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2488 Wiji Arulampalam
Sonia R. Bhalotra
Persistence in Infant Mortality: Evidence for the Indian States
This paper investigates the high correlation in infant mortality across siblings using micro-data for each of the fifteen major states of India. The main finding is that, in thirteen of the fifteen ...
(published in: Population Studies, 2008, 62 (2), 171-190.)
J1, C1, I1, O1
2487 William T. Dickens
Lorenz Götte
Erica L. Groshen
Steinar Holden
Julián Messina
Mark E. Schweitzer
Jarkko Turunen
Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger
How Wages Change: Micro Evidence from the International Wage Flexibility Project
How do the complex institutions involved in wage setting affect wage changes? The International Wage Flexibility Project provides new microeconomic evidence on how wages change for continuing ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2007, 21 (2), 195-214)
E3, J3, J5
2486 Björn Anders Gustafsson
Ximing Yue
Rural People’s Perception of Poverty in China
Subjective Poverty Line methodology is applied to rural China 2002 using a sample from 22 provinces. Respondents were asked two questions: one on amount of food necessary and another on amount of ...
(Revised version published as "Rural People's Perception of Income Adequacy in China" in: China Agricultural Economic Review, 2012, 4 (3), 264-280.)
I32, O15, P36
2485 Christina Gathmann
Uta Schönberg
How General Is Specific Human Capital?
Previous studies assume that labor market skills are either fully general or specific to the firm. This paper uses patterns in mobility and wages to analyze how portable specific skills are in the ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2020, 28 (1), 1 - 49)
J24, J41, J62
2484 Robert Drago
Mark Wooden
David Black
Long Work Hours: Volunteers and Conscripts
Panel data from Australia are used to study the prevalence of work hours mismatch among long hours workers and, more importantly, how that mismatch persists and changes over time, and what factors ...
(Published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2009, 47(3), 571-600. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8543.2009.00717.x)
J22
2483 Bas ter Weel
Does Manager Turnover Improve Firm Performance? New Evidence Using Information from Dutch Soccer, 1986-2004
This research examines the impact of manager turnover on firm performance using information from the Dutch soccer league in the period 1986-2004. The advantage of using sports data is that both ...
(published in: De Economist, 2011, 159 (3), 279-303)
J24
2481 Pia M. Orrenius
Madeline Zavodny
Does Immigration Affect Wages? A Look at Occupation-Level Evidence
Previous research has reached mixed conclusions about the effect of higher levels of immigration on the wages of natives. This paper reexamines this question using data from the Current Population ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (5), 757-773)
J61
2480 Marika Karanassou
Hector Sala
Dennis J. Snower
The Macroeconomics of the Labor Market: Three Fundamental Views
We distinguish and assess three fundamental views of the labor market regarding the movements in unemployment: (i) the frictionless equilibrium view; (ii) the chain reaction theory, or prolonged ...
(published in: Portuguese Economic Journal, 2007, 6 (3), 151-180)
E22, E24, J21, J30
2479 Eran Yashiv
The Beveridge Curve
The Beveridge curve depicts a negative relationship between unemployed workers and job vacancies, a robust finding across countries. The position of the economy on the curve gives an idea as to the ...
(published in: L. Blume and S. N. Durlauf (eds), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
E24, E32, J63, J64
2478 Panu Poutvaara
Public Education in an Integrated Europe: Studying to Migrate and Teaching to Stay?
This paper analyzes public provision of internationally applicable and country-specific education, when job opportunities available to those with internationally applicable education are uncertain. ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008, 110 (3), 591–608)
H52, I28, F22, J24, J61
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