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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
2673 Mirjam C. van Praag
Bernard M. S. van Praag
The Benefits of Being Economics Professor A (and not Z)
Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in the economics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose last name initials ...
(published in: Economica, 2008, 75 (300), 782-796)
A11, A14, J32, J44
2672 Björn Anders Gustafsson
Birgitta Jansson
Top Incomes in Sweden during Three-Quarters of a Century: A Micro Data Approach
This paper aims to throw light on the development of top incomes in Sweden as well as the causes for change. Using household income data we show that since the first half of the 1980s, real income at ...
(published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2008, 32 (6), 963-976)
D31, J31, N34
2671 Arnaud Chéron
François Langot
Eva Moreno-Galbis
The “Dynamic” of Job Competition during the ICT Revolution
Our paper seeks to gain insights on the effect of labor market institutions on the evolution of overeducation (job competition), unemployment inequalities and job instability during the polarization ...
(published in: Economica, 2010, 78 (309), 159-186)
J23, J24, J63, L23, O33
2670 Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
The International Transferability of Immigrants’ Human Capital Skills
This paper uses the approach in the under/over education literature to analyze the extent of matching of educational level to occupational attainment among adult native born and foreign born men in ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2009, 28 (2), 162-169)
J24, J31, J62, F22
2669 Olivier B. Bargain
Olivier Donni
A Theory of Child Targeting
There is a large empirical literature on policy measures targeted at children but surprisingly very little theoretical foundation to ground the debate on the optimality of the different instruments. ...
(published as 'Targeting and Child Poverty' in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2012, 39(4), 783-808)
D13, D31, D63, H21, H31
2668 Martin Salm
The Effect of Pensions on Longevity: Evidence from Union Army Veterans
This study uses changes in pension laws for Union Army veterans as a natural experiment to estimate the causal effect of pensions on longevity, and to examine potential pathways underlying such a ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2011, 212 (552), 595 - 619)
I12, J14, N41
2667 Joachim Wagner
Entry, Exit and Productivity: Empirical Results for German Manufacturing Industries
Using panel data from Spain Farinas and Ruano (IJIO 2005) test three hypotheses from a model by Hopenhayn (Econometrica 1992): (H1) Firms that exit in year t were in t-1 less productive than firms ...
(published in: German Economic Review 2010, 11(1), 78-85)
L11, L60
2666 Panu Poutvaara
Lars Siemers
Smoking and Social Interaction
We study the social interaction of non-smokers and smokers as a sequential game, incorporating insights from social psychology and experimental economics into an economic model. Social norms affect ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27 (6), 1503–1515)
I18, D01, D11
2665 Anders Björklund
Markus Jäntti
Gary Solon
Nature and Nurture in the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Status: Evidence from Swedish Children and Their Biological and Rearing Parents
This study uses an extraordinary Swedish data set to explore the sources of the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status. Merging data from administrative sources and censuses, we ...
(published in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Advances in Economic Analysis and Policy, 2007, 7 (2), Article 4)
I20, J30, J62
2664 Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
Occupational Language Requirements and the Value of English in the U.S. Labor Market
This paper is concerned with the English language requirements (both level and importance) of occupations in the United States, as measured by the O*NET database. These scores are linked to microdata ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (1), 353-372)
J24, J31, J62, F22
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