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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
2691 Daniele Checchi
Jelle Visser
Herman G. van de Werfhorst
Inequality and Union Membership: The Impact of Relative Earnings Position and Inequality Attitudes
In this paper we examine the connection between union membership and economic inequality. Using several surveys from the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) covering the period 1985-2002, we ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2009, 48 (1), 84-108)
J51
2690 Iván Fernández-Val
Francis Vella
Bias Corrections for Two-Step Fixed Effects Panel Data Estimators
This paper introduces bias-corrected estimators for nonlinear panel data models with both time invariant and time varying heterogeneity. These include limited dependent variable models with both ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2011, 163 (2), 144-162)
C23, J31, J51
2689 Carlos Pestana Barros
Antonio Menezes
José António Cabral Vieira
Nicolas Peypoch
Bernardin Solonandrasana
An Analysis of Hospital Efficiency and Productivity Growth Using the Luenberger Productivity Indicator
We analyze the efficiency and productivity growth of a representative sample of Portuguese hospitals from 1997 to 2004, using an innovative approach by employing the directional distance function and ...
(published in: Health Care Management Science, 2008, 11 (4), 373-381)
I11, I18, L5
2687 Marco Caliendo
Alexander S. Kritikos
Is Entrepreneurial Success Predictable? An Ex-Ante Analysis of the Character-Based Approach
This paper empirically analyzes whether the character-based approach, which is based on the personality structure and the human capital of business founders, allows prediction of entrepreneurial ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2008, 61(2), 189-214)
M13, J23, C13
2686 Yoram Amiel
Frank A. Cowell
Xavier Ramos
On the Measurement of Polarisation: A Questionnaire Study
Starting from the axiomatisation of polarisation contained in Esteban and Ray (1994) and Chakravarty and Majumdar (2001) we investigate whether people's perceptions of income polarisation is ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2010, 56 (1), 23-46)
D63
2685 Christian Dustmann
Johannes Ludsteck
Uta Schönberg
Revisiting the German Wage Structure
This paper challenges the view that the wage structure in West-Germany has remained stable throughout the 80s and 90s. Based on a 2 % sample of social security records, we show that wage inequality ...
(revised version published in: Quaterly Journal of Economics, 2009, 124 (2), 843-88)
J3, D3, O3
2684 Pieter Bevelander
Sandra Groeneveld
How Many Hours Do You Have to Work to Be Integrated? Full Time and Part Time Employment of Native and Ethnic Minority Women in the Netherlands
Labor market participation is a central factor in the economic integration of migrants in their host country. Labor market integration of ethnic minority women is of special interest, as they may ...
(published as 'How many hours do you have to work to be integrated?' in: International Migration, 2012, 50 (s1), e117 - e131)
F22, J22, J61
2683 Rob Euwals
Jaco Dagevos
Mérove Gijsberts
Hans Roodenburg
The Labour Market Position of Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands: Reason for Migration, Naturalisation and Language Proficiency
On the basis of the German Socio-Economic Panel 2002 and the Dutch Social Position and Use of Provision Survey 2002, we investigate the importance of characteristics related to immigration for the ...
(published in: International Migration Review, 2010, 44 (3), 513-538)
C25, F22, J15, J61
2682 Sumon K. Bhaumik
Ira N. Gang
Myeong-Su Yun
Rationality as a Barrier to Peace: Micro-Evidence from Kosovo
Despite a significant expansion of the literature on conflicts and fragility of states, only a few systematic attempts have been made to link the theoretical literature on social conflicts to the ...
(published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 51(2): 242-264, 2009)
I32, O12, J15
2679 Juan J. Dolado
Marcel Jansen
Juan F. Jimeno
A Positive Analysis of Targeted Employment Protection Legislation
In many countries, Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) establishes less strict dismissal procedures for specific groups of workers. This paper builds a simple matching model with heterogeneous ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics: Topics in Macroeconomics, 2007, 7 (1), Article 14)
J64, J63
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