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The paper proposes two estimation approaches for duration models that are subject to right censored observations and … selection effects. Main focus is on accelerated duration models and the estimators that are of the limited information type, i …
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these transitions allows the identification of duration dependence in the job offer arrival rate and the wage offer … likelihood. The results show that the presence of significant negative duration dependence in the wage offer distribution causes … reservation wages to decrease. The rate at which job offers arrive is constant over the unemployment duration. These findings …
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negatively selected on unobservables. A beneficial (unemployment-duration reducing) causal effect of internet job search is …
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In this paper, we compile a unique historical dataset that records strike activity in the British engineering industry from 1920 to 1970. These data have the advantage of containing a fairly homogenous set of companies and workers, covering a long period with varying labour market conditions,...
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This study is the first to present evidence of the return to leisure sports in the job hiring process by sending fictitious applications to real job openings in the Swedish labor market. In the field experiment job applicants were randomly given different information about their type and level...
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differ from natives', and if so, how the difference vary with time spent in Sweden and across immigrant cohorts. A unique …
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-run effects of receiving social assistance on future household earnings and disposable income. The results show that state …
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by work absence. The experiment altered the work absence incentives for half of all employees living in Göteborg, Sweden …
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This paper analyzes the persistence of poverty in Sweden using a hazard rate model based on multiple spells. The model … representative Swedish panel data set, LINDA, for the years 1991 to 2001. The data contains precise information on household … there is significant negative duration dependence in both exit and entry hazard rates. Moreover, the transition rates are …
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-2004. We estimate duration models dealing with selection on unobservables. We use weighted exogenous sampling maximum …
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