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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
3550 John Bennett
Formality, Informality, and Social Welfare
An industry is modeled in which entrepreneurs, who are heterogeneous in ability, may produce formally or informally. It is shown how the formal-informal mix depends on the distribution of ability, ...
(published as 'Informal Production and Labour Market Segmentation' in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2011, 167 (4), 686-707)
O17, D2
3549 Sandra Sookram
Eric Strobl
The Role of Educational Choice in Occupational Gender Segregation: Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago
We analyse the role of educational choice on the degree of occupational segregation in Trinidad and Tobago during a period in which educational policies intent on equating gender opportunities in ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2009, 28 (1), 1-10)
I21, J16, J24
3548 Keith Chen
Fabian Lange
Education, Information, and Improved Health: Evidence from Breast Cancer Screening
While it is well known that education strongly predicts health, less is known as to why. One reason might be that education improves health-care decision making. In this paper we attempt to ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (1), 43-54)
I10, I12, I20, D83
3547 Brian Duncan
Stephen J. Trejo
Intermarriage and the Intergenerational Transmission of Ethnic Identity and Human Capital for Mexican Americans
Using microdata from the 2000 U.S. Census and from recent years of the Current Population Survey (CPS), we investigate whether selective intermarriage and endogenous ethnic identification interact to ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2011, 29 (2), 195-227)
J15, J62, J12
3546 Maria Concetta Chiuri
Daniela Del Boca
Household Membership Decisions of Adult Children
While several social, economic and financial indicators point to a growing convergence among European countries, striking differences still emerge in the timing of leaving home for adult children. In ...
(published in: Labour, 2010, 24 (s1), 3-24)
J13, C41, H53
3543 Michael Svarer
Crime and Partnerships
This paper tests whether being convicted of a crime affects marriage market outcomes. While it is relatively well documented that crime hurts in terms of reduced future income, there has been little ...
(reduced version published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (3), 307 - 325)
J12
3541 Evelyn L. Lehrer
The Role of Religion in Economic and Demographic Behavior in the United States: A Review of the Recent Literature
This paper presents a critical review and synthesis of recent research on the role of religion in economic and demographic behavior in the United States. Relationships reviewed include the effects of ...
(published in: Evelyn Lehrer: Religion, Economics, and Demography, London: Routledge, 2009)
J1, J2
3540 Bernd Fitzenberger
Olga Orlyanskaya
Aderonke Osikominu
Marie Waller
Déjà Vu? Short-Term Training in Germany 1980–1992 and 2000–2003
Short-term training has recently become the largest active labor market program in Germany regarding the number of participants. Little is known on the effectiveness of different types of short-term ...
(revised version published in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 44(1), 289-328)
C14, J68, H43
3539 Javier Díaz-Giménez
Eugenio Giolito
Gender Differences and the Timing of First Marriages
We study the steady state of an overlapping generations economy where singles search for spouses. In our model economy men and women live for many years and they differ in their fecundity, in their ...
(revised version published as 'Accounting for the Timing of First Marriage' in: International Economic Review, 2013, 54 (1), 135–158)
J12, D83
3538 María Cervini-Plá
Xavier Ramos
Long Term Earnings Inequality, Earnings Instability and Temporary Employment in Spain: 1993–2000
This paper provides a longitudinal perspective on changes in Spanish male earnings inequality for the period 1993-2000, by decomposing the earnings covariance structure into its permanent and ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2011, 50 (4), 714-736)
C23, D31, J31
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