jabber: otoomet (a) jabber.dk

CV (in pdf form)

Papers, Finally Published

• Leping & Toomet (2008) Emerging ethnic wage gap: Estonia during political and economic transition Journal of Comparative Economics 36(4), 599-619
• Henningsen & Toomet (2008) Sample selection models in R: package micEcon Journal of Statistical Software 27(7)

Work in Progress

• Rolfe, van der Leij, Toomet On the Relationship Between Unexplained Wage Gap and Social Network Connections for Ethnic Groups
• Toomet (2008) Threat Effect of the Labour Market Programs in Denmark: Evidence From a Quasi-Experiment The University of Tartu Faculty of Economics and Business Administration Working Paper No. 62.
• Rosholm & Toomet A search model of discouragement IZA Discussion Paper 1633 (2005).
• Toomet (2005) Does an increase in unemployment income lead to longer unemployment spells? Evidence using Danish unemployment assistance data Aarhus University, working paper 2005-7
• Toomet (2005) Regional Variations in Unemployment Duration and Discouragement Probabilities

Teaching

• TU Economics seminars 2008 – organized by me

Miscellaneous

• My page at SSRN
• Wage and unemployment data. Data for regional average wages by quarters (1993-1999) and registered unemployment (1996-1999).
• Estonian population, population in Estonia, in rural and urban areas and in Tallinn (1881-2000, yearly 1950-2000).
• savetable (3kB) -- R package which allows to save large dataframes in ASCII format. Similar to write.table() but much faster and memory efficient for large dataframes. More information about R can be found at R homepage

  This package is obsolete since R 2.1.0. That version of R has similar functionality built-in.

• maxLik – An R package for Maximum Likelihood estimation
• sampleSelection – Implementation of Heckman selection models for R
• Map of Denmark (11 kB), an add-on to the package maps by Ray Brownrigg (available at ftp://ftp.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/pub/statistics/map). It includes a low-resolution (and pretty imprecise) map of Danish counties. However, it is well suited for presenting numeric data.
• gauss-mode.el (5kB) -- emacs mode for editing gauss programs. A hack of different hacks, the previous one by Neel Krishnaswami in 1999. Supports full syntax coloring and indents the programs pretty well. Indentation of multy-line @..@ comments is not supported.

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