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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
2412 Spyros Konstantopoulos
The Power of the Test in Three-Level Designs
Field experiments that involve nested structures may assign treatment conditions either to entire groups (such as classrooms or schools), or individuals within groups (such as students). Since field ...
(published in: Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2008, 1(1), 1-23)
C9
2411 Thomas Siedler
Family and Politics: Does Parental Unemployment Cause Right-Wing Extremism?
Recent years have witnessed a rise in right-wing extremism among German youth and young adults. This paper investigates the extent to which the experience of parental unemployment during childhood ...
(revised version published as 'Parental unemployment and young people's extreme right-wing party affinity: evidence from panel data' in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 2011, 174 (3), 737-758)
C23, D72, J6, P16
2410 Stephen Drinkwater
John Eade
Michal Garapich
Poles Apart? EU Enlargement and the Labour Market Outcomes of Immigrants in the UK
The UK was one of only three countries to allow migrants from accession countries to enter their labour markets more or less without restriction following EU enlargement in May 2004. Therefore, it is ...
(published in: International Migration, 2009, 47 (1), 161-190)
J61, F22
2409 Jakob R. Munch
Jan Rose Skaksen
Human Capital and Wages in Exporting Firms
This paper studies the link between a firm’s education level, export performance and wages of its workers. We argue that firms may escape intense competition in international markets by using high ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2008, 75 (2), 363-372)
J30, F10, I20
2408 Vicente Cuñat
Maria Guadalupe
Globalization and the Provision of Incentives Inside the Firm: The Effect of Foreign Competition
This paper studies the effect of changes in foreign competition on the incentives faced by U.S. managers in the form of wage structures, promotion profiles, and job turnover. We use a panel of ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2009, 27 (2), 179-212 )
M52, L1, J31
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