%0 Report %A Fougère, Denis %A Kamionka, Thierry %T Econometrics of Individual Labor Market Transitions %D 2005 %8 2005 Nov %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) %C Bonn %7 IZA Discussion Paper %N 1850 %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp1850 %X This survey is devoted to the modelling and the estimation of reduced-form transition models, which have been extensively used and estimated in labor microeconometrics. The first section contains a general presentation of the statistical modelling of such processes using continuous-time (event-history) data. It also presents parametric and nonparametric estimation procedures, and focuses on the treatment of unobserved heterogeneity. The second section deals with the estimation of markovian processes using discrete-time panel observations. Here the main question is whether the discrete-time panel observation of a transition process is generated by a continuous-time homogeneous Markov process. After discussing this problem, we present maximum-likelihood and bayesian procedures for estimating the transition intensity matrix governing the process evolution. Particular attention is paid to the estimation of the continuous-time mover-stayer model, which is the more elementary model of mixed Markov chains. %K unobserved heterogeneity %K labor market transitions %K markovian processes %K mover-stayer model