This paper aims to study whether a simple asymetric adjustment costs model with heterogeneity can account for French aggregate job flows.

This paper complements the results of Hausman and Taylor (1981) and Cornewell, Schmidt and Sickles (1990) and generalizes Park and Simar (1994) by examining the semiparametric efficient estimation of panel models in which the random effects and the regressors have certain patterns of correlation.

Efficiency scores of production units are measured by their distance to an estimated production forntier. Nonparametric DEA estimators are based on a finit sample of observed production units and radial distances are considered. We investigate the consistency and the speed of convergence of...

While stochastic dominance has been employed in various forms, it has been (since 1969-1970) developed and extensively employed in the area of economics, finance and operations research. In this study the first, second and third order stochastic dominance rules are discussed for ranking...

Recent works on aggregate job flows in the US economy indicate that (i) specific sectoral shocks are important to account for aggregate job flows dynamics and that (ii) aggregate creation and destruction dynamics display significant non-linearities. This paper aims to study whether a simple...