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US unemployment duration : has long become longer or short become shorter?

Machado, José A. F. (contributor); … - 2006

The U.S. labor market has been experiencing unprecedented high average unemployment duration. The shift in the … unemployment duration distribution can be traced back to the early nineties. In this study, censored quantile regression methods … are employed to analyze the changes in the US unemployment duration distribution. We explore the decomposition method …

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U.S. Unemployment Duration : Has Long Become Longer or Short Become Shorter?

Machado, José A. F.; Portugal, Pedro; Guimaraes, Juliana - 2021

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Vouchers in US vocational training programs : an overview of what we have learned

Barnow, Burt S. - In: Journal for labour market research 42 (2009/10) 1, pp. 71-84

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Robust Non-Parametric Quantile Estimation of Efficiency and Productivity Change in U.S. Commercial Banking, 1985-2004

Wheelock, David C.; Wilson, Paul W. - 2007

This paper describes a non-parametric, unconditional, hyperbolic quantile estimator that unlike traditional non-parametric frontier estimators is both robust to data outliers and has a root-n convergence rate. We use this estimator to examine changes in the efficiency and productivity of U.S....

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Estimating distributions of potential outcomes using local instrumental variables with an application to changes in college enrollment and wage inequality

Carneiro, Pedro; Lee, Sokbae - 2009

This paper extends the method of local instrumental variables developed by Heckman and Vytlacil (1999, 2001, 2005) to the estimation of not only means, but also distributions of potential outcomes. The newly developed method is illustrated by applying it to changes in college enrollment and wage...

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The early history of program evaluation and the US Department of Labor

Ashenfelter, Orley - 2014

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Bounds on average and quantile treatment effects of job corps training on wages

Blanco, German; Flores, Carlos; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso - 2011

We assess the effectiveness of Job Corps (JC), the largest job training program targeting disadvantaged youth in the United States, by constructing nonparametric bounds for the average and quantile treatment effects of the program on wages. Our preferred estimates point toward convincing...

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Lee Bounds With Multilayered Sample Selection

Kroft, Kory; Mourifié, Ismael; Vayalinkal, Atom - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper investigates the causal effect of job training on wage rates in the presence of firm heterogeneity. When training affects worker sorting to firms, sample selection is no longer binary but is "multilayered". This paper extends the canonical Heckman (1979) sample selection model - which...

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The Impact of Education on Unemployment Incidence and Re-Employment Success : Evidence from the U.S. Labour Market

Riddell, W. Craig - 2011

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The impact of education on unemployment incidence and re-employment success : evidence from the US labour market

Riddell, William Craig; Song, Xueda - 2011

This study investigates the causal effects of education on individuals' transitions between employment and unemployment … 16 years of schooling. Evidence on the impact of formal schooling on unemployment incidence is mixed. -- education … ; labour market transitions ; unemployment ; causal effects ; compulsory schooling laws ; child labour laws ; Vietnam War draft …

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