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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
2370 Christian Belzil
The Return to Schooling in Structural Dynamic Models: A Survey
This paper contains a survey of the recent literature devoted to the returns to schooling within a dynamic structural framework. I present a historical perspective on the evolution of the literature, ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2007, 51 (5), 1059-1105)
J2, J3
2369 Philippe Lemistre
Nicolas Moreau
Spatial Mobility and Returns to Education: Some Evidence from a Sample of French Youth
The purpose of this article is to reevaluate the returns to geographic mobility and to the level of education, taking into account the interaction between these two variables. We have at our disposal ...
(published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2009, 49 (1), 149-176)
J31, J61, I21
2367 Gerd Muehlheusser
Regulating Damage Clauses in (Labor) Contracts
We analyze the role of damage clauses in labor contracts using a model in which a worker may want to terminate his current employment relationship and work for another firm. We show that the initial ...
(published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2007, 163 (4), 531-551)
K12, K31, M12
2366 Leif Danziger
Extension of Labor Contracts and Optimal Backpay
This paper explains why a union and a firm might settle on a contract duration that may later be extended and characterizes the optimal backpay for the holdout period. It is shown that the choice ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (1), 18-36)
J41
2365 Annette Bergemann
Gerard J. van den Berg
Active Labor Market Policy Effects for Women in Europe: A Survey
We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labor market policies on individual labor market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European ...
(published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2008, 91/92, 385-408)
J08, J22, J16, J64, J68, J78
2363 Michael Lechner
Conny Wunsch
Active Labour Market Policy in East Germany: Waiting for the Economy to Take Off
We investigate the effects of the most important East German active labour market programmes on the labour market outcomes of their participants. The analysis is based on a large and informative ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2009, 17 (4), 661-702)
J68
2362 Jeffrey M. Hirsch
Barry Hirsch
The Rise and Fall of Private Sector Unionism: What Next for the NLRA?
In this Article, we ask whether the National Labor Relations Act, enacted over 70 years ago, can remain relevant in a competitive economy where nonunion employer discretion is the dominant form of ...
(published in: Florida State University Law Review, 2007, 34 (4), 1133-1180)
K31, J5, J88
2361 Guy Navon
Ilan Tojerow
The Effects of Rent-Sharing on the Gender Wage Gap in the Israeli Manufacturing Sector
This paper analyzes the impact of workplace characteristics on individual wages based on a unique cross-section matched employer-employee dataset for the Israeli private manufacturing sector in 1995; ...
(published in: Labour, 2013, 27 (3), 331-349)
D31, J16, J31, J70
2360 Leif Danziger
The Elasticity of Labor Demand and the Optimal Minimum Wage
Contrary to widespread belief, we show that low-pay workers might not generally prefer that the minimum wage rate be increased to a level where the labor demand is unitary elastic. Rather, there ...
(Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22, (3), 757-772)
J38
2359 Richard Akresh
Philip Verwimp
Civil War, Crop Failure, and the Health Status of Young Children
Economic shocks at birth have lasting impacts on children’s health several years after the shock. We calculate height for age z-scores for children under age five using data from a Rwandan nationally ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2011, 59(4), 777-810)
I12, J13, O12, O15
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