Winkelmann

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Completed research project

Title / Titel	Self-selection models for public and private sector job satisfaction
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Summary / Zusammenfassung	We develop a class of copula-based ordered probit models with endogenous switching. Such models can be useful for the analysis of self-selection in subjective well-being equations in general, and job satisfaction in particular, where assignment of regressors may be endogenous rather than random, resulting from individual maximization of well-being. In an application to public and private sector job satisfaction, and using data on male workers from the German Socio-Economic Panel for 2004, and using two alternative copula functions for dependence, we find consistent evidence for endogenous sector selection.
Project leadership and contacts / Projektleitung und Kontakte	Prof. Dr. Rainer Winkelmann (Project Leader) winkelmann@sts.uzh.ch
Funding source(s) / Unterstützt durch	Universität Zürich (position pursuing an academic career)
In collaboration with / In Zusammenarbeit mit	Alois Stutzer, Department of Economics, Univ. Basel Switzerland Simon Luechinger, LSE United Kingdom
Duration of Project / Projektdauer	Jan 2007 to Jun 2009