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The Impact of Training on Earnings: Differences Between Participant Groups and Training Forms
Kuckulenz, Anja; Zwick, Thomas - 2003
participation on earnings correcting for the endogeneity of training participation. By using a broad list of employee and employer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297306
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Reassessing the Impact of High Performance Workplaces
Zwick, Thomas; Wolf, Elke - 2002
both unobserved heterogeneity and endogeneity using establishment panel data for Germany. We show that increasing employee …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298114
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Robustness of VSL Values from Contingent Valuation Surveys
Alberini, Anna - 2004
This paper examines factors that may influence the estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life obtained from contingent valuation surveys that elicit the willingness to pay (WTP) for mortality risk reductions. We examine the importance of distributional assumptions, the choice of the welfare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325006
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Health and Work of the Elderly
Lindeboom, Maarten; Kerkhofs, Marcel - 2002
This paper aims to exp1ore the interre1ation between hea1th and work decisions of e1der1y workers, taking the various ways in which hea1th and work can influence each other exp1icitly into account. For this, two issues are of re1evance. Se1f-assessed health measures are usually at hand in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324746
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Are Education and Entrepreneurial Income Endogenous and do Family Background Variables make Sense as Instruments? A Bayesian Analysis
Block, Joern H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Roy - 2010
endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial … endogeneity is really present, whether it matters and whether the selected instruments make sense. Using Bayesian methods, we find … that the relationship between education and entrepreneurial income is indeed endogenous and that the impact of endogeneity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325824
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Management ownership and firm's value: An empirical analysis using panel data
Lee, Sang-Mook; Ryu, Keunkwan - 2003
firm value, an endogeneity argument a la Demsetz (1983). We find that history of the management ownership, not its current …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332313
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Are Education and Entrepreneurial Income Endogenous and Do Family Background Variables Make Sense as Instruments? A Bayesian Analysis
Block, Jörn H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart F.; Thurik, A. Roy - 2010
endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial … endogeneity is really present, whether it matters and whether the selected instruments make sense. Using Bayesian methods, we find … that the relationship between education and entrepreneurial income is indeed endogenous and that the impact of endogeneity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600971
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High School Types, Academic Performance and Early Labour Market Outcomes
Cappellari, Lorenzo - 2004
Using microdata on the 1995 cohort of Italian high school graduates, this paper studies the relationship between the type of high school attended (general versus technical; private versus public) and indicators of subsequent performance. Simultaneity issues that potentially bias this type of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261813
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Gender and racial discrimination in pay and promotion for NHS nurses
Pudney, Stephen; Shields, Michael A. - 1999
For many years the NHS has been subject to allegations that gender and racial discrimination are a feature of the internal labour market for qualified nurses. This paper examines this issue with regard to the promotion process using 1994 survey data. We start by rejecting the assumption of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262305
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The Impact of Alcohol Consumption on Occupational Attainment in England
MacDonald, Ziggy; Shields, Michael A. - 2000
In this study we provide evidence on the effect of alcohol consumption on occupational attainment in England. To do this we use samples of employees from the Health Survey for England between 1992 and 1996. We find that due to the endogenous nature of alcohol consumption, OLS estimates may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262375