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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
2475 Enrico Santarelli
Marco Vivarelli
Entrepreneurship and the Process of Firms’ Entry, Survival and Growth
This survey paper aims at critically discussing the recent literature on firm formation and survival and the growth of new-born firms. The basic purpose is to single out the microeconomic ...
(published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2007, 16(3), 455-488)
L10, M13
2474 John T. Addison
Paulino Teixeira
Thomas Zwick
Works Councils and the Anatomy of Wages
This paper provides the first full examination of the effect of German works councils on wages using matched employer-employee data (specifically, the LIAB for 2001). We find that works councils are ...
(published as 'German Work Councils and the Anatomy of Wages' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2010, 63(2), 247-270)
J31, J50
2473 Andrew Henley
Reza Arabsheibani
Francisco G. Carneiro
On Defining and Measuring the Informal Sector
A range of alternative empirical definitions of informal activity have been employed in the literature. Choice of definition is often dictated by data availability. Different definitions may imply ...
(published in: World Development, 2009, 37(5), 992-1003)
J21, J42
2470 René Fahr
Uwe Sunde
Did the Hartz Reforms Speed-Up Job Creation? A Macro-Evaluation Using Empirical Matching Functions
Starting in January 2003, Germany implemented the first two so-called Hartz reforms, followed by the third and fourth packages of Hartz reforms in January 2004 and January 2005, respectively. The aim ...
(revised version published in: German Economic Review, 2009, 10 (3), 284 - 316)
J6, J63, J64, J65
2469 Ralitza Dimova
François-Charles Wolff
Do Downward Private Transfers Enhance Maternal Labor Supply? Evidence from around Europe
Drawing on a theoretical model of downward private transfers with endogenous labor supply and recursive econometric models based on 2317 mother-daughter pairs from the 2003 SHARE data on 10 European ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (3), 911-933)
D64, J13, J22
2468 Rolf Aaberge
Ugo Colombino
Designing Optimal Taxes with a Microeconometric Model of Household Labour Supply
The purpose of this paper is to present an exercise where we identify optimal income tax rules under the constraint of fixed tax revenue. To this end, we estimate a microeconomic model with 78 ...
(revised version published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2013, 115 (2), 449-475)
H21, H31, J22
2467 Martin Salm
Can Subjective Mortality Expectations and Stated Preferences Explain Varying Consumption and Saving Behaviors among the Elderly?
This study investigates how subjective mortality expectations and heterogeneity in time and risk preferences affect the consumption and saving behavior of the elderly. Previous studies find that the ...
(revised version published in: Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'économique, 2010, 43(3), 1040-1057 )
D81, D91, J14
2466 Lex Borghans
Bas ter Weel
Bruce A. Weinberg
Interpersonal Styles and Labor Market Outcomes
This paper develops a framework to understand the role of interpersonal interactions in the labor market including task assignment and wages. Effective interpersonal interactions involve caring, to ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2008, 43 (4), 815-858)
J21, J24, J31
2465 Fei Peng
W. Stanley Siebert
Real Wage Cyclicality in Italy
This paper analyzes the cyclical behaviour of male real wages in Italy using the European Community Household Panel 1994-2001. We distinguish between job stayers (remaining in the same job), and ...
(published in: Labour, 22 (4), 2008, 569 - 591)
E32, J31, K31
2464 Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Jacob Benus
Evaluating Active Labor Market Programs in Romania
We evaluate the presence of effects from joining one of four active labour market programs in Romania in the late 1990s compared to the no-program state. Using rich survey data and propensity score ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2010, 38 (1), 65-84)
J68
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