infonet-economy

Over the last twenty years, many researchers have attempted to explain the determinants of wage inequality. I propose a flexible, intuitive and semiparametric estimator of distribution functions in the presence of covariates. The conditional wage distribution is estimated by quantile regressions. Then, the conditional distribution is integrated over the range of the covariates to...

We report survey and experimental evidence on trust and voluntary cooperation from more than 630 non-student and student participants in rural and urban Russia. Our subjects have a diverse socioeconomic background that we relate to the answers of a survey on trust attitudes and to contribution behavior in a one-shot public goods game. We find that the socio-economic background...

Administrative data of the unemployment insurance system in Switzerland have been made available by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (seco) for specific research purposes. They contain rich information about unemployed and job seekers. The records are linked to social security data. The combination of the two sources leads to a very rich database. This paper describes...

We propose four different GMM estimators that allow almost consistent estimation of the structural parameters of panel probit models with fixed effects for the case of small T and large N. The moments used are derived for each period from a first order approximation of the mean of the dependent variable conditional on explanatory variables and on the fixed effect. The estimators...

Allocating people into social programmes on the basis of statistical tools has gained increasing acceptance in recent years. The need for better targeting of active labour market programmes recently has arisen in Switzerland, too. Statistically assisted programme allocation could be an effective tool to increase the effectiveness of labour market policies. It is a software tool that...

In the second part of the 1990's Switzerland conducted an ambitious active labour market policy (ALMP) encompassing a wide variety of programmes. We evaluate the effects of these programmes on the individual employment probability of potential participants. Our econometric analysis uses unusually informative data origi-nating from administrative unemployment and social security...

Heutzutage betreiben viele europäische Länder neben einer passiven Einkommensabsicherung der Arbeitslosen auch eine substantielle aktive Arbeitsmarktpolitik (Fortbildungskurse, Beschäftigungsprogramme, etc.), um deren Wiederbeschäftigung zu beschleunigen. Dieses Papier entwickelt in groben Zügen die Vision einer gezielten wirkungsorientierten aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik, wie sie in...

Paneldaten gewinnen als Datenmaterial für empirische Studien im Bereich der Wirtschaftswissenschaften, sowie auch in vielen anderen empirisch ausgerichteten Forschungsfeldern, eine immer grössere Bedeutung. Das Papier gibt einen nichttechnischen Überblick über in der ökonometrischen Paneldatenanalyse populäre lineare und nichtlineare Modelle und diskutiert die Annahmen, unter denen...

This paper approaches the problem of an econometric evaluation of dynamic programme sequences from an potential outcome perspective. The identifying power of several different assumptions about the connection between the dynamic selection process and the potential outcomes of different programme sequences is discussed. The assumptions invoke different types of randomisation...