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Does employing undocumented workers give firms a competitive advantage?

Brown, J. David; Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Quispe-Agnoli, Myriam - 2012

Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, this paper finds that, on average, across all firms, employing undocumented workers reduces a firm’s hazard of exit by 19 percent. The advantage to firms from employing undocumented workers increases as more firms in the industry do so,...

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Predicting US bank failures with internet search volume data

Schaffner, Florian - 2015

This study investigates how well weekly Google search volumes track and predict bank failures in the United States between 2007 and 2012, contributing to the expanding literature that exploits internet data for the prediction of events. Different duration models with time-varying covariates are...

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Can sickness absence be affected by information meetings? Evidence from a social experiment

Johansson, Per; Lindahl, Erica - 2010

During the last decade several empirical studies have stressed the importance of norms and social interactions for explaining sickness absence behavior. In this context public discussions about the intentions of the insurance, and of the rights and duties of the receivers, may be important for...

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Multinationals and Plant Survivals in Swedish Manufacturing

Bandick, Roger - 2007

Are multinational enterprises MNEs more likely than none-MNEs, owing to their footlose charater, to close down their plants? The results from using a panel o all Swedish manufacturing plants over the period 1993 and 2002 suggest that MNE plants, and in particular Swedish MNE plants, have higher...

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A general semiparametric approach to inference with marker-dependent hazard rate models

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Janys, Lena; Mammen, Enno; … - 2016

We examine a new general class of hazard rate models for survival data, containing a parametric and a nonparametric component. Both can be a mix of a time effect and (possibly time-dependent) marker of covariate effects. A number of well-known models are special cases. In a counting process...

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A heterogeneity analysis of the Bolsa Família Programme effect on men and women's work supply

Teixeira, Clarissa Gondim - 2010

This article analyses the impact of the Programa Bolsa Família (PBF), Brazil's Conditional Cash Transfer Programme), by way of an income shock on the labour supply of beneficiaries as measured by probability of working and number of weekly hours worked by both men and women. Bolsa Família...

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Estimating a semi-parametric duration model without specifying heterogeneity

Hausman, Jerry A.; Woutersen, Tiemen M. - 2005

This paper presents a new estimator for the mixed proportional hazard model that allows for a nonparametric baseline hazard and time-varying regressors. In particular, this paper allows for discrete measurement of the durations as happens often in practice. The integrated baseline hazard and all...

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The ambiguity triangle: Uncovering fundamental patterns of behavior under uncertainty

Burghart, Daniel R.; Epper, Thomas; Fehr, Ernst - 2015

test for a constant ambiguity attitude. Yet, among these 60% of subjects there is substantial preference heterogeneity. We … characterize this heterogeneity with finite-mixture estimates of a one-parameter extension of Expected Utility Theory wherein 48 … preference heterogeneity for these subjects. We show that for a substantial share of these subjects (43%) their fanning-in is so …

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A Model of Union Formation

Westermark, Andreas - 1999

changes in heterogeneity, e.g. increased demand for skilled labor, are also analyzed. In the most reasonable setup, a change … in heterogeneity does not affect the decision whether to form a union or not. This contrasts with the result in Jun (1989). …

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Heterogeneous convergence

Young, Andrew T.; Higgins, Matthew J.; Levy, Daniel - 2013

We use U.S. county-level data to estimate convergence rates for 22 individual states. We find significant heterogeneity …

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