This paper explores the potential of an approach suggested by Manski of obtaining nonparametric bounds for treatment effects in evaluation studies without knowledge of the participation process. The practical concern is the effects of continuous vocational training in East Germany. The empirical...

This paper aims to assess the effect of the labor market environment on various aspects of college students' job market related behaviors. In some cases, college students hide or evade their unemployment status by extending school registration or transferring to another school. By estimating the...

The existence of the dual labor market in Korea is tested under the two different definitions of the labor market dualism. First, the estimation results from widely used tools such as Heckman's sample selection model support the existence of two wage equations, advocating the presence of labor...

Quantifying the welfare effects of trade liberalization is a core issue in international trade. Existing frameworks assume perfect labor markets and therefore ignore the effects of aggregate employment changes for welfare. We develop a quantitative trade framework which explicitly models labor...

"Using data on workers' flows into and out of employment, unemployment, and not-in-the-labor-force, I construct transition probabilities between "employment" and "unemployment" that can be used in the calibration of economies such as Krusell and Smith's (1998). I show that calibration in Krusell...