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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
2055 Hilmar Schneider
Werner Eichhorst
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Konzentration statt Verzettelung: Die deutsche Arbeitsmarktpolitik am Scheideweg
The German labor market reforms seem to be on the right track. However, they need to be adjusted especially on the organizational side to make them more effective. The labor market instruments can be ...
(published in: Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 2006, 7 (3), 379-397)
J65, J68, J69
2054 Matthias Kräkel
Dirk Sliwka
Should You Allow Your Agent to Become Your Competitor? On Non-Compete Agreements in Employment Contracts
We discuss a principal-agent model in which the principal has the opportunity to include a non-compete agreement in the employment contract. We show that not imposing such an agreement can be ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2009, 50(1), 117-141)
D21, D86, J3, K1, M5
2052 Herbert Brücker
Cécily Defoort
The (Self-)Selection of International Migrants Reconsidered: Theory and New Evidence
This paper reconsiders the (self-)selection of international migrants. In an extended Roy-model we analyse the factors which affect the selection bias of migrants. In particular, we find that ...
(published in: Journal of International Manpower, 2009, 30 (7), 742-764.)
F22
2051 Olof Aslund
John Östh
Yves Zenou
How Important Is Access to Jobs? Old Question – Improved Answer
We study the impact of job proximity on individual employment and earnings. The analysis exploits a Swedish refugee dispersal policy to get exogenous variation in individual locations. Using very ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2010, 10(3), 389-422)
J15, J18, R23
2049 Herbert Brücker
Philipp J. H. Schröder
International Migration with Heterogeneous Agents: Theory and Evidence
International migration is characterized by two puzzling facts: First, only a small share of the population tends to migrate although substantial and persisting income differences across countries ...
(published in: World Economy , 2012, 35 (2), 152-182.)
F22, C23, C53
2048 Naci Mocan
Erdal Tekin
Ugly Criminals
Using data from three waves of Add Health we find that being very attractive reduces a young adult's (ages 18-26) propensity for criminal activity and being unattractive increases it for a number of ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 92 (1), 15 - 30)
I1, I2, K4, J2, J3
2047 Russell Davidson
Jean-Yves Duclos
Testing for Restricted Stochastic Dominance
Asymptotic and bootstrap tests are studied for testing whether there is a relation of stochastic dominance between two distributions. These tests have a null hypothesis of nondominance, with the ...
(published in: Econometric Review, 2012, 32 (1), 84 - 125)
C10, C12, C15, I32
2046 Eleonora Patacchini
Yves Zenou
Racial Identity and Education
We investigate the sources of differences in school performance between students of different races by focusing on identity issues. We find that having a higher percentage of same-race friends has a ...
(published in: Social Networks, 2016, 44, 85-94.)
A14, I21, J15, J24
2045 Julián Messina
Giovanna Vallanti
Job Flow Dynamics and Firing Restrictions: Evidence from Europe
We exploit homogeneous firm level data of manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors to study the impact of firing restrictions on job flow dynamics across 14 European countries. We find that more ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (521), F279 - F301)
J23, J63, J68
2044 Simonetta Longhi
Peter Nijkamp
Jacques Poot
The Impact of Immigration on the Employment of Natives in Regional Labour Markets: A Meta-Analysis
Immigration is a phenomenon of growing significance in many countries. Increasing social tensions are leading to political pressure to limit a further influx of foreign-born persons on the grounds ...
(published in: J. Poot, B. Waldorf, and L. van Wissen (eds.), Migration and Human Capital, Edward Elgar, 2008)
F22, J61
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