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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
2426 Valerie Smeets
Kathryn Ierulli
Michael Gibbs
Mergers of Equals and Unequals
We examine the dynamics of post-merger organizational integration. Our basic question is whether there is evidence of conflict between employees from the two merging firms. Such conflict can arise ...
(published as 'An Empirical Analysis of Post-Merger Organizational Integration' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2016, 118 (3), 463-493)
M5, G34, J63, M14
2425 Gerard J. van den Berg
Maarten Lindeboom
Marta López
Inequality in Individual Mortality and Economic Conditions Earlier in Life
We analyze the effect of being born in a recession on the mortality rate later in life in conjunction with social class. We use individual data records from Dutch registers of birth, marriage, and ...
(published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2009, 69 (9), 1360–1367)
I12, J14, E32, N33, N13, C41
2423 Bernd Irlenbusch
Gabriele K. Ruchala
Relative Rewards within Team-Based Compensation
How to design compensation schemes to motivate team members appears to be one of the most challenging problems in the economic analysis of labour provision. We shed light on this issue by ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (2), 141-167)
C72, C91, H41, J33, L23, M52
2422 Magnus Lofstrom
Chunbei Wang
Mexican-Hispanic Self-Employment Entry: The Role of Business Start-Up Constraints
This paper examines causes of the low self-employment rates among Mexican-Hispanics by studying self-employment entry utilizing the 1996 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation ...
(published in: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2007, 613 (1), 32-46)
J15, J23
2421 Leo Kaas
Does Equal Pay Legislation Reduce Labour Market Inequality?
This paper considers a labour market model of monopsonistic competition with taste-based discrimination against minority workers to study the effect of equal pay legislation on labour market ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2009, 111(1), 51 - 71)
D43, J71, J78
2419 Alan Manning
Barbara Petrongolo
The Part-Time Pay Penalty for Women in Britain
Women in Britain who work part-time have, on average, hourly earnings about 25% less than that of women working full-time. This gap has widened greatly over the past 30 years. This paper tries to ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (526), F28-F51)
J24, J31, J62
2418 Björn Anders Gustafsson
Ding Sai
Villages where China's Ethnic Minorities Live
This paper investigates how ethnic minorities in rural China are faring compared with the ethnic majority. The village is the unit of analysis and large surveys for 2002 are used. Minority villages ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2009, 20 (2), 193-207)
J15, O12, P32
2416 Monique de Haan
Erik Plug
Estimates of the Effect of Parents’ Schooling on Children’s Schooling Using Censored and Uncensored Samples
In this paper we estimate the impact of parental schooling on child schooling, focus on the problem that children who are still in school constitute censored observations, and evaluate three ...
(published as 'Estimating intergenerational schooling mobility on censored samples: consequences and remedies' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2011, 26 (1), 151–166,)
I2, J62, C34
2414 Daniela Del Boca
Marilena Locatelli
The Determinants of Motherhood and Work Status: A Survey
In this paper we present important empirical evidence regarding recent trends in women’s participation and fertility in European countries, and provide several interpretations of the differences ...
(published as 'Motherhood and participation' in: D. Del Boca and C. Wetzels (eds.), Social Policies, Labor Markets and Motherhood, Cambridge University Press, 2008, 155-180)
J2, C3, D1, H31
2413 John S. Heywood
W. Stanley Siebert
Xiangdong Wei
Examining the Determinants of Agency Work: Do Family Friendly Practices Play a Role?
This paper uses establishment data to estimate the determinants of using agency workers. It contends that those employers with less ability to direct effort of core workers are more likely to use ...
(published as 'Estimating the Use of Agency Workers: Can Family-Friendly Practices Reduce Their Use?' in: Industrial Relations, 2011, 50 (3), 535 - 564)
J13, J81, M52
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