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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
3004 Olivier B. Bargain
Herwig Immervoll
Heikki Viitamäki
How Tight Are Safety-Nets in Nordic Countries? Evidence from Finnish Register Data
The non take-up of social assistance benefits due to claim costs may seriously limit the anti-poverty effect of these programs. Yet, available evidence is fragmented and mostly relies on ...
(substantially revised version: IZA DP 5355 / published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2012, 10 (3), 375-395)
D31, H31, H53, I38
3003 Laszlo Goerke
Markus Pannenberg
Heinrich W. Ursprung
A Positive Theory of the Earnings Relationship of Unemployment Benefits
Evidently, the benefit-structure of the unemployment insurance has a significant influence on profits and trade union utility. We show for a wage bargaining model that a stronger earnings ...
(published in: Public Choice, 2010, 145 (1-2), 137-163)
D72, J51, J65
3002 Arnab K. Basu
Nancy H. Chau
Ravi Kanbur
A Theory of Employment Guarantees: Contestability, Credibility and Distributional Concerns
Both raw intuition and past experience suggest that the success of an employment guarantee scheme (EGS) in safeguarding the welfare of the poor depends both on the wage it promises, and the ease with ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93 (3-4), 482-497)
I38, J21, K31, O12
3001 David M. Blau
Wilbert van der Klaauw
A Demographic Analysis of the Family Structure Experiences of Children in the United States
This paper provides a comprehensive demographic analysis of the family structure experiences of children in the U.S. Childbearing and transitions among co-residential union states defined by single, ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2008, 6 (3), 193-221)
J10
3000 Anders Björklund
Markus Jäntti
Matthew J. Lindquist
Family Background and Income during the Rise of the Welfare State: Brother Correlations in Income for Swedish Men Born 1932-1968
The goal of this study is to examine trends in the importance of family background in determining adult income in Sweden. We investigate whether the association between family background and income ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93(5-6), 671-680)
D1, D3, J62
2999 Amelie F. Constant
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Circular Migration: Counts of Exits and Years Away from the Host Country
The economic literature has largely overlooked the importance of repeat and circular migration. The paper studies this behavior by analyzing the number of exits and the total number of years away ...
(published as 'Circular and Repeat Migration: Counts of Exits and Years Away from the Host Country' in: Population Research and Policy Review, 2011, 30 (4), 495-515 )
F22, J15, J61, C25
2998 Arnab K. Basu
Nancy H. Chau
Ravi Kanbur
Turning a Blind Eye: Costly Enforcement, Credible Commitment and Minimum Wage Laws
In many countries, non-compliance with minimum wage legislation is widespread, and authorities may be seen as having turned a blind eye to a legislation that they have themselves passed. But if ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120 (543), 244 - 269)
D6, E61, J38
2996 David M. Blau
Tetyana Shvydko
Labor Market Rigidities and the Employment Behavior of Older Workers
The labor market is often asserted to be characterized by rigidities that make it difficult for older workers to carry out their desired trajectory from work to retirement. An important source of ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2011, 64 (3), 464-484)
J26, J23
2995 Eswar Prasad
Is the Chinese Growth Miracle Built to Last?
Is the Chinese growth miracle – a remarkably high growth rate sustained for over two decades – likely to persist or are the seeds of its eventual demise contained in the policies that have boosted ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2009, 20 (1), 103-123)
F3, E5, O1
2994 Christian Belzil
Marco Leonardi
Risk Aversion and Schooling Decisions
We develop a non-rational expectation econometric model of sequential schooling decisions. Using unique Italian panel data in which individual differences in attitudes toward risk are measurable ...
(published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 111/112, 35-70)
J24
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