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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
3298 Stephane Dees
M. Hashem Pesaran
L. Vanessa Smith
Ron P. Smith
Identification of New Keynesian Phillips Curves from a Global Perspective
New Keynesian Phillips Curves (NKPC) have been extensively used in the analysis of monetary policy, but yet there are a number of issues of concern about how they are estimated and then related to ...
(published in: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2009, 41 (7), 1481-1502)
C32, E17, F37, F42
3297 John Tyler
Magnus Lofstrom
Is the GED an Effective Route to Postsecondary Education for School Dropouts?
We use data from the Texas Schools Microdata Panel (TSMP) to examine the extent to which dropouts use the GED as a route to post-secondary education. The paper develops a model pointing out the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (5), 813–825)
I2, J18
3296 Leonce Ndikumana
Sher Verick
The Linkages between FDI and Domestic Investment: Unravelling the Developmental Impact of Foreign Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa
While the recent increase in foreign direct investment (FDI) to African countries is a welcome development, the question remains as to the impact of these resource inflows on economic development. ...
(published in: Development Policy Review, 2008, 26 (6), 713-726)
E22, F21, F23, O16
3295 Stefano Gagliarducci
Tommaso Nannicini
Paolo Naticchioni
Outside Income and Moral Hazard: The Elusive Quest for Good Politicians
In most modern democracies elected officials can work in the private sector while appointed in parliament. We show that when the political and market sectors are not mutually exclusive, a trade-off ...
(published as 'Moonlighting Politicians' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (9-10), 688-699)
D72, J45, P16
3294 John T. Addison
Clive R. Belfield
Unions, Training, and Firm Performance
The present paper uses a combination of workplace and linked employee-workplace data from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey and the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey to examine ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Market Research/Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung, 2007, 40 (4), 361-381)
J24, J33, J51
3293 Hector Sala
José I. Silva
Manuel E. Toledo
Flexibility at the Margin and Labor Market Volatility in OECD Countries
We study whether segmented labor markets with flexibility at the margin (e.g., just affecting fixed-term employees) can achieve similar volatility than fully deregulated labor markets. Flexibility at ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114 (3), 991-1017)
J23, J41, J63
3292 Niall O'Higgins
Marcello D'Amato
Floro Ernesto Caroleo
Adriana Barone
Gone for Good? Determinants of School Dropout in Southern Italy
The aim of the present paper is to gain some insight into the causes of dropping out of school and, more generally, of the factors that induce parents to review their choices about their child’s ...
(published in: Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, 2007, 66(2), 207-246)
I21, J13, J24
3291 Uwe Jirjahn
Kornelius Kraft
Teamwork and Intra-Firm Wage Dispersion among Blue-Collar Workers
Using data on a sample of manufacturing establishments in Germany, we find that the use of self-managed teams is associated with increased intra-firm wage inequality between skilled and unskilled ...
(revised version published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2010, 57(4), 404-429)
J30, J31, M52
3289 John T. Addison
Mario Centeno
Pedro Portugal
Do Reservation Wages Really Decline? Some International Evidence on the Determinants of Reservation Wages
Using cross-country data, we investigate the determinants of reservation wages and their course over the jobless spell. Higher unemployment benefits lead to higher reservation wages. Further, again ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2009, 30 (1), 1 - 8)
J64, J65
3288 Markus Frölich
Blaise Melly
Unconditional Quantile Treatment Effects under Endogeneity
This paper develops IV estimators for unconditional quantile treatment effects (QTE) when the treatment selection is endogenous. In contrast to conditional QTE, i.e. the effects conditional on a ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2013, 31(3), 346-357)
C13, C14, C21
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