Agriculture: Transition Buffer or Black Hole? A Three-State Model of Employment Dynamics

48 Pages Posted: 7 Feb 2003

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Alexandru Voicu

City University of New York (CUNY) - College of Staten Island; IZA Institute of Labor Economics

Date Written: December 2002

Abstract

We analyze the effect of land reform legislation on labor market dynamics in the Romanian economy. We show that the agricultural sector, a source of precarious employment, has become an absorbing state for certain categories of workers who lost their jobs in the nonagricultural sector. A random utility model is used to represent individuals' sequential labor market decisions. The resulting multivariate probit model is estimated using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods.

Keywords: Labor Force Participation, Three-state Dynamic Model, Multivariate Probit, Markov Chain Monte Carlo, Transition Economy, Land Reform

JEL Classification: C11, C15, C33, C35, J23

Suggested Citation

Voicu, Alexandru, Agriculture: Transition Buffer or Black Hole? A Three-State Model of Employment Dynamics (December 2002). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=372482 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.372482

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