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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
2558 Volker Grossmann
Thomas M. Steger
Growth, Development, and Technological Change
The theory of endogenous technical change has deeply contributed to our understanding of the fundamental sources of economic growth and development. In this chapter we survey important contributions ...
(published in: Wei-Bin Zhang (ed.), UNESCO Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (Mathematical Models in Economics), Eolss Publishers, Oxford, UK: 2007)
O10, O30, O40
2557 Xin Meng
Jim Ryan
Does a Food for Education Program Affect School Outcomes? The Bangladesh Case
The Food for Education (FFE) program was introduced to Bangladesh in 1993. This paper evaluates the effect of this program on school participation and duration of schooling using a household survey ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (2), 415-447)
J38, I28
2556 Torben M. Andersen
Allan Sørensen
Product Market Integration and Labour Markets: Aggregate Gains at the Cost of More Inequality?
Important labour market consequences of globalization may arise via product market integration which affects the room for wage negotiations and generates job creation and destruction through ...
(published as 'Product Market Integration, Rents and Wage Inequality' in: Review of International Economics, 2011, 19 (4), 595 - 608)
F15, F16, J39, J50, J63
2555 Herwig Immervoll
Minimum Wages, Minimum Labour Costs and the Tax Treatment of Low-Wage Employment
International comparisons of minimum-wage levels have largely focused on the gross value of minimum wages, ignoring the effects of taxation on both labour costs and the net income of employees. This ...
(corrected and updated version published in OECD (2007), Taxing Wages 2005/2006)
J2, J3, H2, H3
2554 Jo Blanden
Paul Gregg
Lindsey Macmillan
Accounting for Intergenerational Income Persistence: Noncognitive Skills, Ability and Education
We analyse in detail the factors that lead to intergenerational persistence among sons, where this is measured as the association between childhood family income and later adult earnings. We seek to ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (519), C43-C60)
J62, J13, J31
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
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