Subsidised training and youth employment: Distinguishing unobserved heterogeneity from state dependence in labour market histories

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Magnac, T
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/1468-0297.00566
• 发表日期: 2000
• 页码: 805-837
• 关键词: search model; unemployment; TRANSITION; PROGRAMS; IMPACT; CHOICE; errors; BIAS; work; men

摘要

Using the 1990-2 wave of the French Labour Force Survey to study the employment histories of young people I consider transitions between six labour market states: employment contracts whether permanent or temporary, unemployment, training, education and non-participation. I use a fixed effect estimator in a dynamic multinomial logit model which can accommodate any form of unobserved heterogeneity in levels. This analysis can be extended to Markov processes of any order. I relate heterogeneity components to individual and family characteristics by using simulated maximum likelihood methods. These procedures allow evaluation of the effects training schemes have on youth employment histories.