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A collective retirement model : identification and estimation in the presence of externalities

Michaud, Pierre-Carl (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

We study the labor supply dynamics of elderly couples by means of a structural collective model. The model allows for general externalities with respect to spouses' leisure. Preferences and the intrahousehold bargaining process are identified by using panel data with couples and individuals who...

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Skin Tone's decreasing importance on employment : evidence from a longitudinal dataset, 1985-2000

Akee, Randall; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2010

We investigate the effect of skin tone on employment probabilities in a longitudinal data set. Using an objective … tone on employment has diminished. These results hold both across the white and African-American samples as well as within … attributed to African-American women; there are no changes in the employment probabilities for African-American men in the 15 …

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How did the elimination of the earnings test above the normal retirement age affect retirement expectations?

Michaud, Pierre-Carl (contributor); … - 2007

We look at the effect of the 2000 repeal of the earnings test above the normal retirement age (NRA) on retirement expectations of male workers in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Using administrative records on Social Security benefit entitlements linked to the HRS survey data, we can...

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On the rise of health spending and longevity

Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Galama, Titus; … - 2009

We use a calibrated stochastic life-cycle model of endogenous health spending, asset accumulation and retirement to investigate the causes behind the increase in health spending and life expectancy over the period 1965-2005. We estimate that technological change along with the increase in the...

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Constitutions and economic development: evidence from the American Indian Nations

Akee, Randall; Jorgensen, Miriam; Sunde, Uwe - 2012

parliamentary systems, such as larger public employment, and more equitable income distribution. -- economic development …

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Transnational trafficking, law enforcement and victim protection : a middleman trafficker's perspective

Akee, Randall; Bedi, Arjun Singh; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, … - 2011

and foreign crackdowns on illicit employment mutually reinforce or counteract one another in efforts to stem the tide of …

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Unobserved ability and the return to schooling

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2002

We estimate a structural dynamic programming model of schooling decisions with unobserved heterogeneity in school ability and market ability on a sample taken from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). Both the instantaneous utility of attending school and the wage regression...

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A structural analysis of the correlated random coefficient wage regression model

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2002

We estimate a finite mixture dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the log wage regression function is set in a random coefficient framework. The model allows for absolute and comparative advantages in the labor market and assumes that the population is composed of 8 unknown...

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Earnings dispersion, risk aversion and eduation

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2002

experienced in labor market earnings through wage dispersion and employment rate dispersion. We find a low degree of relative risk … aversion (0.9282) and the estimates indicate that both wage and employment rate dispersions decrease significantly with …

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On the specification of mincerian wage regressions with heterogeneity, non-linearity, non-separability, and heteroskedasticity

Belzil, Christian (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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