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What motivates farm couples to seek off-farm labour? : a logit analysis of job transitions

Biørn, Erik; Bjørnsen, Hild-Marte - 2013

In this paper some labour market consequences of transitions in the agriculture sector are examined by combining a 20-year unbalanced panel data set from Norwegian farm couples (households) and logit modeling of one-period transition probabilities. The multi-dimensionality of the problem follows...

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Aggregation versus heterogeneity in cross-country growth empirics

Eberhardt, Markus; Teal, Francis J. - 2011

The cross-country growth literature commonly uses aggregate economy datasets such as the Penn World Table (PWT) to estimate homogeneous production function or convergence regression models. Against the background of a dual economy framework this paper investigates the potential bias arising when...

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Informal Sector in GDP : A Panel Estimation Method

Kansara, Nitesh; Basak, Gopal K.; Das, Pranab Kumar - 2021

Estimation of the activities of the informal sector in an economy poses a serious problem for obtaining a correct … has tried to solve the problem of estimation of the informal sector using the method of latent variables. The standard … approach is generally aims to estimate for a single point. The present paper aims to model the statistical estimation of …

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The added worker effect and the discouraged worker effect for married women in Australia

Gong, Xiaodong - 2010

This paper investigates both the added worker effect (the labour supply responses of women to their partners' job losses) and the discouraged worker effect (workers withdrawing from the labour market because of failed searches) for married women in Australia, with the emphasis on the former. We...

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Microeconomic models with latent variables : applications of measurement error models in empirical industrial organization and labor economics

Hu, Yingyao - 2015

models describe mappings from a latent distribution to an observed distribution. The identification and estimation of …

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The added worker effect for married women in Australia

Gong, Xiaodong - In: The economic record : er 87 (2011), pp. 414-426

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Age cohort effects on unemployment in the US : evidence from the regional level

Ochsen, Carsten - 2020

Since the early 1970s, it was argued that shifts from relatively smaller to larger youth cohorts in the labor force raise the unemploy- ment rate. In contrast, Shimer (2001) comes to a contrary conclusion using US state level data. I provide a theoretical framework for local labor markets that...

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Composition and determinants of the skilled out-migration in the Brazilian formal labor market : a panel data analysis from 1995 to 2006

Freguglia, Ricardo da Silva; Gonçalves, Eduardo; … - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 15 (2014) 1, pp. 100-117

This paper aims to examine the composition and identify determinant factors of interstate the skilled labor loss in the Brazilian formal labor market between 1995 and 2006, with emphasis on the role of individual motivations and regional factors. In order to estimate such determinants, we use a...

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Do supplementary jobs for welfare recipients increase the chance of welfare exit? : evidence from Germany

Mosthaf, Alexander; Schank, Thorsten; Schwarz, Stefan - 2021

Welfare recipients in Germany are allowed to take up supplementary jobs while receiving welfare. The possibility of having a supplementary job was introduced to reduce welfare dependency and facilitate successful labor market integration. In the present study, we use the German Panel Study...

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Regional and sectoral evidence of the macroeconomic effects of labor reallocation : a panel data analysis

Bakas, Dimitrios; Panagiotidis, Theodore; Pelloni, Gianluigi - 2013

This paper re-examines Lilien's sectoral shifts hypothesis for U.S. unemployment. We employ a monthly panel that spans from 1990:01 to 2011:12 for 48 U.S. states. Panel unit root tests that allow for crosssectional dependence reveal the stationarity of unemployment. Within a framework that takes...

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