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This paper analyzes the relationship between commuting time and sick-day absence of US workers. Using data from the … determining how commuting time is related to sickness absenteeism, we shed light on the relationship between commuting behavior …
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While land reforms are typically pursued in order to raise productivity and reduce inequality across households, an unintended consequence may be increased within-household gender inequality. We analyse a tenancy registration programme in West Bengal, and find that it increased child survival...
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The 1973 Raising of the School Leaving Age in England and Wales has been used to identify returns to years' schooling. However, the reform affected the proportion with qualifications, as well as schooling length. To shed light on whether the returns reflect extra schooling or qualifications, we...
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Standard job search theory assumes that unemployed individuals have perfect information about the effect of their search effort on the job offer arrival rate. In this paper, we present an alternative model which assumes instead that each individual has a subjective belief about the impact of his...
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This paper estimates the impact of training incidence and duration on employment transitions accounting for the … endogeneity of program participation and duration. We specify a very flexible bivariate random effects probit model for employment …
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involves conditioning elapsed duration on completed unemployment duration in the reservation wage equation. Our analysis … confirms that the use of elapsed duration alone compounds two separate and opposing influences. Only with the inclusion of … completed duration is the negative effect of continued joblessness on reservation wages apparent. For its part, the completed …
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in continuous time, but institutional factors and/or informational frictions may delay workers' transitions into or out … of a job. This effectively creates discrete time periods of arbitrary length, with continuous time being the limit case …
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This paper includes a survival analysis which attempts to explain the duration, as in the number of years a worker …
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While the Internet has been found to reduce trading frictions in a number of other markets, existing research has failed to detect such an effect in the labor market. In this paper, we replicate Kuhn and Skuterud's (2004) study – which found that Internet job search (IJS) was associated with...
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discrete hazard analysis is used and the duration dependence is captured with time dummies. In almost all the 14 EU Member … conditional, to the duration of spell, exit probabilities and re-entry rates to poverty. In the second part observed … out of poverty, taking into account unobserved heterogeneity across individuals and duration dependence. Multivariate …
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