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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
2503 Albert Saiz
Susan M. Wachter
Immigration and the Neighborhood
What impact does immigration have on neighborhood dynamics? Within metropolitan areas, we find that housing values have grown relatively more slowly in neighborhoods of immigrant settlement. We ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2011, 3 (2), 169-188)
J61, R23, R31
2502 John Beirne
Nauro F. Campos
Educational Inputs and Outcomes Before the Transition from Communism
Conventional wisdom suggests that the stocks of human capital were one of the few positive legacies from communism. However, if factories under communism were so inefficient, why would the education ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2007, 15 (1), 57-76)
O11, J24, P27, P39
2500 Johannes Abeler
Steffen Altmann
Sebastian Kube
Matthias Wibral
Reciprocity and Payment Schemes: When Equality Is Unfair
A growing literature stresses the importance of reciprocity, especially for employment relations. In this paper, we study the interaction of different payment modes with reciprocity. In particular, ...
(substantially revised version appeared as DP No. 4262)
C92, J33, J41, M12, M52
2499 Graziella Bertocchi
Chiara Strozzi
The Age of Mass Migration: Economic and Institutional Determinants
We study the determinants of 19th century mass migration with special attention to the role of institutional factors beside standard economic fundamentals. We find that economic forces associated ...
(revised version published as "International Migration and the Role of Institutions" in: Public Choice, 2008, 137(1), 81-102)
F22, P16, N33, O15, K40, F54
2498 John Ermisch
Chiara D. Pronzato
Intra-Household Allocation of Resources: Inferences from Non-Resident Fathers’ Child Support Payments
A large proportion of divorced and separated fathers form new partnerships. The new partner’s preferences are not likely to put much weight on expenditures on the man’s children from his previous ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (527), 347-362)
D12, D13
2497 T. H. Gindling
Katherine Terrell
Minimum Wages, Globalization and Poverty in Honduras
To be competitive in the global economy, some argue that Latin American countries need to reduce or eliminate labor market regulations such as minimum wage legislation because they constrain job ...
(revised version published in: World Development, 2010, 38(6), 908-918)
J23, J31, J38
2496 Benoit Dostie
Wages, Productivity and Aging
In this article, we estimate age based wage and productivity differentials using linked employer-employee Canadian data from the Workplace and Employee Survey 1999-2003. Data on the firm side is used ...
(published in: De Economist, 2011, 159 (2), 139 - 158)
J31
2495 Ken Clark
Stephen Drinkwater
Changing Patterns of Ethnic Minority Self-Employment in Britain: Evidence from Census Microdata
The over-representation of certain ethnic minority and immigrant groups in self-employment is, in common with other developed countries, a notable feature of the UK labour market. Compared to ...
(revised version published as 'Patterns of Ethnic Self-Employment in Time and Space: Evidence from British Census Microdata' in: Small Business Economics, 2010, 34 (3), 323-338)
J23, J7
2494 Richard A. Easterlin
Anke Zimmermann
Life Satisfaction and Economic Outcomes in Germany Pre- and Post-Unification
Throughout Germany real income has trended upward since 1991, but life satisfaction has risen in the East, fallen in the West, and been fairly stable for Germany as a whole. By 1997 the initial ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008, 68 (3-4), 433-444)
D60, I31, D1, O52
2493 Peter J. Kuhn
Carol McAusland
The International Migration of Knowledge Workers: When Is Brain Drain Beneficial?
We consider the welfare effects of the emigration of workers who produce a public good (knowledge). We distinguish between the knowledge diversion and knowledge creation effects of such emigration, ...
(revised version published as 'Consumers and the brain drain: Product and process design and the gains from emigration' in: Journal of International Economics, 2009, 78 (2), 287–291)
F22, J61
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