This paper analyses the link between educational attainment and unemployment risk in a French-German comparison, based … on a discrete time competing risks hazard rate model applied to comparable microdata sets. The unemployment risk is … broken down into the risk of entering unemployment and the risk, once unemployed, of not getting reemployed. The paper …

households. The estimation results suggest that the WTP is not mainly determined by socioeconomic attributes like household …

This paper examines the role of alternative assumptions on savings and expectations for the fixwage traverse with … under the Hicksian Q-Assumption are investigated. Subsequently, the consequences of several savings functions consistent … technological unemployment emerges. Additionally, the assumption of adaptive expectations is introduced, in which case technological …

This paper considers the shape invariant modelling approach in semiparametric regression estimation. Nonparametric … estimation procedure is suggested. √N- consistency of the parameter estimates is proved. Finite sample performance of this …

compound procedure of estimation and calibration based on the 1998 wave of the German socioeconomic panel. We estimate a … estimation of collective models with taxation. …