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Pregibit: A Family of Discrete Choice Models

Vijverberg, Chu-Ping C.; Vijverberg, Wim P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

The pregibit discrete choice model is built on a distribution that allows symmetry or asymmetry and thick tails, thin …

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Anthropometric Mobility During Childhood

Millimet, Daniel L.; Tchernis, Rusty - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

the origins of or persistence in childhood anthropometric measures is incomplete. Here, we utilize several nonparametric …

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Persistence in Infant Mortality: Evidence for the Indian States

Arulampalam, Wiji; Bhalotra, Sonia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper investigates the high correlation in infant mortality across siblings using microdata for each of the fifteen major states of India. The main finding is that, in thirteen of the fifteen states, there is evidence of a causal effect of a child death on the risk of death of the...

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Male and Female Labour Force Participation: The Role of Dynamic Adjustments to Changes in Labour Demand, Government Policies and Autonomous Trends

Vendrik, Maarten; Cörvers, Frank - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This study investigates the extent and speed of dynamic adjustment of labour supply to changes in labour demand, government policies and autonomous trends. We estimate error-correction models (ECMs) for male and female participation rates in the Netherlands between 1969 and 2004. The results...

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Is Graduate Under-employment Persistent? Evidence from the United Kingdom

Mosca, Irene; Wright, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper examines the persistence of under-employment amongst UK higher education graduates. For the cohort of …

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Do Business Cycles Have Long-Term Impact for Particular Cohorts?

Andersen, Torben M.; Maibom Pedersen, Jonas; Svarer, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

explicit cohort perspective and based on Danish data we do not find strong persistence in employment rates at the cohort level … quickly from such set-backs than older workers for whom persistence is stronger. Moreover, no cohorts have been … assessments of persistence in aggregate employment rates. …

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The Persistence of Welfare Participation

Andrén, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Welfare persistence is estimated in and compared between Swedish-born and foreign-born households. This is done within … heterogeneity. Three different types of persistence are controlled for in terms of observed and unobserved heterogeneity, serial …

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Self-Productivity and Complementarities in Human Development: Evidence from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk

Blomeyer, Dorothea; Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper investigates the role of self-productivity and home resources in capability formation from infancy to adolescence. In addition, we study the complementarities between basic cognitive, motor and noncognitive abilities and social as well as academic achievement. Our data are taken from...

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Inflation Persistence and the Phillips Curve Revisited

Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

" - although they generate price inertia, they cannot account for the stylised fact of inflation persistence. It is thus commonly …-price staggering models can generate both substantial inflation persistence and a nonzero inflation-unemployment tradeoff in the long …

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When and How to Create a Job: The Survival of New Jobs in Austrian Firms

Böheim, René; Stiglbauer, Alfred; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

While the volatility of job creations has been studied extensively, the survival chances of new jobs are less …

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