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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
3366 Volker Grossmann
David Stadelmann
International Mobility of the Highly Skilled, Endogenous R&D, and Public Infrastructure Investment
This paper theoretically and empirically analyzes the interaction of emigration of highly skilled labor, an economy’s income gap to potential host economies of expatriates, and optimal public ...
(published as "Does International Mobility of High-Skilled Workers Aggravate Between-Country Inequality?" in: Journal of Development Economics, 2011, 95 (1), 88 - 94)
F22, O30, H40
3365 Tito Boeri
Michael C. Burda
Preferences for Collective versus Individualised Wage Setting
Standard models of equilibrium unemployment assume exogenous labour market institutions and flexible wage determination. This paper models wage rigidity and collective bargaining endogenously, when ...
(published in Economic Journal, 2009, 119, 1440-1463.)
J5, J6, D7
3364 François Langot
Coralia Quintero Rojas
Explaining the Evolution of Hours Worked and Employment across OECD Countries: An Equilibrium Search Approach
Since 1960, the dynamics of the aggregate hours of market work exhibit dramatic differences across industrialized countries. Before 1980, these differences seem to come from the hours worked per ...
(updated version published as 'Explaining labor wedge trends: An equilibrium search approach' in: European Journal of Comparative Economics, 2016, 13 (1), 3 - 35 )
E2, J2, J6
3363 Gabriel Felbermayr
Julien Prat
Hans-Jörg Schmerer
Globalization and Labor Market Outcomes: Wage Bargaining, Search Frictions, and Firm Heterogeneity
We introduce search unemployment à la Pissarides into Melitz’ (2003) model of trade with heterogeneous firms. We allow wages to be individually or collectively bargained and analytically solve for ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2011, 146 (1), 39-73)
F12, F15, F16
3362 Habiba Djebbari
Jeffrey A. Smith
Heterogeneous Impacts in PROGRESA
The “common effect” model in program evaluation assumes that all treated individuals have the same impact from a program. Our paper contributes to the recent literature that tests and goes beyond the ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2008, 145 (1-2), 64-80)
C21, C14, I38
3361 Massimiliano Bratti
Daniele Checchi
Guido de Blasio
Does the Expansion of Higher Education Increase the Equality of Educational Opportunities? Evidence from Italy
This paper studies the role of the expansion of higher education (HE) in increasing the equality of tertiary education opportunities. It examines Italy’s experience during the 1990s, when policy ...
(revised version published in: Labour, 2008, 22 (s1), 53–88 )
I2
3360 Marco Caliendo
Start-Up Subsidies in East Germany: Finally, a Policy that Works?
The German government has spent between 7bn and 11bn Euro per year on active labor market policies (ALMP) in East Germany in the last decade. The effectiveness of the most important programs (in ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30(7), 625-647)
J68, C14, H43, M13
3359 Thorsten Schank
Claus Schnabel
Joachim Wagner
Higher Wages in Exporting Firms: Self-Selection, Export Effect, or Both? First Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data
While it is a stylized fact that exporting firms pay higher wages than non-exporting firms, the direction of the link between exporting and wages is less clear. Using a rich set of German linked ...
(published in: Review of World Economics, 2010, 146 (2), 303-322)
F10, D21, J31
3358 Carla Calero
Arjun S. Bedi
Robert Sparrow
Remittances, Liquidity Constraints and Human Capital Investments in Ecuador
Over the last decade Ecuador has experienced a strong increase in financial transfers from migrated workers, amounting to 6.4 percent of GDP and 31.5 percent of total exports of goods and services in ...
(published in: World Development, 2009, 37 (6), 1143-1154)
I20, J22, O15
3357 John T. Addison
Mario Centeno
Pedro Portugal
Unemployment Benefits and Reservation Wages: Key Elasticities from a Stripped-Down Job Search Approach
This paper exploits survey information on reservation wages and data on actual wages from the European Community Household Panel to deduce in the manner of Lancaster and Chesher (1983) additional ...
(published in: Economica, 2010, 77 (305), 46–59)
J64, J65
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