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Characterizing the Schooling Cycle
Sadaba, Barbara; Vujic, Suncica; Maier, Sofia - 2022
This paper develops a novel and tractable empirical approach to estimate the cycle in schooling participation decisions, which we denominate the schooling cycle. The estimation procedure is based on unobserved components time series models that decompose higher education enrollment rates into a...
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A Simple Solution to the Identification Problem in Detailed Wage Decompositions
Yun, Myeong-Su - 2003
identification problem since the detailed coefficients effect attributed to a dummy variable is not invariant to the choice of … reference groups. It turns out that the identification problem in the decomposition equation is a disguised identification …. The identification problem is automatically resolved once we obtain ?normalized? regression equations for two comparison …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261567
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Identification and Estimation of Economic Models of Outmigration Using Panel Attrition
Bellemare, Charles - 2004
Because their departures are difficultly observed, little is known about the performance of immigrants who leave a region and move to another. This paper shows conditions under which the (conditional) outmigration probability, work probability and the expected earnings of outmigrants are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261828
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A Conceptual Framework for the Evaluation of Comprehensive Labor Market Policy Reforms in Germany
Fertig, Michael; Kluve, Jochen - 2004
Over the last year the German government has introduced a comprehensive set of labor market policy reforms, the so-called Hartz reforms, which aim at a significant reduction of unemployment. To this end, (a) many of the existing instruments of active labor market policy are modified...
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A Collective Retirement Model : Identification and Estimation in the Presence of Externalities
Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Vermeulen, Frederic - 2004
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262042
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The Rise and Fall of Swiss Unemployment: Relative Demand Shocks, Wage Rigidities, and Temporary Immigrants
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003
Switzerland, traditionally a ?zero unemployment? economy, has seen an unprecedented rise in joblessness in the 1990s although unemployment fell again to a rather low level after 1997. This paper tests whether Switzerland experienced a negative relative net demand shock against the low skilled...
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Living in Two Neighborhoods : Social Interactions in the Lab
Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - 2004
interaction effects. We conduct an experiment that avoids the identification problem present in the field. Our novel design …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262127
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Labor Supply, Home Production and Welfare Comparisons
Donni, Olivier - 2005
that, even if domestic labor supplies are not observed, valid welfare comparisons are possible. This identification result …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262223
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On th Identification of Relative Wage Rigidity Dynamics.
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2000
We present a new and simple empirical methodology to identify relative wage rigidity dynamics. The methodology is applied to data from the Polish Labour Force Survey for the period 1994 to 1998. We estimate ceteris paribus changes in relative wage and unemployment differentials for various...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262433
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Wage Rigidities in Western Germany?
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2001
This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been ?rigid? in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a methodology which makes less restrictive identifying...
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