Are low wages an instrument for the unemployed to switch to high-paying jobs within a medium-term period? Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), the labor market dynamics of men are analyzed up to six years after entering unemployment. An alternative econometric approach is...

The bivariate random effects model has been advocated for the meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy despite scarce information regarding its statistical performance for non-comparative categorical outcomes. Four staggered simulation experiments using a full-factorial design were conducted to...

The goal of meta-analysis is to provide a full and comprehensive summary of related studies which have addressed a similar question. A joint analysis of survival probabilities reported at a predetermined set of time points for a number of published studies is presented by employing three...