This paper analyses the effects of different model specifications.

In an overlapping generations model, momentary equilibria are defined as points that lieon the intergenerational offer curve, i.e., they satisfy agents’ optimality conditions and marketclearing at any date. However, some dynamic sequences commencing from such points may notbe considered valid...

This paper proposes validation using simulation based indirect estimation. It uses typical characteristic moments of financial market data to assess the similarity of simulation outcomes.

This paper provides a brief review of readily available labor force and employment data for the United States and local areas. Labor force and employment terminology, geographic parameters, and strengths and weaknesses of available data sets are discussed.[...]

The Iowa Department of Public Health has undertaken several independent projects to evaluate various aspects of the labor environment affecting Iowa healthcare over the recent past. This research expands upon the results of these efforts to estimate the effects of a number of wage and nonwage...

The Iowa Board of Nursing licensing database for Registered Nurses (RNs) contains information on Registered Nurses who have renewed their licenses including age, race, gender, education, and location of employment. It also contains comparable information on nurses who opted not to renew at the...

We investigate the observable determinants of sorting between salary and performace pay jobs, the extent to which wage functions differ between the two, and the magnitude of the unobserved ability differential between salary and performance pay workers...

Switzerland has one of the highest employment rates of older individuals amongindustrialized countries. Nevertheless, in the past decade, Switzerland has experienced amarked trend toward early retirement. This study analyzes the motives of early retirement inSwitzerland in the 1990s...

In this paper we empirically examine differences in search behavior between men andwomen. We assess hypotheses regarding duration of search, wages and tenure. Thehypotheses are derived from two models: the equilibrium search model with discriminatoryfirms by Black (1995) and an opportunity cost...