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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
2546 Steffen Habermalz
Kristen Monaco
A Post-Deregulation Analysis of Wages in U.S. Freight Transportation
After a period of regulatory changes in the early 1980s we are faced with “new” freight transportation labor markets in the U.S. Using data from the 1984-1999 Current Population Survey, we examine ...
(published in: International Journal of Transport Economics, 34 (1), 2007)
J31, L92
2545 David Neumark
Junfu Zhang
Stephen Ciccarella
The Effects of Wal-Mart on Local Labor Markets
We estimate the effects of Wal-Mart stores on county-level retail employment and earnings, accounting for endogeneity of the location and timing of Wal-Mart openings that most likely biases the ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2008, 63(2), 405-430)
J21, R12
2543 Tue Gorgens
Xin Meng
Rhema Vaithianathan
Stunting and Selection Effects of Famine: A Case Study of the Great Chinese Famine
The Great Chinese Famine of 1959-1961 is puzzling, since despite the high death rates, there is no discernable diminution in height amongst the majority of cohorts who were exposed to the famine in ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 97 (1), 99 - 111)
C33, I12, N95, O15
2542 Sascha O. Becker
Marco Caliendo
mhbounds - Sensitivity Analysis for Average Treatment Effects
Matching has become a popular approach to estimate average treatment effects. It is based on the conditional independence or unconfoundedness assumption. Checking the sensitivity of the estimated ...
(published in: Stata Journal, 2007, 7(1), 71-83)
C40
2541 Benno Torgler
Friedrich Schneider
The Impact of Tax Morale and Institutional Quality on the Shadow Economy
This paper analyses how tax morale and countries’ institutional quality affect the shadow economy, controlling in a multivariate analysis for a variety of potential factors. The literature strongly ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2009, 30 (2), 228-245)
D73, D78, H2, H26, O17, O5
2540 L. Rachel Ngai
Christopher A. Pissarides
Trends in Hours and Economic Growth
We study long-run trends in market hours of work and employment shifts across economic sectors driven by uneven TFP growth in market and home production. We focus on the substitutions between market ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2008, 11 (2), 239-256)
J21, J22, O14, O41
2539 James Banks
Michael Marmot
Zoë Oldfield
James P. Smith
The SES Health Gradient on Both Sides of the Atlantic
Looking across many diseases, average health among mature men is much worse in America compared to England. Second, there exists a steep negative health gradient for men in both countries where men ...
(published in: David Wise (ed.), Developments in the Economics of Aging, University of Chicago Press, pp. 359-406, 2009)
I10
2538 Timothy J. Hatton
Andrew Leigh
Immigrants Assimilate as Communities, Not Just as Individuals
There is a large econometric literature that examines the economic assimilation of immigrants in the United States and elsewhere. On the whole immigrants are seen as atomistic individuals ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (2), 389-419)
F2, J3, J6
2537 Holger Bonin
Amelie F. Constant
Konstantinos Tatsiramos
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity
The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We ...
(substantially revised version published in: IZA Journal of Migration , 2012, 1, Article 5 )
D1, D81, F22, J15, J16, J31, J62, J82
2535 Laura V Zimmermann
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Amelie F. Constant
Ethnic Self-Identification of First-Generation Immigrants
This paper uses the concept of ethnic self-identification of immigrants in a two-dimensional framework. It acknowledges the fact that attachments to the home and the host country are not necessarily ...
(published in: International Migration Review, 2007, 41 (3), 769-781)
F22, J15, J16, Z10
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