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On the Estimation of Labour Force Participation, Job Search, and Job Matching Models Using Panel Data

In: Advances in the Theory and Measurement of Unemployment

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  • Zvi Eckstein
  • Kenneth I. Wolpin

Abstract

In this chapter we present a class of discrete-time structural models of labour force dynamics which are estimable using the same methodology. There have been a number of such models discussed in the literature, but only a very few have been estimated in their structural form. Although the models are categorized as either fitting into labour force participation, job search, or job matching frameworks, they all share in common the reservation wage property, namely that there is a change in state only when the random wage draw moves above or below a threshold value. They key to estimation is the numerical solution of the dynamic programming problem for the reservation wage path. In the finite horizon case considered here reservation wages are time varying and all of the economic theory is contained in the restrictions on the shape of the reservation wage path; only a few parameters fully describe the entire path, although not generally in closed form. The likelihood function based on observed labour force states is also a function of the reservation wage path. Thus, the parameters which determine the reservation wage path can be estimated by iterating between the dynamic programming solution and the likelihood function.

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  • Zvi Eckstein & Kenneth I. Wolpin, 1990. "On the Estimation of Labour Force Participation, Job Search, and Job Matching Models Using Panel Data," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Yoram Weiss & Gideon Fishelson (ed.), Advances in the Theory and Measurement of Unemployment, chapter 4, pages 82-112, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-10688-2_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-10688-2_4
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    Cited by:

    1. Thierry Kamionka & Cyriaque Edon, 2007. "Modélisation dynamique de la participation au marché du travail des femmes en couple," Annals of Economics and Statistics, GENES, issue 86, pages 77-108.
    2. Tito Boeri & Agar Brugiavini, 2008. "Pension Reforms and Women Retirement Plans," Working Papers 2008_35, Department of Economics, University of Venice "Ca' Foscari".
    3. Sebastian Galiani & Juan Pantano, 2021. "Structural Models: Inception and Frontier," NBER Working Papers 28698, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    4. Islam, Nizamul, 2005. "Dynamic labour force participation of married women in Sweden," Working Papers in Economics 184, University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics, revised 10 Jul 2007.
    5. Bachmann, Andreas & Boes, Stefan, 2014. "Private transfers and college students’ decision to work," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 42(C), pages 34-42.

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