We estimate a flexible reduced form dynamic model of schooling choices and labor market outcomes in France. Our analysis focuses on the comparison between second-generation immigrants and their French-natives counterparts. We show that the gap in higher education attainments between those two...

A nonstationary model of individual labor market histories, where the distribution of wages offers depends on elapsed unemployment duration and where unemployment compensation is claimed for a limited period only, is estimated from sample information on completed unemployment duration, accepted...

The statistical relationship between accepted job duration and the job-to-job transition strategy chosen by job quitters is analyzed using parametric duration methods. Because job quitters can sort themselves between unemployed and employed search, the labor-market state occupied before...