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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
3128 Peter Haan
Katharina Wrohlich
Optimal Taxation: The Design of Child Related Cash- and In-Kind-Benefits
This paper contributes to the debate about the optimal design of tax-transfer systems. Based on the theory of optimal taxation, combined with microsimulation and microeconometric techniques we derive ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2010, 11(3), 278-301)
C23, C25, J22, J64
3126 Alessandra Catozzella
Marco Vivarelli
The Catalysing Role of In-House R & D in Fostering the Complementarity of Innovative Inputs
The aim of this study is to test the possible catalysing role of in-house R&D in fostering the complementarity of innovative inputs on a sample of 3045 manufacturing firms drawn from the third ...
(published in: Industry and Innovation, 2014, 21, 179-196 )
O31
3125 John S. Earle
Álmos Telegdy
Ownership and Wages: Estimating Public-Private and Foreign-Domestic Differentials Using LEED from Hungary, 1986–2003
Studies of public-private and foreign-domestic wage differentials face difficulties distinguishing ownership effects from correlated characteristics of workers and firms. This paper estimates these ...
(published in: Analysis of Firms and Employees - Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches (F. Andersson, S. Bender, J. Lane, K. Shaw, and T. von Wachter, eds.), NBER and University of Chicago, 2008.)
D21, G34, J23, J31, L33, P31
3124 Hiroshi Ono
Madeline Zavodny
Immigrants, English Ability and the Digital Divide
This study examines the extent and causes of inequalities in information technology (IT) ownership and use between natives and immigrants in the U.S., focusing on the role of English ability. The ...
(published in: Social Forces, 2008, 86 (4), 1455-1480)
J61, F22, O33
3123 Gerard J. van den Berg
Maarten Lindeboom
France Portrait
Long-Run Longevity Effects of a Nutritional Shock Early in Life: The Dutch Potato Famine of 1846–1847
Background: Nutrition in utero and infancy may causally affect health and mortality at old ages. Until now, very few studies have demonstrated long-run effects on survival of early life nutrition, ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2010, 29 (5), 617-629)
N33, J10, I10
3121 Charles Bellemare
Luc Bissonnette
Sabine Kröger
Flexible Approximation of Subjective Expectations Using Probability Questions: An Application to the Investment Game
We use spline interpolation to approximate the subjective cumulative distribution function of an economic agent over the future realization of a continuous (possibly censored) random variable. The ...
(published separately as ‘Flexible Approximation of Subjective Expectations Using Probability Questions ‘in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2012, 30 (1), 125 - 131 and as ‘Bounding Preference Parameters under Different Assumptions about Beliefs: a Partial Identification Approach’ in: Experimental Economics, 2010, 13, 334 - 345)
C81, C10, D39
3120 Maria Knoth Humlum
Kristin J. Kleinjans
Helena Skyt Nielsen
An Economic Analysis of Identity and Career Choice
Standard economic models which focus on pecuniary payoffs cannot explain why there are highly able individuals who choose careers with low pecuniary returns. Therefore, financial incentives are ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2012, 50 (1), 39-61)
I21
3117 Andreas Roider
Risk, Delegation, and Project Scope
This paper studies a partial-contracting model where an agent may provide effort to increase a project’s scope before some later decisions have to be taken. Consistent with existing empirical ...
(revised version published as 'Delegation, Risk, and Project Scope ' in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2009, 165 (2), 193-209)
D86, D21, D23, G34, L14
3114 Marco Caliendo
Alexander S. Kritikos
Die reformierte Gründungsförderung für Arbeitslose: Chancen und Risiken
Support schemes for unemployed aiming for self-employment have been recently reformed several times. In 2003, the “start-up subsidy” was added to the existing “bridging allowance”. In 2006 both ...
(published in: Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 2009, 10(2), 189-213)
J68, M13
3112 Pedro S. Martins
Dismissals for Cause: The Difference That Just Eight Paragraphs Can Make
This paper provides evidence about the effects of dismissals-for-cause requirements, a specific component of employment protection legislation that has received little attention despite its potential ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 27(2), 257–279, 2009)
E24, J64, J65
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