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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
3682 Kristian Behrens
Giordano Mion
Yasusada Murata
Jens Suedekum
Trade, Wages, and Productivity
We develop a new general equilibrium model of trade with heterogeneous firms, variable demand elasticities and endogenously determined wages. Trade integration favors wage convergence, intensifies ...
(substantially revised version published in: International Economic Review, 2014, 55 (4), 1305-1348. [Final version])
F12, F15, F17
3681 Christian Merkl
Dennis J. Snower
Escaping the Unemployment Trap: The Case of East Germany
This paper addresses the question of why high unemployment rates tend to persist even after their proximate causes have been reversed (e.g., after wages relative to productivity have fallen). We ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2008, 36 (4), 542-556)
E24, J30, J31, J64
3680 Philippe Aghion
Yann Algan
Pierre Cahuc
Can Policy Interact with Culture? Minimum Wage and the Quality of Labor Relations
Can public policy interfere with culture, such as beliefs and norms of cooperation? We investigate his question by evaluating the interactions between the State and the Civil Society, focusing on the ...
(revised version published as 'Civil Society and the State: The Interplay Between Cooperation and Minimum Wage Regulation' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (1), 3 - 42)
J30, J50, K00
3679 Hans Bloemen
Elena G. F. Stancanelli
How Do Parents Allocate Time? The Effects of Wages and Income
This paper focuses on the time allocation of spouses and the impact of economic variables. We present a stylized model of the time allocation of spouses to illustrate the expected impact of wages and ...
(published as 'Market hours, household work, child care, and wage rates of partners: an empirical analysis' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2014, 12 (1), 51-81)
D1, D13, J21
3677 Melanie K. Jones
Richard J. Jones
Paul L. Latreille
Peter J. Sloane
Training, Job Satisfaction and Workplace Performance in Britain: Evidence from WERS 2004
This paper analyses the relationship between training, job satisfaction and workplace performance using the British 2004 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS). Several measures of performance ...
(published in: Labour, 2009, 23 (Special Issue), 139 - 175)
J0, J2, J3
3676 Anders Frederiksen
Odile Poulsen
Management Compensation and Firm-Level Income Inequality
In recent decades, most developed countries have experienced a simultaneous increase in income inequality and management compensation. In this paper, we study the relation between management ...
(published as 'Income Inequality: The Consequences of Skill-Upgrading - When Firms Have Hierarchical Organizational Structures' in Economic Inquiry, 2016, 54 (2), 1224-1239)
J3, J6, M5, O3
3674 Michael Daly
Liam Delaney
Colm P. Harmon
Psychological and Biological Foundations of Time Preference: Evidence from a Day Reconstruction Study with Biological Tracking
This paper considers the relationship between the economic concept of time preference and relevant concepts from psychology and biology. Using novel data from a time diary study conducted in Ireland ...
(published as 'Psychological and Biological Foundations of Time Preference' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 7 (2-3), 2009, 659 - 669)
C81, D84, D01, D91
3671 Markus Frölich
Blaise Melly
Identification of Treatment Effects on the Treated with One-Sided Non-Compliance
Traditional instrumental variable estimators do not generally estimate effects for the treated population but for the unobserved population of compliers. They do identify effects for the treated when ...
(published in: Econometric Reviews, 2013, 32 (3), 384-414)
C13, C14, C21
3670 Adriana Kugler
Mutlu Yuksel
Effects of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Natives: Evidence from Hurricane Mitch
In the 1980s the composition of immigrants to the U.S. shifted towards less-skilled workers. Around this time, real wages and employment of younger and less-educated U.S. workers fell. Some blame ...
(published in: David Leal and Stephen Trejo (eds.), Latinos and the U.S. Economy: A Labor Economics Perspective, Springer, 2011.)
J11, J21, J31, J61
3669 Quentin David
Alexandre Janiak
Etienne Wasmer
Local Social Capital and Geographical Mobility: Some Empirics and a Conjecture on the Nature of European Unemployment
European labor markets are characterized by the low geographical mobility of workers. The absence of mobility is a factor behind high unemployment when jobless people prefer to remain in their home ...
(merged with DP 3668 into "Social Capital, Mobility and Unemployment in Europe", published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2010, 68 (2), 191-204 )
J2, J61, Z1
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