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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
2553 Xin Meng
Wealth Accumulation and Distribution in Urban China
Under socialism it was neither possible nor necessary to accumulate significant levels of personal wealth. The acceleration of economic reform in the last decade, however, has brought dramatic ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2007, 55 (4), 761-791)
D31, I30
2550 Flavio Cunha
James J. Heckman
The Technology of Skill Formation
This paper develops a model of skill formation that explains a variety of findings established in the child development and child intervention literatures. At its core is a technology that is ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2007, 97 (2), 31-47)
J13, J24, I38
2549 Philippe Askenazy
Eva Moreno-Galbis
Technological and Organizational Changes, and Labor Flows: Evidence on French Establishments
This paper investigates the effects of organizational and technological changes on job stability of different occupational categories in France. We conduct an empirical analysis in which we make ...
(published in: LABOUR, 2007, 21 (2), 265–301)
J23, J41, J63, L23, O33
2547 Ansgar H. Belke
Daniel Gros
Instability of the Eurozone? On Monetary Policy, House Prices and Labor Market Reforms
This paper deals with potential instabilities in the Eurozone stemming from an insufficient interplay between monetary policy and reform effort on the one hand and the emergence of intra-Euro area ...
(published in: in: Heise, Michael, Tilly, Richard, Welfens, Paul J.J. (eds.), Integration, Financial Markets and Innovations – 50 Years of EU Dynamics, 2007, 75-108.)
D78, E52, E61
2546 Steffen Habermalz
Kristen Monaco
A Post-Deregulation Analysis of Wages in U.S. Freight Transportation
After a period of regulatory changes in the early 1980s we are faced with “new” freight transportation labor markets in the U.S. Using data from the 1984-1999 Current Population Survey, we examine ...
(published in: International Journal of Transport Economics, 34 (1), 2007)
J31, L92
2545 David Neumark
Junfu Zhang
Stephen Ciccarella
The Effects of Wal-Mart on Local Labor Markets
We estimate the effects of Wal-Mart stores on county-level retail employment and earnings, accounting for endogeneity of the location and timing of Wal-Mart openings that most likely biases the ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2008, 63(2), 405-430)
J21, R12
2543 Tue Gorgens
Xin Meng
Rhema Vaithianathan
Stunting and Selection Effects of Famine: A Case Study of the Great Chinese Famine
The Great Chinese Famine of 1959-1961 is puzzling, since despite the high death rates, there is no discernable diminution in height amongst the majority of cohorts who were exposed to the famine in ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 97 (1), 99 - 111)
C33, I12, N95, O15
2542 Sascha O. Becker
Marco Caliendo
mhbounds - Sensitivity Analysis for Average Treatment Effects
Matching has become a popular approach to estimate average treatment effects. It is based on the conditional independence or unconfoundedness assumption. Checking the sensitivity of the estimated ...
(published in: Stata Journal, 2007, 7(1), 71-83)
C40
2541 Benno Torgler
Friedrich Schneider
The Impact of Tax Morale and Institutional Quality on the Shadow Economy
This paper analyses how tax morale and countries’ institutional quality affect the shadow economy, controlling in a multivariate analysis for a variety of potential factors. The literature strongly ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2009, 30 (2), 228-245)
D73, D78, H2, H26, O17, O5
2540 L. Rachel Ngai
Christopher A. Pissarides
Trends in Hours and Economic Growth
We study long-run trends in market hours of work and employment shifts across economic sectors driven by uneven TFP growth in market and home production. We focus on the substitutions between market ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2008, 11 (2), 239-256)
J21, J22, O14, O41
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