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US versus Sweden : the effect of alternative in-work tax credit policies on labour supply of single mothers

Aaberge, Rolf; Flood, Lennart - 2013

accounts for heterogeneity in consumption-leisure preferences as well as for heterogeneity and constraints in job opportunities …

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Faces of joblessness : characterising employment barriers to inform policy

Fernández, Rodrigo; Immervoll, Herwig; Pacifico, Daniele; … - 2016

This paper proposes a novel method for identifying and visualising key employment obstacles that may prevent individuals from participating fully in the labour market. The approach is intended to complement existing sources of information that governments use when designing and implementing...

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Alternative models of preference heterogeneity for elicited choice probabilities

Kettlewell, Nathan; Walker, Matthew J.; Hong il Yoo - 2024

estimating unobserved preference heterogeneity, a key element in non-market valuation studies. We introduce a fractional response … model based on a mixture of beta distributions. The model enables researchers to uncover preference heterogeneity under … heterogeneity that make the semi-parametric method inconsistent. Using a DCE on alternative fuel vehicles, we illustrate the …

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Global labor market power

Amodio, Francesco; Brancati, Emanuele; Brummund, Peter; … - 2024

We estimate the labor market power of over 13,000 manufacturing establishments across 82 low and middle-income countries around the world. Within local labor markets, larger and more productive firms have higher wage markdowns and pay lower wages. Labor market power across countries exhibits a...

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The consequences of long term unemployment : evidence from matched employer-employee data

Abraham, Katharine G.; Haltiwanger, John C.; Sandusky, … - 2016

from the outset of their spells (heterogeneity). Another is that their bad outcomes are a consequence of the extended … previous researchers that we use to control for individual heterogeneity that might be affecting subsequent labor market … likelihood of subsequent employment. This finding is inconsistent with the heterogeneity ("bad apple") explanation for why the …

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Duration dependence in the exit rate out of unemployment in Belgium : is it true or spurious?

Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2002

On the basis of aggregate data for the early nineties, we analyse the determinants of unemployment duration for laid-off male workers in Wallonia (Belgium). Our results demonstrate that if ranking in recruitment occurs, the standard Mixed Proportional Hazard specification can be too restrictive,...

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Effects of in-class variation and student rank on the probability of withdrawal : cross-section and time-series analysis for UK university students

Arulampalam, Wiji; Naylor, Robin A.; Smith, Jeremy - 2002

From individual-level data for nine entire cohorts of undergraduate students in UK universities, we estimate the probability that an individual will drop out of university during their first-year. We examine the 1984-85 to 1992-93 cohorts of students enrolling full-time for a three or four-year...

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Equality concerns and the limits of self-governance in heterogeneous populations

Gangadharan, Lata; Nikiforakis, Nikos; Villeval, … - 2015

Mechanisms to overcome social dilemmas provide incentives to maximize efficiency. However, often – such as when agents are heterogeneous – there is a trade-off between efficiency and equality. Agents' concerns for equality in such instances can limit the ability of mechanisms to promote...

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Heterogeneous effects of medical interventions on the health of low-risk newborns

Daysal, N. Meltem; Trandafir, Mircea; Ewijk, Reyn van - 2016

, we find no health benefits from additional treatments for average newborns. However, there is substantial heterogeneity …

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Search frictions, competing mechanisms and optimal market segmentation

Cai, Xiaoming; Gautier, Pieter; Wolthoff, Ronald - 2016

In a market in which sellers compete for heterogeneous buyers by posting mechanisms, we analyze how the properties of the meeting technology affect the allocation of buyers to sellers. We show that a separate submarket for each type of buyer is the efficient outcome if and only if meetings are...

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