Labor and product market regulations affect the unemployment rate of a country without doubt. Econometricians, however, have yet to establish an unequivocal significance of this impact. Model mis-specification, one of the main underlying problems, is overcome by adopting a Bayesian Model Averaging approach. I apply this method to a panel data set that covers 17 OECD countries for the time perio...

We present a new prior and corresponding algorithm for Bayesian analysis of the multinomial probit model. Our new approach places a prior directly on the identi"ed parameter space. The key is the speci"cation of a prior on the covariance matrix so that the (1,1) element if "xed at 1 and it is possible to draw from the posterior using standard distributions. Analytical results are derived which ...

This paper extends the panel threshold regression of Hansen (1999) and Kourtellos, Stengos and Tan (2007) to allow for endogeneity of the threshold variable. We consider the static linear panels with fixed effect. The modified concentrated two-stage least square methods that are based on inverse Mills ratio bias correction terms are proposed to estimate threshold parameters. Our estimators are ...

We investigate the use of various job search strategies and their impact on the probability of subsequent employment and the re-employment wage among working age men in Britain. We find that replying to advertisements and using Job Centres are the two most common methods of job search, and that job search intensity, and direct applications to employers in particular, result in a higher probabil...

Only 5.5 percent of black males married white females in 1990, and the family-income premium for intermarried black males was 7 percent. This paper estimates the impact of the mating taboo, courting opportunities, and individual endowments on the black male marriage market. Results indicate that eliminating the mating taboo would raise the intermarriage rate from 5.5 to 64 percent, and do away ...

هدف: RNA های غیرکدکننده از جمله مولکول تنظیم شناخته شده در سلول می باشند که فرایندهای مختلفی را کنترل کنند. مرتبط با مزبور، رشد و نمو تمایز سلولی باشد. این رو نقش آنها بروز تومور سرطان مختلف دست بررسی خصوص ارتباط مستقیمی بین ملکول مزبور دیده است. انواع غیر کد کننده ها، بلند (Long non-coding RNAs) باشند. گروه RNAها به‫عنوان کننده‌های کلیدی شده‫اند. ازجمله LncRNA MIAT یکRNA می‌باشد تقش انکوژنی آن...