Search Results - subject:"quantile regression"

Learning by Exporting: Does It Matter Where One Learns? Evidence from Colombian Manufacturing Plants

Trofimenko, Natalia - 2005

Learning-by-exporting proponents argue that exporting increases productivity by exposing producers to new technologies or through product quality upgrading. This study is based on the observation that the technological superiority and severity of product quality requirements are not the same in...

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Wage ceilings and floors: the gender gap in Ukraine's transition

Ganguli, Ina; Terrell, Katherine - 2005

This paper uses new micro data from the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) to examine the gender gaps across the distribution of wages in Ukraine during communism (1986), the start of transition (1991), and after Ukraine started to be considered a market economy (2003). We find that...

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Educational qualifications and wage inequality: evidence for Europe

Budría, Santiago; Pereira, Pedro Telhado - 2005

quantile regression technique to calculate returns to lower secondary, upper secondary and tertiary education at different …

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The gender gap reloaded: is school quality linked to labor market performance?

Konstantopoulos, Spyros; Constant, Amelie F. - 2005

the tails of the wage distribution using quantile regression. We also examine the importance of school quality indicators …

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Intergenerational Mobility : Trends Across the Earnings Distribution

Bratberg, Espen; Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Vaage, Kjell - 2005

earnings mobility is high. Using quantile regression, mobility is found to be lower at the lower end of the earnings …

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Agglomeration, Spatial Interaction and Convergence in the EU

Bräuninger, Michael; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2005

We investigate the convergence process among EU regions between 1980-2002 taking into account the effects of spatial heterogeneity and spatial spillover effects. The spatial regimes model allows for different steady-state growth paths. In contrast to previous analyses, the regimes in this paper...

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Using Quantile Regression for Duration Analysis

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2005

Quantile regression methods are emerging as a popular technique in econometrics and biometrics for exploring the … distribution of duration data. This paper discusses quantile regression for duration analysis allowing for a flexible specification … of the functional relationship and of the error distribution. Censored quantile regression address the issue of right …

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Censored Quantile Regressions and the Length of Unemployment Periods in West Germany

Xuan, Zhang; Wilke, Ralf A.; Lüdemann, Elke - 2005

In this paper, we estimate the effect of different macro and micro variables on thedistribution of unemployment duration in West Germany using censored quantile regressions. We analyze unemployment periods of more than 91,000 observations from the years 1981 to 1997 drawn from the IAB employment...

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A Note on Implementing Box-Cox Quantile Regression

Wilke, Ralf A.; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Zhang, Xuan - 2005

The Box-Cox quantile regression model using the two stage method suggested by Chamberlain (1994) and Buchinsky (1995 …) provides a flexible and numerically attractive extension of linear quantile regression techniques. However, the objective …

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Wage Ceilings and Floors: The Gender Gap in Ukraine’s Transition

Ganguli, Ina; Terrell, Katherine - 2005

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