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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
2461 Xin Meng
Dominique Meurs
Intermarriage, Language, and Economic Assimilation Process: A Case Study of France
Lack of economic assimilation of immigrants often results in social and political unrest of a society. The increased desire to understand better the nature of the assimilation process of immigrants ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (1-2), 127-144)
J61, J12
2459 Marcello Estevão
Filipa Sa
Are the French Happy with the 35-Hour Workweek?
Legally mandated reductions in the workweek can be either a constraint on individuals’ choice or a tool to coordinate individuals’ preferences for lower work hours. We confront these two hypotheses ...
(revised version published as 'The 35-hour workweek in France: Straightjacket or welfare improvement? ' in: Economic Policy, 2008, 23 (55), 417-463)
E24, J22, C21
2458 John F. Geweke
Joel L. Horowitz
M. Hashem Pesaran
Econometrics: A Bird's Eye View
As a unified discipline, econometrics is still relatively young and has been transforming and expanding very rapidly over the past few decades. Major advances have taken place in the analysis of ...
(published in: Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume (eds.), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition, Palgrave MacMillan: 2008, 609-642)
C1, C2, C3, C4, C5
2457 Alan Barrett
Yvonne McCarthy
Immigrants in a Booming Economy: Analysing their Earnings and Welfare Dependence
Ireland’s exceptional economic growth in recent years has led to an influx of immigrants. Given the favourable economic climate into which these immigrants are arriving, it is interesting to ask how ...
(published in: Labour, 2007, 21(4), 789-808)
J61
2456 Michal Myck
Leszek Morawski
Jerzy Mycielski
Employment Fluctuations and Dynamics of the Aggregate Average Wage in Poland 1996-2003
The aggregate average wage is often used as an indicator of economic performance and welfare, and as such often serves as a benchmark for changes in the generosity of public transfers and for wage ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2007, 15(4), 759-799)
E24, J21, J31
2455 Eran Yashiv
U.S. Labor Market Dynamics Revisited
The picture of U.S. labor market dynamics is opaque. Empirical studies of U.S. gross worker flows have yielded contradictory findings, and it is not easy to get a sense of the key moments of the ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2007, 109 (4), 779 - 806)
E24, J63, J64
2454 Pierre-André Chiappori
Murat Iyigun
Yoram Weiss
Investment in Schooling and the Marriage Market
We present a model with pre-marital schooling investment, endogenous marital matching and spousal specialization in homework and market production. Investment in schooling raises ages and generates ...
(published in American Economic Review, 2009, 99 (5), 1689-1713)
C78, D61, D70
2453 Yundan Gong
Holger Görg
Sara Maioli
Employment Effects of Privatisation and Foreign Acquisition of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
This paper investigates the effects of domestic privatisation or foreign acquisition of Chinese State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) on employment growth, using firm level data for China and a combination ...
(published in: International Journal of the Economics of Business, 2007, 14(2), 197-214)
P2, F2
2451 Kelly Shue
Erzo F.P. Luttmer
Who Misvotes? The Effect of Differential Cognition Costs on Election Outcomes
If voters are fully rational and have negligible cognition costs, ballot layout should not affect election outcomes. In this paper, we explore deviations from rational voting using quasi-random ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2009, 1(1), 229-257)
D01, D72, D83, J10
2450 John C. Haltiwanger
Stefano Scarpetta
Helena Schweiger
Assessing Job Flows across Countries: The Role of Industry, Firm Size and Regulations
This paper reviews the process of job creation and destruction across a sample of 16 industrial and emerging economies over the past decade. It exploits a harmonized firm-level data-set drawn from ...
(published as 'Cross country differences in job reallocation: The role of industry, firm size and regulations' in: Labour Economics, 2014, 26, 11-25)
J23, J53, K31
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