Search Results - subject:"Matching Models"

A Note on Adapting Propensity Score Matching and Selection Models to Choice Based Samples

Heckman, James J.; Todd, Petra E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

The probability of selection into treatment plays an important role in matching and selection models. However, this probability can often not be consistently estimated, because of choice-based sampling designs with unknown sampling weights. This note establishes that the selection and matching...

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Spillover effects of minimum wages in a two-sector search model

Moser, Christoph; Stähler, Nikolai - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2009

Labor market studies on the effects of minimum wages are typically confined to the sector or worker group directly affected. We present a two-sector search model in which one sector is more productive than the other one and thus, pays higher wages. In such a framework, setting a minimum wage in...

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Does the Hartz IV Reform have an Effect on Matching Efficiency in Germany? A Stochastic Frontier Approach

Hillmann, Katja - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

In the course of a comprehensive labor market reform started in 2002 and finished through the implementation of the most radical measure Hartz IV in 2005, I exploit its impact on matching processes in Germany. I use disaggregated data for 178 local employment agencies to examine the effects of...

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Estimating the housing price with a search-and-matching model

Lisi, Gaetano; Iacobini, Mauro - In: Journal of European Real Estate Research 8 (2015) 2, pp. 196-216

Purpose – This paper aims to pose an important starting point for the application of the search-and-matching models to … relationship between house price and market tightness (a common feature only for the labour market matching models). The … determined. Unlike most of the search-and-matching models in the housing literature, the out-of-the steady-state dynamics are …

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Brief Remark on ”Job creation, Job destruction and Growth...”

Lisi, Gaetano - In: Economic Research Guardian 5 (2015) 1, pp. 2-4

This very brief note improves the paper by Lisi (2012) by removing from the model an unrealistic feature.

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A matching model of endogenous growth and underground firms

Lisi, Gaetano; Pugno, Maurizio - In: International journal of economic theory 11 (2015) 4, pp. 347-369

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Do unemployment benefits promote or hinder structural change?

Boeri, Tito; Macis, Mario - 2008

consistent with equilibrium matching models with or without endogenous sorting of workers into jobs providing entitlement to UBs …

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Employment protection and temporary work agencies

Baumann, Florian; Mechtel, Mario; Stähler, Nikolai - 2008

Employers who use temporary agency staff in contrast to regular staff are not affected by employment protection regulations when terminating a job. Therefore, services provided by temporary work agencies may be seen as a substitute for regular employment. In this paper, we analyze the effects of...

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Do labor market conditions affect the strictness of employment protection legislation?

Tilli, Riccardo; Saltari, Enrico - In: Economics Bulletin 10 (2008) 4, pp. 1-9

We provide a theoretical microfoundation for the negative relationship between firing costs and labor market tightness and its effects on labor market performance. The optimal level of firing costs is chosen by the employed worker i.e. the insider by maximizing her human capital. Performing a...

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Employment protection and temporary work agencies

Baumann, Florian; Mechtel, Mario; Stähler, Nikolai - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2008

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