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Income vs. Consumption Inequality in South Korea: Evaluating Stochastic Dominance Rankings by Various Household Attributes

Heshmati, Almas; Rudolf, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Using four rounds (1999, 2002, 2005, 2008) of the Korean Labor and Income Panel Study (KLIPS), this article examines determinants of household income and consumption levels and inequalities. Unconditional as well as conditional stochastic dominance (SD) tests are performed by year, by household...

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Searching for Rehabilitation in Nonparametric Regression Models with Exogenous Treatment Assignment

Henderson, Daniel J.; Maasoumi, Esfandiar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper offers some new directions in the analysis of nonparamertric models with exogenous treatment assignment. The nonparametric approach opens the door to the examination of potentially different distributed outcomes. When combined with cross-validation, it also identifies potentially...

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Evaluating Dominance Ranking of PSID Incomes by Various Household Attributes

Maasoumi, Esfandiar; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

composite null hypotheses of SD orders. This is in contrast to simulation and bootstrap-based techniques that do so, resulting …

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Evaluating the Dynamic Employment Effects of Training Programs in East Germany Using Conditional Difference-in-Differences

Bergemann, Annette; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Speckesser, Stefan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This study analyzes the employment effects of training in East Germany. We propose and apply an extension of the widely used conditional difference-in-differences evaluation method. Focusing on transition rates between nonemployment and employment we take into account that employment is a state...

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Misspecification Testing in a Class of Conditional Distributional Models

Rothe, Christoph; Wied, Dominik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We propose a specification test for a wide range of parametric models for the conditional distribution function of an outcome variable given a vector of covariates. The test is based on the Cramer-von Mises distance between an unrestricted estimate of the joint distribution function of the data,...

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When, Where and How to Perform Efficiency Estimation

Badunenko, Oleg; Henderson, Daniel J.; Kumbhakar, Subal C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

In this paper we compare two flexible estimators of technical efficiency in a cross-sectional setting: the nonparametric kernel SFA estimator of Fan, Li and Weersink (1996) to the nonparametric bias corrected DEA estimator of Kneip, Simar and Wilson (2008). We assess the finite sample...

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Socioeconomic Assimilation and Wealth Accumulation of Migrants in Australia

Vaira-Lucero, Matias; Nahm, Daehoon; Tani, Massimiliano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper investigates to what extent the wealth accumulation of immigrants is explained by their degree of assimilation, defined as the immigrants' capacity to become more similar over time to the local people in terms of their norms, values, behaviours, and socioeconomic characteristics. The...

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The Effects of Occupational Knowledge: Job Information Centers, Educational Choices, and Labor Market Outcomes

Saniter, Nils; Siedler, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This study examines the causal link between individuals' occupational knowledge, educational choices, and labor market outcomes. We proxy occupational knowledge with mandatory visits to job information centers (JICs) in Germany while still attending school. Exogenous variation in the location...

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Does Expert Advice Improve Educational Choice?

Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H.H.; Stenberg, Anders - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

practices between schools. Tentative analyses also indicate that counselors reduce students' uncertainty about their own … individual preferences at least to the same extent as uncertainty about objective measures such as employment prospects. …

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When Do Remittances Facilitate Asset Accumulation? The Importance of Remittance Income Uncertainty

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Pozo, Susan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

uncertainty of remittance income inflows affects the accumulation of human, physical and financial assets of Mexican households …, while accounting for the level of transfers from family abroad. We find that both the level and the uncertainty of … income hypothesis and theories of precautionary saving, a one standard deviation increase in the uncertainty of remittance …

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