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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
2255 Hilmar Schneider
Arne Uhlendorff
Die Wirkung der Hartz-Reform im Bereich der beruflichen Weiterbildung
Mit der Hartz-Reform wurden auch im Bereich der beruflichen Weiterbildung grundlegende Neuerungen eingeführt. Dazu gehören vor allem die Einführung von Bildungsgutscheinen als neuem ...
(published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung/Journal for Labour Market Research, 2006, 39 (3-4), 477-490)
J64, J68, H43
2254 Michele Mosca
Marco Musella
Francesco Pastore
Relational Goods, Monitoring and Non-Pecuniary Compensations in the Nonprofit Sector: The Case of the Italian Social Services
This paper investigates the nonprofit wage gap suggesting a theoretical framework where, like in Akerlof (1984), effort correlates not only with wages, but also with non-monetary compensations. These ...
(published in: Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2007, 78 (1), 57-86)
I00, J31, L31, L84
2253 Tuomas Pekkarinen
Chris Riddell
Performance Pay and Earnings: Evidence from Personnel Records
This paper examines the effects of performance pay on earnings using linked employee-employer panel data from Finland. These payroll data contain information on the exact share of earnings obtained ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2008, 61 (3), 287 - 319)
J33, J41
2252 M. Ayhan Kose
Eswar Prasad
Marco E. Terrones
How Do Trade and Financial Integration Affect the Relationship between Growth and Volatility?
The influential work of Ramey and Ramey (1995) highlighted an empirical relationship that has now come to be regarded as conventional wisdom – that output volatility and growth are negatively ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2006, 69 (1), 176-202)
F41, F36, F15
2251 Wiji Arulampalam
Sonia R. Bhalotra
Sibling Death Clustering in India: State Dependence vs. Unobserved Heterogeneity
Data from a range of different environments indicate that the incidence of death is not randomly distributed across families but, rather, that there is a clustering of death amongst siblings. A ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 2006, 169 (4), 829-848)
J1, C1, I1, O1
2250 Rafael Lalive
Maria Alejandra Cattaneo
Social Interactions and Schooling Decisions
The aim of this paper is to study whether schooling choices are affected by social interactions. Such social interactions may be important because children enjoy spending time with other children or ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 91(3), 457 - 477)
C93, I21, I28
2249 Guido Friebel
Michael Raith
Resource Allocation and Firm Scope
We develop a theory of firm scope in which integrating two firms into one facilitates the allocation of resources, but leads to weaker incentives for effort, compared with non-integration. Our theory ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2010, 2 (2), 1-33)
D23, D82, L22, M52
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