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Rothe, Christoph - 2012

This paper proposes a decomposition of the composition effect, i.e. the part of the observed between-group difference in the distribution of some economic outcome that can be explained by differences in the distribution of covariates. Our decomposition contains three types of components: (i) the...

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Misspecification testing in a class of conditional distributional models

Rothe, Christoph; Wied, Dominik - 2012

model. The procedure is straightforward to implement, is consistent against fixed alternatives, has non-trivial power …

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The career costs of children

Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Stevens, Katrien - 2011

This paper analyzes the life-cycle career costs associated with child rearing and decomposes their effects into unearned wages (as women drop out of the labor market), loss of human capital, and selection into more child-friendly occupations. We estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of fertility,...

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The productivity advantages of large cities: Distinguishing agglomeration from firm selection

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - 2012

Firms are more productive on average in larger cities. Two main explanations have been offered: firm selection (larger cities toughen competition, allowing only the most productive to survive) and agglomeration economies (larger cities promote interactions that increase productivity), possibly...

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Testing weak cross-sectional dependence in large panels

Pesaran, Hashem - 2012

This paper considers testing the hypothesis that errors in a panel data model are weakly cross sectionally dependent, using the exponent of cross-sectional dependence α, introduced recently in Bailey, Kapetanios and Pesaran (2012). It is shown that the implicit null of the CD test depends on...

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Explaining the spread of temporary jobs and its impact on labor turnover

Cahuc, Pierre; Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck - 2012

This paper provides a simple model which explains the choice between permanent and temporary jobs. This model, which incorporates important features of actual employment protection legislations neglected by the economic literature so far, reproduces the main stylized facts about entries into...

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Pregibit: A family of discrete choice models

Vijverberg, Chu-ping C.; Vijverberg, Wim P. - 2012

The pregibit discrete choice model is built on a distribution that allows symmetry or asymmetry and thick tails, thin tails or no tails. Thus the model is much richer than the traditional models that are typically used to study behavior that generates discrete choice outcomes. Pregibit nests...

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Partial distributional policy effects

Rothe, Christoph - 2011

In this paper, we propose a method to evaluate the effect of a counterfactual change in the unconditional distribution of a single covariate on the unconditional distribution of an outcome variable of interest. Both fixed and infinitesimal changes are considered. We show that such effects are...

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A theory of political entrenchment

Saint-Paul, Gilles; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - 2012

We develop a theory of endogenous political entrenchment in a simple two-party dynamic model of income redistribution … income of its own constituency, the lower class, in order to consolidate its future political power. Such policies increase … in power. Finally, we show that, in a more general framework, the entrenchment policies can be implemented also by the …

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Transnational trafficking, law enforcement and victim protection: A middleman trafficker's perspective

Akee, Randall K. Q.; Bedi, Arjun S.; Basu, Arnab K.; … - 2011

, indicating considerable ease of mobility, partial bargaining power, and inelastic demand. …

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