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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
3356 Bernd Fitzenberger
Karsten Kohn
Alexander C. Lembcke
Union Density and Varieties of Coverage: The Anatomy of Union Wage Effects in Germany
Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining coverage is much higher than union density; and not all employees in a covered ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2013, 66 (1), 169-197)
J31, J51, J52
3355 David Neumark
Alternative Labor Market Policies to Increase Economic Self-Sufficiency: Mandating Higher Wages, Subsidizing Employment, and Raising Productivity
The principal means by which individuals and families achieve economic self-sufficiency is through labor market earnings. As a consequence, it is natural for policy makers to look to interventions ...
(published in: Heinrich, C.; Scholz, J. (eds.), Making the Work-Based Safety Net Work Better Russell Sage Foundation, New York, NY, , 2009, 5-78)
J18, J22, J23, J24
3354 David G. Blanchflower
International Evidence on Well-being
National Time Accounting is a way of measuring society's well-being, based on time use. Its explicit form is the U-index, for “unpleasant” or “undesirable”, which measures the proportion of time an ...
(published in: Alan Krueger (ed.): Measuring the Subjective Well-Being of Nations: National Accounts of Time Use and Well-Being, NBER and University of Chicago Press, 2009, 155 - 226)
J22
3353 Claus Schnabel
Susanne Kohaut
Udo Brixy
Employment Stability of Entrants in Newly Founded Firms: A Matching Approach Using Linked Employer-Employee Data from Germany
Using a linked employer-employee dataset and taking the perspective of individuals rather than firms, this paper analyzes some effects of joining start-ups. We show that entrants in new firms differ ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2011, 36(1), 85-100)
J63, J64
3352 Karen van der Wiel
Better Protected, Better Paid: Evidence on How Employment Protection Affects Wages
This paper empirically establishes the effect of the employer's term of notice on the wage level of employees. The term of notice is defined as the period an employer has to notify workers in advance ...
(substantially revised version published as IZA DP No. 4465)
C23, J31, J38, J63
3351 Laszlo Goerke
Markus Pannenberg
Risk Aversion and Trade Union Membership
In an open-shop model of trade union membership with heterogeneity in risk attitudes, a worker's relative risk aversion can affect the decision to join a trade union. Furthermore, a shift in risk ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Risk Aversion, Collective Bargaining, and Wages in Germany' in: Labour, 2012, 26 (2), 156 - 173 )
J51
3350 Thomas Dohmen
Hartmut Lehmann
Mark E Schaffer
Wage Policies of a Russian Firm and the Financial Crisis of 1998: Evidence from Personnel Data – 1997 to 2002
We use a rich personnel data set from a Russian firm for the years 1997 to 2002 to analyze how the financial crisis in 1998 and the resulting change in external labor market conditions affect the ...
(revised version published in: Industrial Labor Relations Review, 2014, 67 (2), 504-531.)
J23, J31, P23
3349 Laurens Cherchye
Bram De Rock
Frederic Vermeulen
Economic Well-Being and Poverty among the Elderly: An Analysis Based on a Collective Consumption Model
We apply the collective consumption model of Browning, Chiappori and Lewbel (2006) to analyse economic well-being and poverty among the elderly. The model focuses on individual preferences, a ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2012, 56 (6), 985-1000)
D11, D12, D13, D63, I31
3348 Stefano Gagliarducci
Tommaso Nannicini
Paolo Naticchioni
Electoral Rules and Politicians’ Behavior: A Micro Test
Theory predicts that the majoritarian electoral system should produce more targeted redistribution and lower politicians’ rents than proportional representation. We test these predictions using micro ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2011, 3 (3), 144-174)
C20, D72, D78, P16
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