This paper examines the labour supply behaviour of married women in France. Estimating a model with tax parameter variation, careful re-examination of the treatment of the unearned income variable and taking account of education in moJelling preferences result in substantially lower elasticities than found in our previous empirical analysis. It turns out that distinguishing between part-time, f...

This paper analyzes the impact of the definition of part-time sick leave (PTSL) when analyzing the effect of PTSL on employees’ probability to fully recover lost work capacity. Using a random sample of 3,607 employees, we estimate an econometric model that aims to answer the hypothetical question of what happens to an employee who has lost his/her work capacity if he/she instead of continuing t...

We assess empirically the effects of the winner’s curse which, in common-value auctions, counsels more conservative bidding as the number of competitors increases. First, we construct an econometric model of an auction in which bidders’ preferences have both commonand private-value components, and propose a new monotone quantile approach which facilitates estimation of this model. Second, we es...

In this paper we endogenously group 311 U.S. cities by using dynamic clustering techniques. Then, we try to determine what the economic determinants of clustering are. In so doing, we use a spatial econometric model that disentangles the effect of intercity interactions operating through the input-output matrix from the effect of all others interactions. Preliminary incomplete version Do not ci...

This paper uses ordered response models of pensioners’ subjective evaluations of their ...nancial positions to construct equivalence scales for pensioners. A range of di¤erent ordered response models is used. The paper examines the sensitivity of the estimated scale to (a) the econometric model used and (b) the measurement of income. A pensioner couple is found to require on average 1.3 to 1.4 ...

this article presents a growth model consistent with economic situation of iran. various sectors of the economy are expressed by certain behavioral equations. the suggested model, is designed to incorporate findings of the leading theories of economic growth (harrod domar) models, lewis structural change theory, and the solow growth model. the model is calibrated using statistical data from ira...

This article is about estimation and inference methods for high dimensional sparse (HDS) regression models in econometrics. High dimensional sparse models arise in situations where many regressors (or series terms) are available and the regression function is wellapproximated by a parsimonious, yet unknown set of regressors. The latter condition makes it possible to estimate the entire regressi...

The following propositions are true: (1) Let X be a set, p be a permutation of X, and x, y be elements of X. Then p +· (x, p(y)) +· (y, p(x)) is a permutation of X. (2) Let f be a function and x, y be sets. Suppose x ∈ dom f and y ∈ dom f. Then there exists a permutation p of dom f such that f +· (x, f(y)) +· (y, f(x)) = f · p. Let X be a finite non empty subset of R. The functor minX yielding ...

The objective of this article is to investigate why farmers in Kosovo leave land fallow when the total land of their farms is small and households, almost fully dependent on farming for their livelihoods, are large. In order to elicit some of the barriers to land utilization, the article uses a comprehensive survey carried out during the agricultural year 2005/2006 to explore agricultural house...

Section II presents the empirical results of this study. While the underlying econometric model follows the standard ‘new growth’ literature procedure of regression analysis in a cross-section of countries, it goes beyond the existing studies in drawing on a data set including proxies for technical progress and educational attainment as well as devoting special attention to different levels of ...