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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
2539 James Banks
Michael Marmot
Zoë Oldfield
James P. Smith
The SES Health Gradient on Both Sides of the Atlantic
Looking across many diseases, average health among mature men is much worse in America compared to England. Second, there exists a steep negative health gradient for men in both countries where men ...
(published in: David Wise (ed.), Developments in the Economics of Aging, University of Chicago Press, pp. 359-406, 2009)
I10
2538 Timothy J. Hatton
Andrew Leigh
Immigrants Assimilate as Communities, Not Just as Individuals
There is a large econometric literature that examines the economic assimilation of immigrants in the United States and elsewhere. On the whole immigrants are seen as atomistic individuals ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (2), 389-419)
F2, J3, J6
2537 Holger Bonin
Amelie F. Constant
Konstantinos Tatsiramos
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity
The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We ...
(substantially revised version published in: IZA Journal of Migration , 2012, 1, Article 5 )
D1, D81, F22, J15, J16, J31, J62, J82
2535 Laura V Zimmermann
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Amelie F. Constant
Ethnic Self-Identification of First-Generation Immigrants
This paper uses the concept of ethnic self-identification of immigrants in a two-dimensional framework. It acknowledges the fact that attachments to the home and the host country are not necessarily ...
(published in: International Migration Review, 2007, 41 (3), 769-781)
F22, J15, J16, Z10
2533 Holger Bonin
Ulf Rinne
Beautiful Serbia
The paper studies the causal impact of participation in an active labor market program – the ‘Beautiful Serbia’ program providing training and temporary work in the construction sector in Serbia and ...
(revised version published as 'Beautiful Serbia’ - objective and subjective outcomes of active labour market policy in a transition economy" in: Economics of Transition, 2014, 22(1), 43-67 )
J68, H43, P27
2532 Ana Rute Cardoso
Miguel Portela
Carla Sá
Fernando Alexandre
Demand for Higher Education Programs: The Impact of the Bologna Process
The Bologna process aims at creating a European Higher Education Area where inter-country mobility of students and staff, as well as workers holding a degree, is facilitated. While several aspects of ...
(published in: CESIfo Economic Studies, 2008, 54 (2), 229-247)
I28, I21, F15
2530 Amelie F. Constant
Martin Kahanec
Klaus F. Zimmermann
The Russian-Ukrainian Political Divide
The Orange Revolution unveiled significant political and economic tensions between ethnic Russians and Ukrainians in Ukraine. Whether this divide was caused by purely ethnic differences or by ...
(published in: Eastern European Economics, 2011, 49 (6), 103-115 )
D72, J15
2529 Wim Groot
Henriette Maassen van den Brink
Bernard M. S. van Praag
The Compensating Income Variation of Social Capital
There is a small but growing literature on the determinants of social capital. Most of these studies use a measure of trust to define social capital empirically. In this paper we use three different ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2007, 82 (2), 189-207)
D1, D6
2527 Lorenzo Cappellari
Marco Leonardi
Earnings Instability and Tenure
This paper develops a tractable empirical approach to estimate the effect of on-the-job tenure on the permanent and the transitory variance of earnings. The model is also used to evaluate earnings ...
(revised version published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2016, 118 (2), 202 - 234)
C23, J21, J31
2526 Andrew E. Clark
Ed Diener
Yannis Georgellis
Richard E. Lucas
Lags and Leads in Life Satisfaction: A Test of the Baseline Hypothesis
We look for evidence of habituation in twenty waves of German panel data: do individuals, after life and labour market events, tend to return to some baseline level of wellbeing? Although the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (529), F222–F243)
I31, J12, J13, J63, J64
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