Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/33214 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1850
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This survey is devoted to the modelling and the estimation of reduced-form transition models, which have been extensively used and estimated in labor microeconometrics. The first section contains a general presentation of the statistical modelling of such processes using continuous-time (event-history) data. It also presents parametric and nonparametric estimation procedures, and focuses on the treatment of unobserved heterogeneity. The second section deals with the estimation of markovian processes using discrete-time panel observations. Here the main question is whether the discrete-time panel observation of a transition process is generated by a continuous-time homogeneous Markov process. After discussing this problem, we present maximum-likelihood and bayesian procedures for estimating the transition intensity matrix governing the process evolution. Particular attention is paid to the estimation of the continuous-time mover-stayer model, which is the more elementary model of mixed Markov chains.
Subjects: 
labor market transitions
markovian processes
mover-stayer model
unobserved heterogeneity
JEL: 
C41
C51
J64
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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