Women are, on average, more often absent from work for health reasons than men, but live longer. This conflicting pattern suggests that the gender absenteeism gap arises partly...

We find that the empirical results reported in Chang (Journal of Applied Econometrics 2011; 26(5): 854-871) are contingent on the specification of the model. The use of...

In this paper a computationally practical simulation estimator is proposed for the two-tiered dynamic panel Tobit model originally developed by Cragg (1971). The log-likelihood...