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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
2571 David Autor
William Kerr
Adriana Kugler
Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States
Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity by distorting production choices. Firms facing (non-Coasean) worker dismissal costs will curtail hiring below efficient ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (521), F189 - F217)
J11, J21, J31, J61
2570 David Neumark
William Wascher
Minimum Wages and Employment
We review the burgeoning literature on the employment effects of minimum wages – in the United States and other countries – that was spurred by the new minimum wage research beginning in the early ...
(published in: Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2007, 3 (1+2), 1-182)
J23, J38
2569 Veneta Andonova
Luis Diaz-Serrano
Political Institutions and the Development of Telecommunications
It has traditionally been argued that the development of telecommunications infrastructure is dependent on the quality of countries’ political institutions. We estimate the effect of political ...
(published as 'Political Institutions and the Development of Telecommunications', Journal of Development Economics, 2009, 89, 77-83)
O1, O3
2568 Bernard M. S. van Praag
Perspectives from the Happiness Literature and the Role of New Instruments for Policy Analysis
After having been ignored for a long time by economists, happiness is becoming an object of serious research in 21st century economics. In Section 2 we sketch the present status of happiness ...
(published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2007, 53, 42-68)
B21, B41, D63, I31, I38
2567 Robert J. Oxoby
Skill Uncertainty and Social Inference
Research in psychology indicates that individuals often make inferences regarding unknown individual qualities based on potentially irrelevant (but socially observable) information. This paper ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (3), 422-427)
D63, D83, J64, J70
2566 Alicia Robb
Robert W. Fairlie
Determinants of Business Success: An Examination of Asian-Owned Businesses in the United States
Using confidential and restricted-access microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we find that Asian-owned businesses are 16.9 percent less likely to close, 20.6 percent more likely to have profits of ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (4), 827-858)
J15, L26
2565 Flavio Cunha
James J. Heckman
A New Framework for the Analysis of Inequality
This paper presents a new framework for analyzing inequality that moves beyond the anonymity postulate. We estimate the determinants of sectoral choice and the joint distributions of outcomes across ...
(published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2008, 12 (Supplement 2), 315-354)
I30, D80
2564 Robert M. Hutchens
Worker Characteristics, Job Characteristics, and Opportunities for Phased Retirement
This paper uses a telephone survey of 950 employers to examine employer-side restrictions on phased retirement. Not only did the survey collect information on establishment level policies, it also ...
(substantially revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (6), 1010-1021)
J26, J23, J14
2562 Mariacristina Piva
Marco Vivarelli
Corporate Skills as an Ex-Ante Incentive to R&D Investment
Using a balanced panel of 215 Italian manufacturing firms over the 1995-2000 period, this paper investigates the determinants of R&D investment at the level of the firm. While finding further support ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (8), 835-852)
O31
2560 Matthew D. Rablen
Andrew J. Oswald
Mortality and Immortality
It has been known for centuries that the rich and famous have longer lives than the poor and ordinary. Causality, however, remains trenchantly debated. The ideal experiment would be one in which ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27 (6), 1462-1471)
I12
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