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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
3155 Aslan Zorlu
Jan Latten
Ethnic Sorting in the Netherlands
This paper examines the residential mobility behaviour of migrants and natives in the Netherlands using a rich administrative individual data file. The inclination to move and the choice of ...
(published in: Urban Studies, 2009, 46 (9), 1899-1923)
J1, J6, R3
3153 John de New
Mathias Sinning
Social Deprivation and Exclusion of Immigrants in Germany
This paper aims at providing empirical evidence on social exclusion of immigrants in Germany. We demonstrate that when using a conventional definition of the social inclusion index typically applied ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2010, 56 (4), 715-733)
F22, I31, Z13
3151 Eliane El Badaoui
Eric Strobl
Frank Walsh
Is There an Informal Employment Wage Penalty? Evidence from South Africa
We estimate the wage penalty associated with working in the South African informal sector. To this end we use a rich data set on non-self employed males that allows one to accurately distinguish ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2008, 56 (3), 683–710)
J31, O17
3150 Leif Danziger
The Elasticity of Labor Demand and the Minimum Wage
We show that, contrary to widespread belief, low-pay workers do not generally prefer that the minimum wage rate be increased until the labor demand is unitary elastic. Rather, there exists a critical ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (3), 757-772)
J38
3149 Stefanie Behncke
Markus Frölich
Michael Lechner
Unemployed and Their Caseworkers: Should They Be Friends or Foes?
In many countries, caseworkers in a public employment office have the dual roles of counselling and monitoring unemployed persons. These roles often conflict with each other leading to important ...
(published in: Journal of Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2010, 173 (1), 67-92)
J68, C31
3147 Pernilla Andersson Joona
Eskil Wadensjö
The Employees of Native and Immigrant Self-Employed
Using unique register data for Sweden we can match self-employed persons to their employees. We analyze the national composition of the employees and ask if self-employed immigrants mainly employ ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2009, 29, 229 - 250)
J15, J61
3146 Martin Kahanec
Mariapia Mendola
Social Determinants of Labor Market Status of Ethnic Minorities in Britain
The labor market outcomes of ethnic minorities in advanced societies and their dependence on social relationships and membership in social networks are important empirical issues with significant ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2009, 29, 167-195 )
J7, J15, J21
3144 René Böheim
Ana Rute Cardoso
Temporary Agency Work in Portugal, 1995–2000
There is widespread belief that workers in temporary agency work (TAW) are subject to poorer working conditions, in particular pay, than comparable workers in the rest of the economy. The first aim ...
(published as 'Temporary help services employment in Portugal, 1995-2000' in: David H. Autor (ed.), Studies of Labor Market Intermediation. Chicago: Chicago Univ. Press and NBER, 2009, 520-560)
D21, J31, J40
3143 Guido Friebel
Wendelin Schnedler
Team Governance: Empowerment or Hierarchical Control
We investigate a team setting in which workers have different degrees of commitment to the outcome of their work. We show that if there are complementarities in production and if the team manager has ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2011, 78 (1-2), 1-13)
M54, D86
3142 Clemens Fuest
Andreas Peichl
Thilo Schaefer
Is a Flat Tax Feasible in a Grown-up Welfare State?
The success of the flat rate tax in Eastern Europe suggests that this concept could also be a model for the welfare states of Western Europe. The present paper uses a simulation model to analyse the ...
(revised version published as "Is a flat tax reform feasible in a grown-up democracy of Western Europe? A simulation study for Germany" in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2008, 15 (5), 620-636)
D31, D60, H20
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