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Regular Variation and the Identification of Generalized Accelerated Failure-Time Models

Abbring, Jaap H.; Ridder, Geert - 2011

Ridder (1990) provides an identification result for the Generalized Accelerated Failure-Time (GAFT) model. We point out that Ridder's proof of this result is incomplete, and provide an amended proof with an additional necessary and sufficient condition that requires that a function varies...

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College Education and Wages in the U.K : Estimating Conditional Average Structural Functions in Nonadditive Models with Binary Endogenous Variables

Klein, Tobias J. - 2009

Recent studies debate how the unobserved dependence between the monetary return to college education and selection into … average higher for college graduates and positively related to selection into college for 96 percent of the individuals. The … dependence between selection into college and returns to college education is strongest for individuals with low math test scores …

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Seek and Ye Shall Find : How Search Requirements Affect Job Finding Rates of Older Workers

Hullegie, Patrick; Ours, Jan C. van - 2013

Unemployment insurance recipients in the Netherlands were for a long time exempted from the requirement to actively search for a job when they reached the age of 57.5. We study how this exemption affected the job finding rates of the recipients involved. We find evidence that the job finding...

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Cannabis Decriminalization and the Age of Onset of Cannabis Use

Cerveny, Jakub; Chomynova, Pavla; Mravcik, Viktor; … - 2015

This paper examines the effect of a change in drugs policy on the age of onset of cannabis use. We use 2012 survey data from the Czech Republic where in 2010 a law was introduced decriminalizing personal possession of small quantities of several illicit drugs, including cannabis. We estimate the...

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New Job Matches and Their Stability Before and During the Crisis

Nagore Garcia, Amparo - 2017

Using administrative data from the Spanish Social Security Administration, we analyse the nature and stability of job matches starting during the economic boom in 2005 and during the recession in 2009. We compare the individual, job and firm characteristics in the two samples and estimate a...

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Are Short-Lived Jobs Stepping Stones to Long-Lasting Jobs?

Cockx, Bart - 2010

This paper assesses whether short-lived jobs (lasting one quarter or less and involuntarily ending in unemployment) are stepping stones to long-lasting jobs (enduring one year or more) for Belgian long-term unemployed school-leavers. We proceed in two steps. First, we estimate labour market...

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The Determinants of VAT Introduction : A Spatial Duration Analysis

Cizek, Pavel - 2012

The spatial survival models typically impose frailties, which characterize unobserved heterogeneity, to be spatially correlated. This specification relies highly on a predeterminate covariance structure of the errors. However, the spatial effect may not only exist in the unobserved errors, but...

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Offshoring and Job Stability : Evidence From Italian Manufacturing

Lo Turco, Alessia - 2012

We study the relationship between offshoring and job stability in Italy in the period 1995-2001 by using an administrative dataset on manufacturing workers. We find that the international fragmentation of production negatively affects job stability. Service offshoring and material purchases from...

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The Gender Wage Gap by Education in Italy

Mussida, Chiara - 2012

wage distributions in the presence of covariates and sample selection separately for highly and low educated men and women … control for sample selection induced by unobservables, the penalties for low educated women become even larger, above all at …

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Gender Wage Gap : A Semi-Parametric Approach with Sample Selection Correction

Picchio, Matteo - 2010

Sizeable gender differences in employment rates are observed in many countries. Sample selection into the workforce … densities in the presence of covariates which incorporates sample selection. We describe a simulation algorithm to implement … that when sample selection is taken into account gender wage gap widens, especially at the bottom of the wage distribution …

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