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Frijters, Paul; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2004

these transitions allows the identification of duration dependence in the job offer arrival rate and the wage offer … likelihood. The results show that the presence of significant negative duration dependence in the wage offer distribution causes … reservation wages to decrease. The rate at which job offers arrive is constant over the unemployment duration. These findings …

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Internet Job Search and Unemployment Durations

Kuhn, Peter; Skuterud, Mikal - 2002

negatively selected on unobservables. A beneficial (unemployment-duration reducing) causal effect of internet job search is …

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A good time to stay out? Strikes and the business cycle

Devereux, Paul J.; Hart, Robert A. - 2008

In this paper, we compile a unique historical dataset that records strike activity in the British engineering industry from 1920 to 1970. These data have the advantage of containing a fairly homogenous set of companies and workers, covering a long period with varying labour market conditions,...

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Immigration and housing booms: evidence from Spain

González Luna, Libertad; Ortega, Francesc - 2009

We estimate empirically the effect of immigration on house prices and residential construction activity in Spain over the period 1998-2008. This decade is characterized by both a spectacular housing market boom and a stunning immigration wave. We exploit the variation in immigration across...

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Maximum likelihood estimation and lagrange multiplier tests for panel seemingly unrelated regressions with spatial lag and spatial errors: An application to hedonic housing prices in Paris

Baltagi, Badi H.; Bresson, Georges - 2010

This paper proposes maximum likelihood estimators for panel seemingly unrelated regressions with both spatial lag and spatial error components. We study the general case where spatial effects are incorporated via spatial errors terms and via a spatial lag dependent variable and where the...

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Partial identification of willingness-to-pay using shape restrictions with an application to the value of a statistical life

Sojourner, Aaron J. - 2010

Economists often analyze cross-sectional data to estimate the value people implicit place on attributes of goods using hedonic methods. Usually strong enough assumptions are made on the functional form of utility to point identify individuals' willingness-to-pay (WTP) for changes in attribute...

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Hedonic wage equilibrium: Theory, evidence and policy

Kniesner, Thomas J.; Leeth, John D. - 2010

We examine theoretically and empirically the properties of the equilibrium wage function and its implications for policy. Our emphasis is on how the researcher approaches economic and policy questions when there is labor market heterogeneity leading to a set of wages. We focus on the application...

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Sorting on skills and preferences: Tinbergen meets Sattinger

Dupuy, Arnaud - 2010

This paper proposes an assignment model where sorting occurs on attributes including both skills (Sattinger, 1979) and preferences (Tinbergen, 1956). The key feature of this model is that the wage function admits both jobs' and workers' attributes as arguments. Since this function is generically...

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Causal Effects on Employment after First Birth: A Dynamic Treatment Approach

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin; Steffes, Susanne - 2013

The effects of childbirth on future labor market outcomes are a key issue for policy discussion. This paper implements a dynamic treatment approach to estimate the effect of having the first child now versus later on future employment for the case of Germany, a country with a long maternity...

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Do Extended Unemployment Benefits Lengthen Unemployment Spells? Evidence from Recent Cycles in the U.S. Labor Market

Farber, Henry S.; Valletta, Robert G. - 2013

extensions across states to estimate the overall impact of these extensions on unemployment duration, comparing the experience … extensions on unemployment transitions and duration. We rely on individual variation in benefit availability based on the … duration of unemployment spells and the length of UI benefits available in the state and month, conditional on state economic …

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