Insurance within the firm



B Appendix: Covariance estimation

For each firm in the sample we obtain a consistent estimate of ∆εjγ as the residual from
the IV regression (8). For an unbalanced sample of firms observed for at most
T periods,

define the vector:


εJ =


( ∆εjτ
tejT-i

...

δ¾1

If the ∆εjt observation is missing, it is replaced by zero. Conformably with ε1■, define
with
dj a vector of 0-1 dummy variables. The dummy is 0 if the observation for ∆εjt is
missing, 1 otherwise. All the autocovariances of the type
E (∆εja∆εj) are consistently
estimated by the sample analogs collected in the following autocovariance matrix:

F          F

c = £ - ε1-./∑ dd

J=I           j=l

where F is the number of firms always present in the data set and ./ denotes an element-
by-element division.

Define with m the vector of all the distinct elements of C, i.e. m = vech (C). Since C
is a symmetric matrix, the number of distinct elements in it is ʃ(ʃ+1). Conformably with
m, define mj = vech ( ε1 ε',j), and D =vech ^∑j=ι djdj). The standard errors of the
ɪɪɪɪɪ autocovariances can be retrieved by the variance-covariance matrix of
C, i.e.:

M

v = [(m - m) (m - m)z. * dιdj] ./dD
J=I

The standard errors of the estimated moments are simply the square roots of the ele-
ments in the main diagonal of
V. A similar strategy is used to obtain an estimate of V
(and corresponding standard errors) for workers’ earnings.

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