Frühwirth-Schnatter, Sylvia; Pittner, Stefan; Weber, Andrea and Winter-Ebmer, RudolfORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8157-6631
(October 2016)
Analysing Plant Closure Effects Using Time-Varying Mixture-of-Experts Markov Chain Clustering.
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In this paper, we study data on discrete labor market transitions from Austria. In particular, we follow the careers of workers who experience a job displacement due to plant closure and observe - over a period of forty quarters - whether these workers manage to return to a steady career path. To analyse these discrete-valued panel data, we develop and apply a new method of Bayesian Markov chain clustering analysis based on inhomogeneous first order Markov transition processes with time-varying transition matrices. In addition, a mixture-of-experts approach allows us to model the prior probability to belong to a certain cluster in dependence of a set of covariates via a multinomial logit model. Our cluster analysis identifies five career patterns after plant closure and reveals that some workers cope quite easily with a job loss whereas others suffer large losses over extended periods of time.
Item Type: | IHS Series |
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Keywords: | Transition data, Markov Chain Monte Carlo, Multinomial Logit, Panel data, Inhomogeneous Markov chains |
Research Units: | Former Research Units (until 2020) > Labor Market and Social Policy |
Date Deposited: | 05 Oct 2016 12:55 |
Last Modified: | 04 Jun 2023 06:00 |
ISSN: | 1605-7996 |
URI: | https://irihs.ihs.ac.at/id/eprint/4078 |
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