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Unemployment duration, job search and labour market segmentation.  Evidence from urban Ethiopia
Serneels, Pieter - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008
Although it is a common theoretical assumption that the chances to find a job fall with time in unmeployment, this is not systematically confirmed by empirical evidence, and there is no evidence for developing countries.  We develop a farmework that allows us to test the four major explanations...
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Explaining Non-Negative Duration Dependence Among the Unemployed
Serneels, Pieter - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2002
We investigate why we observe non-negative duration dependence among young unemployed men in urban Ethiopia. Assuming that genuine duration dependence is negative, there are five explanations for a non-decreasing hazard: the presence of unemployment benefits, the existence of Active Labour...
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An Emprirical Study of Unemployment Benefit Preferences.
Di Tella, R.; MacCulloch, R. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1996
We study the role of preferences in the process of unemployment benefit determination. Perhaps surprisingly, survey evidence for the UK suggests that both the employed and unemployed wish to see a more generous level of unemployment benefits.
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The Determination of Unemployment Benefits.
Di Tella, R.; MacCulloch, R. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1996
We present a simple model where unemployment benefits are determined in an economy in which there is endogenous delay in finding a job so that workers desire insurance against the possibility of unemployment.
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On-the-Job Search and the Beveridge Curve.
Fluentes, A. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051058
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Migration, Remittances and Public Transfers: Evidence from South Africa
Sienaert, Alex - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007
What drives migration and remittance behaviour in South Africa, and what are the implications for public policy? This … longitudinal data spanning 1993 to 2004 from KwaZula-Natal province. Findings generally accord with expectations if migration is a … receipt of public transfer income raises the likelihood of migration (most likely because migration is costly and households …
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Chinese Peasant Choices : Farming, Rural Industry or Migration.
Knight, J; Song, L - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1997
farming, local non-farming and temporary migration activites. The returns to non-farming greatly exceed those to farming, for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005047836
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How Housing Slumps End
O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; Benetrix, Augustin S.; … - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2011
We construct a simple probit model of the determinants of real house price slump endings.  We find that the probability of a house price slump ending is higher, the smaller was the pre-slump house price run-up; the greater has been the cumualtive house price decline; the lower are real mortgage...
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Separating the impact of macroeconomic variables and global frailty in event data
Wolter, James - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2013
Global frailty is an unobserved macroeconomic variable.  In event data contexts, this unobserved variable is assumed to impact the hazard rate of event arrivals.  Attempts to identify and estimate the path of frailty are complicated when observed macroeconomic variables also impact hazard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004346
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Semiparametric autoregressive conditional proportional hazard models
Gerhard, Frank; Hautsch, Nikolaus - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2001
A new semiparametric proportional hazard rate model is proposed which extends standard models to include a dynamic specification. Two main problems are resolved in the course of this paper. First, the partial likelihood approach to estimate the components of a standard proportional hazard model...
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