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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
2110 Jakob R. Munch
Michael Rosholm
Michael Svarer
Home Ownership, Job Duration and Wages
We investigate the impact of home ownership on individual job mobility and wages in Denmark. We find that home ownership has a negative impact on job-to-job mobility both in terms of transition into ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2008, 63(1), 130-145)
J6, R2
2109 Henrik Winterhager
Anja Heinze
Alexander Spermann
Deregulating Job Placement in Europe: A Microeconometric Evaluation of an Innovative Voucher Scheme in Germany
Job placement vouchers can be regarded as a tool to spur competition between public and private job placement activities. The German government launched this instrument in order to end the public ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2006, 13 (4), 505-517)
J68, H25
2106 Jeffrey P. Carpenter
Samuel Bowles
Herbert Gintis
Mutual Monitoring in Teams: Theory and Experimental Evidence on the Importance of Reciprocity
Monitoring by peers is often an effective means of attenuating incentive problems. Most explanations of the efficacy of mutual monitoring rely either on small group size or on a version of the Folk ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 71(2), 221-232)
C92, H41, J41, J54, Z13
2105 Alessio J. G. Brown
Mike Orszag
Dennis J. Snower
Unemployment Accounts and Employment Incentives
We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment accounts (UA) system. Under the UA system, employed people are required to make ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2008, 24 (3), 587-604)
I38, J22, J32, J38, J64, J65, J68
2104 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Sara de la Rica
Labor Market Assimilation of Recent Immigrants in Spain
This paper provides a preliminary analysis of the employment and occupational assimilation of recent immigrant waves to the Spanish labor market as their residencies lengthen. Using Spanish data from ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2007, 45 (2), 257-285)
J61
2103 Andrew J. Oswald
Nattavudh Powdthavee
Daughters and Left-Wing Voting
This paper provides evidence that daughters make people more left-wing. Having sons, by contrast, makes them more right-wing. Parents, politicians and voters are probably not aware of this phenomenon ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 92 (2), 213-227)
D1, D72, H1, J7
2102 Anabela Carneiro
Pedro Portugal
Market Power, Dismissal Threat and Rent Sharing: The Role of Insider and Outsider Forces in Wage Bargaining
One of the predictions of the insider-outsider theory is that wages will be higher in sectors (firms) with high labor adjustment costs/high turnover costs. This prediction is tested empirically in ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2008, 29 (1), 30-47)
J30, J31
2101 Magnus Lofstrom
Chunbei Wang
Hispanic Self-Employment: A Dynamic Analysis of Business Ownership
This paper analyzes causes of the low self-employment rates among Hispanics, which are nearly half of non-Hispanic white self-employment rates. Relatively little is known of the reason for the lower ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Mexican- American Self-Employment : A Dynamic Analysis of Business Ownership' in: Research in Labor Economics, 2009, 29, 197 - 227)
J15, J23
2100 Lena Jacobi
Jochen Kluve
Before and After the Hartz Reforms: The Performance of Active Labour Market Policy in Germany
Having faced high unemployment rates for more than a decade, the German government implemented a comprehensive set of labour market reforms during the period 2003-2005. This paper describes the ...
(published in: Journal for Labour Market Research / Zeitschrift für Arbeitsmarktforschung, 2007, 40 (1), 45-64)
J0, J68, J88
2099 Reinhold Kosfeld
Christian Dreger
Hans-Friedrich Eckey
On the Stability of the German Beveridge Curve: A Spatial Econometric Perspective
In this paper, the framework of the aggregated Beveridge curve is used to investigate the effectiveness of the job matching process using German regional labour market data. For a fixed matching ...
(published in: Annals of Regional Science, 2008, 42, 967-986)
C21, C23, E24, E32
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