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Introducing time-to-educate in a job search model
Becker, Sascha O. (contributor) - 2005
market. At the same time, education is a time-consuming process, and enrolment and dropout decisions depend on expected … in finding a job. Standard models of job search and education assume that skills can be upgraded instantaneously (and … mostly in the form of on-the-job training) at a fixed cost. This paper models education as a time-consuming process, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003189636
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Labor supply dynamics, unemployment and human capital investments
Wasmer, Etienne - 2002
becomes higher but there is no persistence of the supply shock. Higher education prevents this intertemporal multiplication of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410676
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Union wage compression in a Right-to-Manage model
Vogel, Thorsten (contributor) - 2007
Trade unions are consistently found to compress the wage distribution. Moreover, unemployment affects in particular low-skilled workers. The present paper argues that an extended Right-to-Manage model can account for both of these findings. In this model unions compress the wage distribution by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003422977
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A tale of two academic tracks
Asali, Muhammad - 2018
Given asymmetric information, this paper explores the need for non-tenure-track jobs in academia alongside the usual tenure-track positions. It also explains the coexistence of these two types of jobs in research universities as an equilibrium phenomenon. The increased effort needed to produce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011820216
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Some recent advances in measurement error models and methods
Schneeweiß, Hans (contributor);  … - 2005
A measurement error model is a regression model with (substantial) measurement errors in the variables. Disregarding these measurement errors in estimating the regression parameters results in asymptotically biased estimators. Several methods have been proposed to eliminate, or at least to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003135841
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Modeling the Determinants of Meet-or-Just-Beat Behavior in Distribution Discontinuity Tests
Byzalov, Dmitri - 2019
We develop new distribution discontinuity tests conditional on multiple explanatory variables for analyzing meet-or-just-beat behavior around benchmarks. These tests combine Burgstahler and Dichev's (1997) meet-or-just-beat intuition with a flexible statistical model that addresses important...
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Theoretical Modeling of AIDS Infections and Disease Persistence
Mohamed, Issam A.W - 2012
We argue in this paper that it is more feasible to use binary variables and logistic regression analyses in the assessments of AIDS incidents o or other similar researches in social science. Thus, even in measuring disease persistence we can reach solid and comprehensive results. Statistical...
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In the Search of a Univariate Benchmark Model to Forecast the Unemployment Rate
Contreras, Javier - 2012
In this work the precision and stability of the forecasts of Chile's unemployment rates are analyzed. Said models were obtained by a family of SARIMA (Seasonal Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average) models, between February 1986 and February 2010. The SARIMA projections are compared with the...
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Striking features of the Portuguese labor market
Greene, William H.; Martins, Ana Paula - 2002
The present paper develops a simple asymmetrical informational model that allows us to understand the individual´s willingness to participate in a strike. We develop and compare two signaling models of strikes: in one, firms are able to monitor and enforce hours and offer different workweeks to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011512984
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When Do Covariates Matter? And Which Ones, and How Much?
Gelbach, Jonah B. - 2014
Authors often add covariates to a base model sequentially either to test a particular coefficient's “robustness” or to account for the “effects” on this coefficient of adding covariates. This is problematic, due to sequence-sensitivity when added covariates are intercorrelated. Using the...
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