to organize … the economics literature on contract. The title, Contracts between Legal Persons, limits the review to that part of …
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