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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
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317551
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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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Extracting business cycles using semi-parametric time-varying spectra with applications to US macroeconomic time series
Koopman, Siem Jan; Wong, Soon Yip - 2006
A growing number of empirical studies provides evidence that dynamic properties of macroeconomic time series have been changing over time. Model-based procedures for the measurement of business cycles should therefore allow model parameters to adapt over time. In this paper the time dependencies...
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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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Transition with heterogeneous labor
Balla, Katalin (contributor); Köllő, János (contributor);  … - 2006
rate of job destruction is sufficiently low, the unemployment rates can get close to steady-state values during the … transition. Within the realm of feasible scenarios, unemployment differentials are simultaneously determined by the speed of … destruction is fast and benefits are high. -- transition ; heterogeneous labor ; job creation ; unemployment benefit ; wage …
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