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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
2602 Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers
Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces
We document key facts about marriage and divorce, comparing trends through the past 150 years and outcomes across demographic groups and countries. While divorce rates have risen over the past 150 ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2007, 21(2), 27-52)
D1, H31, I3, J1, K36, N3
2601 Stephen L. Ross
Yves Zenou
Are Shirking and Leisure Substitutable? An Empirical Test of Efficiency Wages Based on Urban Economic Theory
Recent theoretical work has examined the spatial distribution of unemployment using the efficiency wage model as the mechanism by which unemployment arises in the urban economy. This paper extends ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2008, 38, 498-517)
J41, R14
2599 Marco Caliendo
Ludovica Gambaro
Peter Haan
The Impact of Income Taxation on the Ratio between Reservation and Market Wages and the Incentives for Labour Supply
This paper extends previous research about the determinants of reservation wages by analysing the effect of progressive income taxation on the ratio between reservation and net market wages. Based on ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2009, 16 (9), 877-883)
J22, H24, H31
2598 Guillermina Jasso
Samuel Kotz
A New Continuous Distribution and Two New Families of Distributions Based on the Exponential
Recent work on social status led to derivation of a new continuous distribution based on the exponential. The new variate, termed the ring(2)-exponential, in turn leads to derivation of two ...
(published in: Statistica Neerlandica, 2007, 61(3), 305-328)
C02, C16, D31, D6, I3
2596 Eric Maurin
Sandra McNally
Educational Effects of Widening Access to the Academic Track: A Natural Experiment
It is difficult to know whether widening access to schools which provide a more academically oriented general education makes a difference to average educational achievement. We make use of reforms ...
(published as 'The Effect of Tracking Students by Ability into Different Schools: A Natural Experiment' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2012, 47 (3), 684-721)
I2
2594 Juan Carlos Candeal
Esteban Induráin
José Alberto Molina
Interpersonal Comparisons of Utility: An Algebraic Characterization of Projective Preorders and Some Welfare Consequences
It is shown that any completely preordered topological real algebra admits a continuous utility representation which is an algebra-homomorphism (i.e., it is linear and multiplicative). As an ...
(published as 'Numerical representability or ordered topological spaces with compatible algebraic structure' in: Order, 2012, 29, 131-146 )
C60, C65, D60, D63
2593 Roberto Bande
Marika Karanassou
Labour Market Flexibility and Regional Unemployment Rate Dynamics: Spain 1980-1995
This paper aims to shed light in the dynamics of Spanish regional unemployment rates and determine the driving forces of their disparities. The Spanish economy has one of the highest unemployment ...
(published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2009, 88(1), 181-207)
R23, J64
2592 Guillermina Jasso
Studying Justice: Measurement, Estimation, and Analysis of the Actual Reward and the Just Reward
This paper describes procedures for measuring and estimating the fundamental quantities in the study of distributive justice. We examine a variety of methods for measuring the actual reward and the ...
(published in: Kjell Törnblom and Riel Vermunt (eds.), Distributive and Procedural Justice: Research and Social Applications. London, UK: Ashgate, 2007)
D1, D31, D6, D8, I3, J31
2591 Síle O'Dorchai
Robert Plasman
François Rycx
The Part-Time Wage Penalty in European Countries: How Large Is It for Men?
Economic theory advances a number of reasons for the existence of a wage gap between part-time and full-time workers. Empirical work has concentrated on the wage effects of part-time work for women. ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2007, 28 (7), 571-603)
C13, C31, J24, J31, J71
2590 David Card
Raj Chetty
Andrea Weber
The Spike at Benefit Exhaustion: Leaving the Unemployment System or Starting a New Job?
In this paper, we review the literature on the “spike” in unemployment exit rates around benefit exhaustion, and present new evidence based on administrative data for a large sample of job losers in ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2007, 97 (2), 113-118)
J64, J65
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