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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
2024 Mikael Carlsson
Stefan Eriksson
Nils Gottfries
Testing Theories of Job Creation: Does Supply Create Its Own Demand?
How well do alternative labor market theories explain variations in net job creation? According to search-matching theory, job creation in a firm should depend on the availability of workers ...
(revised version published as 'Product market imperfections and employment dynamics' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2013, 65 (2), 447-470)
E24, J23, J64
2023 Libertad González
Tarja Viitanen
The Effect of Divorce Laws on Divorce Rates in Europe
This paper analyzes a panel of 18 European countries spanning from 1950 to 2003 to examine the extent to which the legal reforms leading to "easier divorce" that took place during the second half of ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2009, 53 (2), 127-138)
J12, J18, K3
2022 Katarina Keller
Panu Poutvaara
Andreas Wagener
Military Draft and Economic Growth in OECD Countries
Economic theory predicts that military conscription is associated with static inefficiencies as well as with dynamic distortions of the accumulation of human and physical capital. Relative to an ...
(published in: Defense and Peace Economics, 2009, 20 (5), 373-393)
H20, H57, J22, C68
2021 Lex Borghans
Bart H.H. Golsteyn
Skill Transferability, Regret and Mobility
After graduation many students start working in sectors not related to their field of study or participate in training targeted at work in other sectors. In this paper, we look at mobility ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2007, 39 (13), 1663-1678)
J24, J44, J62
2020 Lorenz Götte
David B. Huffman
Stephan Meier
The Impact of Group Membership on Cooperation and Norm Enforcement: Evidence using Random Assignment to Real Social Groups
Due to incomplete contracts, efficiency of an organization depends on willingness of individuals to take non-selfish actions, e.g., cooperate when there is no incentive to do so, or punish ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (2), 212-216)
D01, D23, J00
2019 Simon Luechinger
Alois Stutzer
Rainer Winkelmann
The Happiness Gains from Sorting and Matching in the Labor Market
Sorting of people on the labor market not only assures the most productive use of valuable skills but also generates individual utility gains if people experience an optimal match between job ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2010, 30, 233–251)
D60, I31, J24, J45
2018 Jochen Kluve
The Effectiveness of European Active Labor Market Policy
Measures of Active Labor Market Policy are widely used in European countries, but despite many econometric evaluation studies no conclusive cross-country evidence exists regarding "what program works ...
(revised version published as 'The effectiveness of European active labor market programs' in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (6), 904-918)
J00, J68
2017 Wolfgang Franz
Friedhelm Pfeiffer
Reasons for Wage Rigidity in Germany
This study investigates institutional and economic reasons for downward wage rigidity regarding three occupational skill groups. Based on a survey of 801 firms in Germany and an econometric analysis, ...
(published in: Labour, 2006, 20 (2), 255-284)
J41, J51, K31
2016 David G. Blanchflower
A Cross-Country Study of Union Membership
This paper examines changes in unionization that have occurred over the last decade or so using individual level micro data on twenty seven of the thirty OECD countries, with particular emphasis on ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2007, 45 (1), 1-28)
J3
2015 Eric J. Johnson
Simon Gächter
Andreas Herrmann
Exploring the Nature of Loss Aversion
Loss aversion, the fact that losses have a greater impact than gains, is a fundamental property of behavioral accounts of choice. In this paper, we suggest four possible characterizations of the ...
(revised version published as 'Moderating loss aversion: loss aversion has moderators, but reports of its death are greatly exaggerated' in: Journal of Consumer Psychology, 2020, 30 (3), 407-428)
C90, M31, D11
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