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On the Specification of Mincerian Wage Regressions with Heterogeneity, Non-Linearity, Non-Separability, and Heteroskedasticity
Belzil, Christian - 2004
Using panel data taken from the NLSY, I perform the joint estimation of i) a reduced-form dynamic model of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261843
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Growth, volatility and political instability: non-linear time-series evidence for Argentina, 1896 - 2000
Campos, Nauro F.; Karanasos, Menelaos G. - 2007
What is the relationship between economic growth and its volatility? Does political instability affect growth directly … or indirectly, through volatility? This paper tries to answer such questions using a power-ARCH framework with annual … legislative changes) has an indirect (through volatility) negative impact. We also find preliminary support for the idea that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268236
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Uncertainty and the politics of employment protection
Vindigni, Andrea - 2008
This paper investigates the role that idiosyncratic uncertainty plays in shaping social preferences over the degree of labor market flexibility, in a general equilibrium model of dynamic labor demand where the productivity of firms evolves over time as a Geometric Brownian motion. A key result...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268688
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Random Coefficient Panel Data Models
Hsiao, Cheng; Pesaran, Mohammad Hashem - 2004
This paper provides a review of linear panel data models with slope heterogeneity, introduces various types of random coefficients models and suggest a common framework for dealing with them. It considers the fundamental issues of statistical inference of a random coefficients formulation using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276181
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On the Specification of Mincerian Wage Regressions with Heterogeneity, Non-Linearity, Non-Separability, and Heteroskedasticity
Belzil, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Using panel data taken from the NLSY, I perform the joint estimation of i) a reduced-form dynamic model of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763735
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Random Coefficient Panel Data Models
Hsiao, Cheng; Pesaran, M. Hashem - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper provides a review of linear panel data models with slope heterogeneity, introduces various types of random coefficients models and suggest a common framework for dealing with them. It considers the fundamental issues of statistical inference of a random coefficients formulation using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566372
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Flexibility at the margin and labor market volatility in OECD countries
Sala, Héctor; Silva, José Ignacio; Toledo, Manuel E. - 2008
achieve similar volatility than fully deregulated labor markets. Flexibility at the margin produces a gap in separation costs … de labor market volatility. This increased volatility is partially reverted when limitations in the duration and number … explain the similar volatility observed in many regulated OECD labor markets with flexibility at the margin vis-à-vis the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276682
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The economic security index: A new measure for research and policy analysis
Hacker, Jacob S.; Huber, Gregory Alain; Nichols, Austin; … - 2012
combining data from multiple surveys, we create an integrated measure of volatility in available household resources, accounting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289981
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The Matching Efficiency of Regional Labour Markets A Stochastic Production Frontier Estimation, France 1990-1995
Ibourk, Aomar; Maillard, Bénédicte; Perelman, Sergio; … - 2001
We evaluate the determinants of matching efficiency changes through a stochastic Cobb- Douglas production frontier model extended to allow the efficiency coefficient to depend on variables meant to capture workers and firms characteristics. We apply this methodology to examine regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262546
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Labor mobility across the formal/informal divide in Turkey: Evidence from individual level data
Tansel, Aysit; Öznur Kan, Elif - 2012
Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thus has been addressed in several theoretical and empirical research. Turkey, given its economic and demographic dynamics, provides rich evidence for a growing, heterogeneous and multifaceted informal labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282377