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Income and Happiness: New Results from Generalized Threshold and Sequential Models

Boes, Stefan; Winkelmann, Rainer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Empirical studies on the relationship between income and happiness commonly use standard ordered response models, the most well-known representatives being the ordered logit and the ordered probit. However, these models restrict the marginal probability effects by design, and therefore limit the...

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Semiparametric Selection Models with Binary Outcomes

Klein, Roger; Shen, Chan; Vella, Francis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper addresses the estimation of a semiparametric sample selection index model where both the selection rule and the outcome variable are binary. Since the marginal effects are often of primary interest and are difficult to recover in a semiparametric setting, we develop estimators for...

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Identifying Sorting: In Theory

Eeckhout, Jan; Kircher, Philipp - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We argue that using wage data alone, it is virtually impossible to identify whether Assortative Matching between worker and firm types is positive or negative. In standard competitive matching models the wages are determined by the marginal contribution of a worker, and the marginal contribution...

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On the Identification of Frisch Labor Supplies

Donni, Olivier - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper examines how Frisch labor supplies, and other structural components of the intertemporal model of labor supply, can be recovered from estimates obtained with the approach developed by Heckman and MaCurdy.

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Labor Supply, Home Production and Welfare Comparisons

Donni, Olivier - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

that, even if domestic labor supplies are not observed, valid welfare comparisons are possible. This identification result …

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Imposing Economic Constraints in Nonparametric Regression: Survey, Implementation and Extension

Henderson, Daniel J.; Parmeter, Christopher F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Economic conditions such as convexity, homogeneity, homotheticity, and monotonicity are all important assumptions or consequences of assumptions of economic functionals to be estimated. Recent research has seen a renewed interest in imposing constraints in nonparametric regression. We survey the...

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On th Identification of Relative Wage Rigidity Dynamics. A Proposal for a Methodology on Cross-Section Data and Empirical Evidence for Poland in Transition

Puhani, Patrick A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

We present a new and simple empirical methodology to identify relative wage rigidity dynamics. The methodology is applied to data from the Polish Labour Force Survey for the period 1994 to 1998. We estimate ceteris paribus in relative wage and unemployment differentials for various labour market...

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The Causal Effect of Parent’s Schooling on Children’s Schooling: A Comparison of Estimation Methods

Holmlund, Helena; Lindahl, Mikael; Plug, Erik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

use different identification strategies. Three identification strategies that are currently in use rely on: identical … quality of each identification procedure; and (iii) get at better perspective about intergenerational effects of education. We … find that the three identification strategies all produce intergenerational schooling estimates that are lower than the …

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The Rise and Fall of Swiss Unemployment: Relative Demand Shocks, Wage Rigidities, and Temporary Immigrants

Puhani, Patrick A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

Switzerland, traditionally a ‘zero unemployment’ economy, has seen an unprecedented rise in joblessness in the 1990s although unemployment fell again to a rather low level after 1997. This paper tests whether Switzerland experienced a negative relative net demand shock against the low...

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The Effect of Active Labor Market Programs on Not-Yet Treated Unemployed Individuals

den Berg, Gerard J. van; Bergemann, Annette; Caliendo, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Labor market programs may affect unemployed individuals' behavior before they enroll. Such ex ante effects are hard to identify without model assumptions. We develop a novel method that relates self-reported perceived treatment rates and job-search behavioral outcomes, like the reservation wage,...

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