Similar Search Results

The Life-Cycle and the Business-Cycle of Wage Risk: A Cross-Country Comparison

Bayer, Christian; Juessen, Falko - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper provides a cross-country comparison of life-cycle and business-cycle fluctuations in the dispersion of household-level wage innovations. We draw our inference from household panel data sets for the US, the UK, and Germany. First, we find that household characteristics explain about...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015462

New Evidence on the Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany – A Matching Approach with Threefold Heterogeneity

Hujer, Reinhard; Caliendo, Marco; Thomsen, Stephan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

justifies the application of a matching estimator but also allows to take account of threefold heterogeneity. The recently … heterogeneity. The results show considerable differences with respect to these sources of heterogeneity, but the overall finding is …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762428

Female Labour Supply, Flexibility of Working Hours, and Job Mobility in the Netherlands

Euwals, Rob - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

In the empirical literature on labour supply, several static models are developed to incorporate constraints on working hours. These models do not address to what extent working hours are constrained within jobs, and to what extent working hours can be adjusted by means of changing employer. The...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566578

Normalized Equation and Decomposition Analysis: Computation and Inference

Yun, Myeong-Su - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper joins discussions on normalized regression and decomposition equations in devising a simple and general algorithm for obtaining the normalized regression and applying it to the Oaxaca decomposition. This resolves the invariance problem in the detailed Oaxaca decomposition. An...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763551

Multivariate Decomposition for Hazard Rate Models

Powers, Daniel A.; Yun, Myeong-Su - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We develop a regression decomposition technique for hazard rate models, where the difference in observed rates is decomposed into components attributable to group differences in characteristics and group differences in effects. The baseline hazard is specified using a piecewise constant...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700937

On the Dynamics of Interstate Migration: Migration Costs and Self-Selection

Bayer, Christian; Juessen, Falko - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper develops a tractable dynamic microeconomic model of migration decisions that is aggregated to describe the behavior of interregional migration. Our structural approach allows us to deal with dynamic self-selection problems that arise from the endogeneity of location choice and the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703095

Electoral Rules and Politicians’ Behavior: A Micro Test

Gagliarducci, Stefano; Nannicini, Tommaso; Naticchioni, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Theory predicts that the majoritarian electoral system should produce more targeted redistribution and lower politicians’ rents than proportional representation. We test these predictions using micro data for the mixed-member Italian House of Representatives, which allow us to sidestep the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703268

Revisiting Inter-Industry Wage Differentials and the Gender Wage Gap: An Identification Problem

Yun, Myeong-Su - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We propose a measure of the industrial gender wage gap which is free from an identification problem by using inter-industry wage differentials, or industrial wage premia. We draw on a recent literature showing that a normalized regression equation can be used to resolve the identification...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703593

Industry Wage Differentials Revisited: A Longitudinal Comparison of Germany and USA (1984-1996)

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

unobserved heterogeneity in the random effects panel estimations reduces the industry wage dispersion by about half. Thus …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703674

A Continuous Labour Supply Model in Microsimulation: A Life-Cycle Modelling Approach with Heterogeneity and Uncertainty Extension

Li, Jinjing; Sologon, Denisa Maria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

the inability to incorporate individual heterogeneity as every agent is sharing the same parameters of the utility … capturing individual heterogeneity. First, a "fixed effect vector decomposition" model, which allows the individual specific … random coefficient model, which incorporates a higher degree of individual heterogeneity by specifying individual …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371875