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Within-Groups Wage Inequality and Schooling: Further Evidence for Portugal
Andini, Corrado - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
, using data on male workers from the 2001 wave of the European Community Household Panel. The issue of schooling endogeneity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822766
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Returns to Education in Four Transition Countries: Quantile Regression Approach
Staneva, Anita; Arabsheibani, Reza; Murphy, Philip D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
allowing for the endogeneity of schooling, using the control function approach proposed by Lee (2007). Using household data … earnings distribution. It is also found that accounting for the endogeneity of schooling leads to a higher rate of return to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008678684
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Time, Money, Peers, and Parents: Some Data and Theories on Teenage Behavior
Kooreman, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
in the Netherlands, and contains information on teenage time use, income, expenditures, and subjective measures of well … social interactions. For some types of behavior (e.g. truancy, smoking, pocket money, alcohol expenditures) endogenous social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703637
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Food Insecurity and Insufficiency at Low Levels of Food Expenditures
Gundersen, Craig; Ribar, David C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
insecurity measures with objective measures of food expenditures and objective and subjective measures of food needs. The study … with food expenditures and negatively associated with needs. The study goes on to examine reports of food hardships at low … very levels of food expenditures, where we conjecture that most people should experience food problems. When expenditures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763718
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Testing for Nonparametric Identification of Causal Effects in the Presence of a Quasi-Instrument
de Luna, Xavier; Johansson, Per - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The identification of average causal effects of a treatment in observational studies is typically based either on the unconfoundedness assumption or on the availability of an instrument. When available, instruments may also be used to test for the unconfoundedness assumption (exogeneity of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990937
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The Effect of Sexual Activity on Wages
Drydakis, Nick - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The purpose of this study is to estimate whether sexual activity is associated with wages, and also to estimate potential interactions between individuals' characteristics, wages and sexual activity. The central hypothesis behind this research is that sexual activity, like health indicators and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884311
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From Micro Data to Causality: Forty Years of Empirical Labor Economics
van der Klaauw, Bas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This overview describes the development of methods for empirical research in the field of labor economics during the past four decades. This period is characterized by the use of micro data to answer policy relevant research question. Prominent in the literature is the search for exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959606
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Income Convergence and the Flow out of Poverty in India, 1994-2005
Quiroga, Barrientos; Andrea, Paola; Blunch, Niels-Hugo; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper explores the dynamics of income and poverty of rural Indian households, 1994-2005. The estimation strategy … explicitly addresses issues pertaining to the potential endogeneity and measurement error of initial income and poverty. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212565
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Quantile Treatment Effects in the Regression Discontinuity Design
Frölich, Markus; Melly, Blaise - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper shows nonparametric identification of quantile treatment effects (QTE) in the regression discontinuity design (RDD) and proposes simple estimators. Quantile treatment effects are a very helpful tool to characterize the effects of certain interventions on the outcome distribution. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233749
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GENDER AND RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN PAY AND PROMOTION FOR NHS NURSES
Pudney, Stephen; Shields, Michael A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999
For many years the NHS has been subject to allegations that gender and racial discrimination are a feature of the internal labour market for qualified nurses. This paper examines this issue with regard to the promotion process using 1994 survey data. We start by rejecting the assumption of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233930