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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
2662 Sherrilyn M. Billger
Principals as Agents? Investigating Accountability in the Compensation and Performance of School Principals
In this study I examine the relationship between accountability (e.g., state sanctions for poor performance, or the presence of goals required by the district) and public secondary principal pay and ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 61(1), 90-107)
J3, J48, I22
2661 Joachim Wagner
Productivity and Size of the Export Market: Evidence for West and East German Plants, 2004
Using unique recently released nationally representative high-quality data at the plant level, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivity and size ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2007, 227 (4), 403-408)
F14, D21
2660 Hans J. Baumgartner
Marco Caliendo
Turning Unemployment into Self-Employment: Effectiveness and Efficiency of Two Start-Up Programmes
Turning unemployment into self-employment has become a major focus of German active labour market policy (ALMP) in recent years. If effective, this would not only reduce Germany’s persistently high ...
(revised version published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2008, 70(3), 347-373)
J68, C14, H43, M13
2656 Joachim Wagner
Why More West than East German Firms Export
Using unique new data and a recently introduced non-linear decomposition technique this paper shows that the huge difference in the propensity to export between West and East German plants is to a ...
(published in: International Economics and Economic Policy, 2008, 5 (4), 363-370)
F14
2655 David A. Jaeger
Holger Bonin
Thomas Dohmen
Armin Falk
David B. Huffman
Uwe Sunde
Direct Evidence on Risk Attitudes and Migration
Geographic mobility is important for the functioning of labor markets because it brings labor resources to where they can be most efficiently used. It has long been hypothesized that individuals' ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 92(3), 684–689)
J61, D81, R23
2654 Peter A. Riach
Judy Rich
An Experimental Investigation of Age Discrimination in the Spanish Labour Market
In a field experiment of age discrimination, pairs of men aged twenty-seven and forty-seven, inquired, by email, about employment as waiters in twenty five Spanish towns. Discrimination against the ...
(published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 99/100, 169-185)
J71, C93
2653 Stephen Machin
Sandra McNally
Costas Meghir
Resources and Standards in Urban Schools
Despite being central to government education policy in many countries, there remains considerable debate about whether resources matter for pupil outcomes. In this paper we look at this question by ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2010, 4 (4), 365-393)
I21, H52, C52
2652 Yann Bramoullé
Habiba Djebbari
Bernard Fortin
Identification of Peer Effects through Social Networks
We provide new results regarding the identification of peer effects. We consider an extended version of the linear-in-means model where each individual has his own specific reference group. ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2009, 150 (1), 41-55)
D85, L14, Z13, C3
2651 Corrado Andini
Pedro T. Pereira
Full-time Schooling, Part-time Schooling, and Wages: Returns and Risks in Portugal
The standard wage equation proposed by Mincer (1974) assumes that individuals start working after leaving school, which is not the actual case for many people. Using longitudinal data on Portuguese ...
(revised version published in: Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2026, 104, 102388)
I21, J31, C23
2650 Christian Belzil
Testing the Specification of the Mincer Wage Equation
I perform the joint estimation of a reduced-form dynamic model of the transition from one grade level to the next, and a Mincer wage equation, using panel data taken from the NLSY. A very high degree ...
(published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2008, 92/92, 427 - 451)
J2, J3
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