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Comment on ‘the dynamics of job separation: The case of federal employees’
Author(s) -
Gotz Glenn A.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
journal of applied econometrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.878
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 1099-1255
pISSN - 0883-7252
DOI - 10.1002/jae.3950050305
Subject(s) - separation (statistics) , dynamics (music) , computer science , operations research , econometrics , mathematical economics , economics , mathematics , psychology , machine learning , pedagogy
This paper recasts the model presented in ‘The Dynamics of Job Separation: The Case of Federal Employees’, as an optimal stopping problem. It shows that the individuals represented by the model are assumed to behave suboptimally and illustrates several policy analysis problems introduced by assuming such behaviour.