@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp676, author={Voicu, Alexandru}, title={Agriculture: Transition Buffer or Black Hole? A Three-State Model of Employment Dynamics}, year={2002}, month={Dec}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={676}, url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp676}, abstract={We analyze the effect of land reform legislation on labor market dynamics in the Romanian economy. We show that the agricultural sector, a source of precarious employment, has become an absorbing state for certain categories of workers who lost their jobs in the nonagricultural sector. A random utility model is used to represent individuals’ sequential labor market decisions. The resulting multivariate probit model is estimated using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods.}, keywords={labor force participation;three-state dynamic model;multivariate probit;Markov chain Monte Carlo;transition economy;land reform}, }