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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
2269 Jamie Goodwin-White
Dispersion or Concentration for the 1.5 Generation? Destination Choices of the Children of Immigrants in the US
This paper examines determinants of inter-metropolitan destination choice for foreign-born and 1.5 generation adult children of immigrants in the US. An immigrant concentration-weighted accessibility ...
(published in: Population, Space and Place, 2007, 13 (5), 313 - 331)
J61
2268 Alison L. Booth
Margi Wood
Back-to-front Down-under? Part-time/Full-time Wage Differentials in Australia
In 2003, part-time employment in Australia accounted for over 42% of the Australian female workforce, nearly 17% of the male workforce, and represented 28% of total employment. Of the OECD countries, ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2008, 47 (1), 114-135)
J16, J22, J31
2267 Sourafel Girma
Yundan Gong
Holger Görg
Can You Teach Old Dragons New Tricks? FDI and Innovation Activity in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by Chinese State owned enterprises (SOEs). We use a comprehensive firm level panel data ...
(revised version published as 'What determines innovation activity in Chinese state-owned enterprises? The role of foreign direct investment' in: World Development, 2009, 37 (4), 866-873)
F23, O31
2266 Jörgen Hansen
Magnus Lofstrom
Xuelin Zhang
State Dependence in Canadian Welfare Participation
This paper analyzes transitions into and out-of Social Assistance in Canada. We estimate a dynamic Probit model, controlling for endogenous initial conditions and unobserved heterogeneity, using ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2014, 39, 81-105)
I30, I38, J18
2265 Marika Karanassou
Hector Sala
Dennis J. Snower
Phillips Curves and Unemployment Dynamics: A Critique and a Holistic Perspective
The conventional wisdom that inflation and unemployment are unrelated in the long-run implies that these phenomena can be analysed by separate branches of economics. The macro literature tries to ...
(published: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2010, 24 (1), 1-51)
E24, E31
2264 Olmo Silva
The Jack-of-All-Trades Entrepreneur: Innate Talent or Acquired Skill?
Cross-sectional tests of the Jack-of-All-Trades theory of entrepreneurship invariably conclude that accumulation of balanced skill-mix across different fields of expertise stimulates ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2007, 97 (2), 118-123)
M13, J23, J24
2261 Jörgen Hansen
Magnus Lofstrom
Immigrant-Native Differences in Welfare Participation: The Role of Entry and Exit Rates
This paper analyzes differences in welfare transitions between natives and immigrants in Sweden using a large representative panel data set, LINDA, for the years 1991 to 2001. The data contains ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2011, 50 (3), 412 - 442)
I30, I38, J15, J18, J61
2259 Thomas K. Bauer
Silja Göhlmann
Mathias Sinning
Gender Differences in Smoking Behavior
This paper investigates gender differences in smoking behavior using data from the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP). We develop a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method for count data models which ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2007, 16 (9), 895-909)
C25, I12
2258 Sumon K. Bhaumik
Ralitza Dimova
Jeffrey B. Nugent
Pulls, Pushes and Entitlement Failures in Labor Markets: Does the State of Development Matter?
This study adapts a relatively novel model of off-farm labor supply to the changing conditions of Bulgaria during the 1990s. The model’s parameters are estimated separately for each of the three ...
(published as 'Off-farm Labour Supply and Labour Markets in Rapidly Changing Circumstances: Bulgaria during Transition' in: Economic Systems, 2011, 35 (3), 378 - 389)
J2, P23, P36, O13, Q12
2256 Michael P. Pflüger
Jens Suedekum
Towards a Unifying Approach of the 'New Economic Geography'
Models of the new economic geography share a number of common conclusions, but also exhibit notable differences, in particular with respect to the shape of the location pattern and the efficiency of ...
(published in revised form as 'A synthesis of footloose-entrepreneur new economic geography models: when is agglomeration smooth and easily reversible?' in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2008, 8 (1), 39-54)
R12, R50, F12, F15, F22
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