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No.
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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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3460
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Guillermina
Jasso
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Shall We Kill or Enslave Caesar? Analyzing the Caesar Model
When a society overthrows a ruler – call the ruler Caesar – what determines whether Caesar is killed or enslaved? This paper presents a model of killing versus enslaving Caesar, based on a new theory ...
(published in: Advances in Group Processes, 2008, 25, 327-343)
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D6, I3, N40
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3459
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Simon
Appleton
Lina
Song
Qingjie
Xia
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Growing out of Poverty: Trends and Patterns of Urban Poverty in China 1988–2002
This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP) surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing that poverty ...
(published in: World Development, 2010, 38 (5), 665-678)
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O15, J38, O38
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3458
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Timothy
J.
Halliday
Michael
C.
Kimmitt
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Selective Migration and Health
Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we investigate the impact of health on domestic migration within the United States. We find that, for men below 60 years of age, a move from the ...
(published as: 'Selective Migration and Health in the USA, 1984 - 93' in: Population Studies, 2007, 61 (3), 321 - 334)
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J61
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3457
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Francesco
Pastore
Alina
Verashchagina
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The Determinants of Female Labour Supply in Belarus
Unlike in many other transition countries, where the gender pay gap has remained stable while female employment rates have reduced, in the case of Belarus women’ activity rate has been practically ...
(published in: Ravi Kanbur and Jan Svejnar (eds.), Labour Markets and Economic Development, London: Routledge, 2009)
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J13, J16, J22, P20, P52
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3456
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Milan
Vodopivec
Nisha
Arunatilake
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The Impact of Population Aging on the Labor Market: The Case of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka’s population is predicted to age very fast during the next 50 years, bringing a slowdown of labor force growth and after 2030 its contraction. Based on an original, 2006 representative ...
(published in: Journal of Population Ageing, 2011, 4 (3), 141-163)
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J11, J14, J26
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3455
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Hans
Bloemen
Elena
G. F.
Stancanelli
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Modelling the Employment and Wage Outcomes of Spouses: Is She Outearning Him?
This paper is focused on couple households where the wife is the main earner. The economic literature on this subject is particularly scant. According to our estimates, the wife was the main earner ...
(published as 'Toyboys or supergirls? An analysis of earnings and employment outcomes of spouses' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2015, 13 (3), 501-530)
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D1, J12, J21
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3454
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Simon
Appleton
John
Knight
Lina
Song
Qingjie
Xia
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The Economics of Communist Party Membership: The Curious Case of Rising Numbers and Wage Premium during China’s Transition
Why is it that, as the Chinese Communist Party has loosened its grip, abandoned its core beliefs, and marketized the economy, its membership has risen markedly along with the economic benefits of ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2009, 45, (2), 256-275)
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J31, J40, J71, P20, P30
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3453
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Ira
N.
Gang
Kunal
Sen
Myeong-Su
Yun
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Was the Mandal Commission Right? Living Standard Differences between Backward Classes and Other Social Groups in India
Affirmative action has been at the heart of public policies towards the socially disadvantaged in India. Compensatory discrimination policies which have been adopted for the Scheduled Castes (SC) and ...
(published in: Economic and Political Weekly, 2011, 46(39), 43-51)
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I32, O12, J15
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3452
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Sandra
E.
Black
Paul
J.
Devereux
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
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Too Young to Leave the Nest? The Effects of School Starting Age
Does it matter when a child starts school? While the popular press seems to suggest it does, there is limited evidence of a long-run effect of school starting age on student outcomes. This paper uses ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93 (2), 455-467.)
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J1
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3451
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Wolfram
F.
Richter
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Efficient Tax Policy Ranks Education Higher Than Saving
Assuming a two-period model with endogenous choices of labour, education, and saving, it is shown to be second-best efficient not to distort the choice of education. In general this implies ...
(revised version based on DP 2328 and DP 3451 published as "Taxing education in Ramsey's tradition" in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93 (11-12), 1254-1260)
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H21, I28, J24
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12989Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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