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Semiparametric Estimation and Inference Using Doubly Robust Moment Conditions

Rothe, Christoph; Firpo, Sergio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We study semiparametric two-step estimators which have the same structure as parametric doubly robust estimators in their second step, but retain a fully nonparametric specification in the first step. Such estimators exist in many economic applications, including a wide range of missing data and...

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Overeducation at the Start of the Career: Stepping Stone or Trap?

Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart; Verhaest, Dieter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This study investigates whether young unemployed graduates who accept a job below their level of education accelerate or delay the transition into a job that matches their level of education. We adopt the Timing of Events approach to identify this dynamic treatment effect using monthly calendar...

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Offshoring and Job Stability: Evidence from Italian Manufacturing

Lo Turco, Alessia; Maggioni, Daniela; Picchio, Matteo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We study the relationship between offshoring and job stability in Italy in the period 1995–2001 by using an administrative dataset on manufacturing workers. We find that the international fragmentation of production negatively affects job stability. Service offshoring and material purchases...

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The Dynamics of Repeat Migration: A Markov Chain Analysis

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

While the literature has established that there is substantial and highly selective return migration, the growing importance of repeat migration has been largely ignored. Using Markov chain analysis, this paper provides a modeling framework for repeated moves of migrants between the host and...

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U.S. Unemployment Duration: Has Long Become Longer or Short Become Shorter?

Machado, José A.F.; Portugal, Pedro; Guimaraes, Juliana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

The U.S. labor market has been experiencing unprecedented high average unemployment duration. The shift in the … unemployment duration distribution can be traced back to the early nineties. In this study, censored quantile regression methods … are employed to analyze the changes in the US unemployment duration distribution. We explore the decomposition method …

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Inference for Shared-Frailty Survival Models with Left-Truncated Data

den Berg, Gerard J. van; Drepper, Bettina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Shared-frailty survival models specify that systematic unobserved determinants of duration outcomes are identical … within groups of individuals. We consider random-effects likelihood-based statistical inference if the duration data are …

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Why Are So Many Disabled Individuals Not Working in Spain? A Job Search Approach

Silva, José I.; Vall Castello, Judit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

a complementary log-log duration model. According to both models, the probability of finding a job falls with the level …

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The Transition from Welfare to Work and the Role of Potential Labor Income

Schneider, Hilmar; Uhlendorff, Arne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

It is often argued that the high level of welfare claims in Germany causes little incentive for workers with low productivity to seek for a job. We examine the influence of the ratio between estimated potential labor income and the welfare payment level on the probability of leaving social...

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Entrepreneurship and Survival Dynamics of Immigrants to the U.S. and their Descendants

Georgarakos, Dimitris; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Many studies have explored the determinants of entering into entrepreneurship and the differences in self-employment rates across racial and ethnic groups. However, very little is known about the survival in entrepreneurship of immigrants to the U.S. and their descendants. Employing data from...

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Estimating the Probability of Leaving Unemployment Using Uncompleted Spells from Repeated Cross-Section Data

Güell, Maia; Hu, Luojia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper proposes a new econometric estimation method for analyzing the probability of leaving unemployment using uncompleted spells from repeated cross-section data, which can be especially useful when panel data are not available. The proposed method-ofmoments- based estimator has two...

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