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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
2074 Peter Berkhout
Joop Hartog
Dinand Webbink
Compensation for Earnings Risk under Worker Heterogeneity
We use two large Dutch datasets to estimate the Risk Augmented Mincer equation and test for risk compensation in expected earnings. We replicate earlier findings of a positive premium for risk and a ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2010, 76 (3), 762–790 )
J31
2073 Gabriele Cardullo
Bruno Van der Linden
Employment Subsidies and Substitutable Skills: An Equilibrium Matching Approach
The search-matching model is well suited for an equilibrium evaluation of labor market policies. When those policies are targeted on some groups, the usual juxtaposition of labor markets is however a ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2007, 53 (4), 375-404)
E24, J3, J41, J64, J65, J68
2070 Andrew J. Oswald
An Examination of the Reliability of Prestigious Scholarly Journals: Evidence and Implications for Decision-makers
In universities all over the world, hiring and promotion committees regularly hear the argument: “this is important work because it is about to appear in prestigious journal X”. Moreover, those who ...
(published in: Economica, 2007, 74 (293), 21-31)
A11, O3
2069 Holger Bonin
Hilmar Schneider
Wirksamkeit der Förderung der beruflichen Weiterbildung vor und nach den Hartz-Reformen
Dieser Beitrag analysiert die Wirksamkeit der Förderung beruflicher Weiterbildung im Rah-men der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik vor und nach den Hartz-Reformen. Ergebnisse der bei flächendeckenden ...
(published in: Wirtschaftspolitische Blätter, 2006, 53 (2), 155-165)
J68, H43, D61
2068 Paul Frijters
Bob Gregory
From Golden Age to Golden Age: Australia's "Great Leap Forward"?
The twenty-five years after WW 2 witnessed strong labour market institutions and beneficial labour market outcomes – high wage growth and integration of low-skilled immigrants. Then came the macro ...
(published in: The Economic Record, 82 (257) 2006, 207-224)
J0, D6, E6, L5, O3
2066 Dennis J. Snower
Christian Merkl
The Caring Hand that Cripples: The East German Labor Market After Reunification (Detailed Version)
The East German labor market has hardly made any progress since German reunification, despite massive migration flows and support from the West. We argue that East Germany is in trouble precisely ...
(short version published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (2), 375-382)
E24, J3, P2
2065 Winfried Koeniger
Marco Leonardi
Capital Deepening and Wage Differentials: Germany vs. US
Capital deepening may affect the evolution of the wage differential between skilled and unskilled workers differently in countries with different labor market institutions. If labor market ...
(revised version published in: Economic Policy, 2007, 22 (49), 71-116)
E22, E24, J31, J64
2064 Alois Stutzer
Lorenz Götte
Michael Zehnder
Active Decisions and Pro-social Behavior: A Field Experiment on Blood Donation
In this paper, we propose a decision framework where people are individually asked to either actively consent or dissent to some pro-social behavior. We hypothesize that confronting individuals with ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2011, 121 (556), 476-493)
C93, D64, I18
2063 Janet Currie
Erdal Tekin
Does Child Abuse Cause Crime?
Child maltreatment, which includes both child abuse and child neglect, is a major social problem. This paper focuses on measuring the effects of child maltreatment on crime using data from the ...
(revised version published as 'Understanding the Cycle: Childhood Maltreatment and Future Crime?' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2012, 47 (2), 509-549)
I1, K4
2062 Oriana Bandiera
Iwan Barankay
Imran Rasul
Incentives for Managers and Inequality Among Workers: Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment
We present evidence from a firm level experiment in which we engineered an exogenous change in managerial compensation from fixed wages to performance pay based on the average productivity of ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007, 122 (2), 729-773)
J33, M52
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