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Engelhardt, Bryan - 2008

search and matching model of the labor market. All workers, irrespective of their labor force status can commit crimes and …

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Determination of the optimal number of strata for bias reduction in propensity score matching.

Akers, Allen - 2010

Previous research implementing stratification on the propensity score has generally relied on using five strata, based on prior theoretical groundwork and minimal empirical evidence as to the suitability of quintiles to adequately reduce bias in all cases and across all sample sizes. This study...

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Three Essays on Semiparametric Methods for the Evaluation of Social Programs.

Busso, Matias - 2008

properties of several semiparametric estimators of average treatment effects, including IPW, matching and double robust …

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Sequential Pre-Marital Investment Games: Implications for Unemployment

Boudreau, James W. - 2008

Agents on the same side of a two-sided matching market (such as the marriage or labor market) compete with each other … generally occur prior to matching, this activity has come to be known in recent literature (Peters, 2007) as pre … matching game in which one side of the market invests first, followed by the other. Interpreting the first group of agents as …

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14.661 Labor Economics I, Fall 2006

Pischke, Jorn-Steffen; Angrist, Joshua - 2006

Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply, labor demand, and human capital. Topics discussed also include wage and employment determination, turnover, search, immigration, unemployment, equalizing differences, and...

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Dual employment protection legislation : a framework for analysis

Dolado Lobregad, Juan José; Jansen, Marcel; Jimeno … - 2005

In many countries, Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) establishes different regulations for certain groups of workers who face more disadvantages in the labor market (young workers, women, unskilled workers, etc.) with the aim of improving their employability. Well-known examples are the...

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L’IMPACT DU CAPITAL HUMAIN SUR LA PRODUCTIVITE AGRICOLE AU BURKINA FASO

Theophile, Kabore - 2010

matching utilisé habituellement pour évaluer l’impact de politique sur une population donnée a été utilisée comme méthode d … Score Matching usually used to estimate the impact of social or economic policies on target groups. By the matching method …

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Changing wage structure and education in Vietnam 1993-1998: The roles of demand

Liu, Amy - 2005

This paper examines the changes in relative earnings of workers with different education levels during Vietnam’s transition. It is found that females enjoy a higher return to education than males do in 1998, reversing the situation observed five years ago. A large fall in the returns to...

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Changes in the wage structure in EU countries

Christopoulou, Rebekka; Jimeno Serrano, Juan F.; Lamo, Ana - 2010

We study changes in the wage structures in nine EU countries over 1995-2002 and the role of demand, supply and institutional developments in shaping these changes. Using comparable cross-country microeconomic data, we compute for each country and at each decile of the wage distribution, the part...

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Accounting for changes in the Spanish wage distribution : the role of employment composition

Carrasco, Raquel; Jimeno Serrano, Juan F.; Ortega, A. … - 2011

A pesar de una rápida disminución del desempleo, los salarios reales en España apenas aumentaron durante el periodo 1995-2006. Una posible explicación de este comportamiento se refiere a la importancia de los efectos composición derivados de algunos cambios estructurales, tales como el...

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