This paper presents some empirical evidence on the French labor market focusing on transitions between stable jobs, temporary work, unemployment and non-participation. The model used is based on a Markov chain mixture which allows to distinguish labor market histories that are confined to...

This note derives the Colombo/Morrison ‘hard-core loyal/potential switcher' model without assuming the existence of either hard-core loyals or potential switchers. We only assume that the relative probability of buying a product other than what one purchased previously is independent of this...