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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
2589 Rosa Duarte
José-Julián Escario
José Alberto Molina
Peer Effects, Unobserved Factors and Risk Behaviours: An Analysis of Alcohol Abuse and Truancy among Adolescents
The objective of this paper is to examine the factors which affect alcohol abuse and truancy among adolescents. We propose a new theoretical specification in which alcohol abuse and truancy appear as ...
(published as 'Peer Effects, Unobserved Factors and Risk Behaviours in Adolescence' in: Revista de Economía Aplicada, 2011, 29 (55), 125-152)
I10, I12, I20, I21
2587 Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
Matching Language Proficiency to Occupation: The Effect on Immigrants’ Earnings
This paper analyzes the effect on earnings of the matching of English language skills to occupational requirements. It uses data from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) database and a ...
(published as 'The impact of surplus skills on earnings: Extending the over-education model to language proficiency' in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 36, 263-275)
J24, J31, F22
2584 Richard A. Easterlin
Onnicha Sawangfa
Happiness and Domain Satisfaction: Theory and Evidence
In the United States happiness, on average, varies positively with socio-economic status; is fairly constant over time; rises to midlife and then declines; and is lower among younger than older birth ...
(published in: A.K. Dutt and B. Radcliff (eds.), Happiness, Economics, and Politics: Towards a Multi-Disciplinary Approach, 2009, Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar)
I3, D60, D1, O51
2581 Miquel Clar
Christian Dreger
Raul Ramos
Wage Flexibility and Labour Market Institutions: A Meta-Analysis
Evidence during the nineties about the response of real wages to shocks highlights that this response is substantially lower in European countries than in the United States and that there are ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2007, 60(2), 145-163)
J30, J50
2580 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Fun with Matched Firm-Employee Data: Progress and Road Maps
With the beginnings of a worldwide burgeoning development of matched firm-employee data, it is worthwhile to examine the possibilities for using these data. This essay discusses a variety of areas in ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (4), 663-673)
J2, J3
2579 Pieter A. Gautier
Arjen Siegmann
Aico van Vuuren
The Effect of the Theo van Gogh Murder on House Prices in Amsterdam
This paper estimates the impact of the murder of film maker Theo van Gogh on November 2, 2004, on listed house prices in Amsterdam with a unique dataset. We use an hedonic-market approach to show ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2009, 65(2), 113-126.)
C31, C41, R21, R23, R31
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