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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Labour Econ. 2018 Aug 13;54:116–134. doi: 10.1016/j.labeco.2018.08.001

Table 11:

Calibrated Parameters

Parameter Value Description
A. Outside the Model
β 0.996 Discount factor
bD 0.9μD Value of home production, disabled (90% of average productivity)
bND 0.75μND Value of home production, non-disabled (75% of average productivity)
𝜂 0.5 Nash-bargaining parameter of worker
B. Within the Model
κ 8.257 Vacancy-posting cost
γ 0.981 Elasticity of p (𝜃) w.r.t. market tightness θ
δ 0.006 Exogenous job destruction rate
𝜙D 0.013 Probability of redrawing productivity, disabled
𝜙ND 0.078 Probability of redrawing productivity, non-disabled
μD 1.000 Average productivity, disabled (normalization)
μND 1.923 Average productivity, non-disabled
σz2 0.231 Variance of productivity distribution
CF,D 12.963 Firing cost of the disabled under the ADA
CH,D 0.828 Hiring cost of the disabled under the ADA

Note: Table 11 reports the values of the calibrated parameters. Part A reports parameters calibrated a priori, and part B reports the parameters calibrated within the model jointly to match the benchmark economy (without policy) and the changes in the equilibrium transition rates between the benchmark economy and the economy under the ADA.