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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
2867 Umut Oguzoglu
Dynamics of Work Limitation and Work in Australia
This paper examines the impact of self-reported work limitation on the labour force participation of the Australian working age population. Five consecutive waves of the Household, Income and Labour ...
(revised version published in: Health Economics, 2010, 19 (6), 656-669)
J28, I12, C81
2866 Gulcin Gumus
Tracy L. Regan
Tax Incentives as a Solution to the Uninsured: Evidence from the Self-Employed
Between the years 1996 and 2003, a series of amendments were made to the Tax Reform Act of 1986 (TRA86) that gradually increased the tax credit for health insurance purchases by the self-employed ...
(revised version published in: Inquiry, 2013, 50 (4), 275-295.)
J32, J48, I11
2865 Lex Borghans
Ben Kriechel
Wage Structure and Labor Mobility in the Netherlands 1999-2003
In this paper we document the wage structure and labor mobility in the Netherlands in the period 1999-2003. We explain the importance of wage-setting institutions in the Netherlands and the main ...
(published in: Edward Lazear and Katryn Shaw (eds.), The Structure of Wages: An International Comparisons, NBER and University of Chicago Press, 2008)
J31, J50, J62, J63, M52
2863 Joseph Price
Justin Wolfers
Racial Discrimination Among NBA Referees
The NBA provides an intriguing place to test for taste-based discrimination: referees and players are involved in repeated interactions in a high-pressure setting with referees making the type of ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2010, 125(4), 1859-1887)
K42, J15, J71
2862 Rainald Borck
Michael P. Pflüger
Matthias Wrede
A Simple Theory of Industry Location and Residence Choice
This paper provides a simple theory of geographical mobility which simultaneously explains people’s choice of residences in space and the location of industry. Residences are chosen on the basis of ...
(published in revised form in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2010, 10 (6), 913 - 940)
F12, F21, F22, R12, R23
2861 Erkki Koskela
Ronnie Schöb
How Tax Progression Affects Effort and Employment
Within an efficiency wage framework, we study the effects of two revenue-neutral tax reforms that change the progressivity of the labour tax system. A revenue-neutral increase in both the wage tax ...
(published as 'Is Tax Progression Good for Employment? Efficiency Wages and the Role of the Prereform Tax Structure' in: FinanzArchiv, 2009, 65 (1), 51 - 72 )
H22, J41, J48
2860 Arthur van Soest
Liam Delaney
Colm P. Harmon
Arie Kapteyn
James P. Smith
Validating the Use of Vignettes for Subjective Threshold Scales
Comparing self-assessed indicators of subjective outcomes such as health, work disability, political efficacy, job satisfaction, etc. across countries or socio-economic groups is often hampered by ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2011, 174 (3), 575-595)
C81, I12
2859 Vesa Kanniainen
Panu Poutvaara
Imperfect Transmission of Tacit Knowledge and Other Barriers to Entrepreneurship
This paper identifies several distortions which create barriers to entrepreneurship. First, in addition to the innate entry cost, there are entry costs caused by regulation. Second, union wage ...
(published in: Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal, 2007, 28 (4), 675-694)
J24, H25
2858 Santanu Chatterjee
Paola Giuliano
Ilker Kaya
Where Has All the Money Gone? Foreign Aid and the Quest for Growth
This paper examines fungibility as a possible explanation for the "missing link" between foreign aid and economic growth. The composition of aid plays a crucial role in determining the composition of ...
(published as 'Where Has All the Money Gone? Foreign Aid and the Composition of Government Spending' in: B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, 2012, 12 (1), Article 26)
E6, F3, F4, O1
2857 Robert J. Oxoby
The Effect of Incentive Structure on Heuristic Decision Making: The Proportion Heuristic
When making judgments, individuals often utilize heuristics to interpret information. We report on a series of experiments designed to test the ways in which incentive mechanisms influence the use of ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Social Psychology. 2009, 39 (1), 120 - 133)
C9, M5
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