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How Damaging Is Part-Time Employment to a Woman's Occupational Prospects?
Prowse, Victoria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
attainment amongst British women. In particular, the relative importance of structural factors and unobserved heterogeneity to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566351
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How Damaging is Part-time Employment to a Woman`s Occupational Prospects?
Prowse, Victoria - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2005
attainment amongst British women. In particular, the relative importance of structural factors and unobserved heterogeneity to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010605015
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State Dependence in a Multi-state Model of Employment Dynamics
Prowse, Victoria - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2005
A multinomial choice framework is used to investigate the nature of women`s transitions between full-time employment, part-time employment and non-employment. The stochastic framework allows time varying and time invariant unobserved preferences, and also controls for the possible endogenity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604916
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State Dependence in a Multi-State Model of Employment Dynamics
Prowse, Victoria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
A multinomial choice framework is used to investigate the nature of women's transitions between full-time employment, part-time employment and non-employment. The stochastic framework allows time varying and time invariant unobserved preferences, and also controls for the possible endogeneity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822151
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State Dependence in a Multi-state Model of Employment
Prowse, Victoria - Economics Group, Nuffield College, University of Oxford - 2005
A multinomial choice framework is used to investigate the nature of women's transitions between full-time employment, part-time employment and non-employment. The stochastic framework allows time varying and time invariant unobserved preferences, and also controls for the possible endogenity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005730299
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Equality of Opportunity, Heterogeneity and Poverty
Nilsson, William - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2005
identical twins, this study takes advantage of the similarity within pairs of twins to separate family specific heterogeneity … whether an individual received social assistance as a measure of poverty, family specific heterogeneity explains between 24 … selection problem can occur. To deal with this problem, and also to take care of unobserved heterogeneity, a sample selection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005424018
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An Analysis of Own Account Trading by Dual Traders in Futures Markets: A Bayesian Approach.
Chakravarty, Sugato; Li, Kai - Krannert School of Management, Purdue University - 2000
Using an audit trail transaction data set compiled by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), we seek to ascertain directly the motives behind dual traders’ own account trading and whether or not they are informed traders. We estimate our system of equations on each of the 101 most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835346
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A Factor-Analytic Probit Model for Representing the Market Structure in Panel Data
Elrod, Terry; Keane, Michael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1995
Internal market structure analysis infers both brand attributes and consumer preferences for those attributes from preference or choice data. The authors exploit a new method for estimating probit models from panel data to infer market structures that can be displayed in few dimensions, even...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113209
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Part-time work as a transitional phase? The role of preferences and institutions in Germany, Great Britain and The Netherlands.
Dekker, Ronald - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper uses 11 years of data from household panel data sets for the Netherlands, Germany and Great-Britain to investigate part-time employment and the role of institutions and preferences on transitions from part-time into full-time employment or into other employment statuses. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837093
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Part-time Work and Occupational Attainment Amongst a Cohort of British Women
Prowse, Victoria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Using data on a cohort of British women who were born in 1958, this paper investigates the effects of qualifications, household structure and family background on the occupational penalty suffered by women in part-time employment. The analysis is conducted using a dynamic multinomial modelling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566373