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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
2007 Catherine Weinberger
Peter J. Kuhn
The Narrowing of the U.S. Gender Earnings Gap, 1959-1999: A Cohort-Based Analysis
Using Census and Current Population Survey data spanning 1959 through 1999, we assess the relative contributions of two factors to the decline in the gender wage gap: changes across cohorts in the ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2010, 63 (3), 384-406)
J7
2006 Fabien Postel-Vinay
Hélène Turon
On-the-Job Search, Productivity Shocks and the Individual Earnings Process
Individual labor earnings observed in worker panel data have complex, highly persistent dynamics. We investigate the capacity of a structural job search model with i.i.d. productivity shocks to ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2010, 51 (3), 599 - 629)
J41, J31
2005 Daniela Del Boca
Christopher Flinn
Modes of Spousal Interaction and the Labor Market Environment
We formulate a model of household behavior in which cooperation is costly and in which these costs vary across households. Some households rationally decide to behave noncooperatively, which in our ...
(published as "Household Behavior and the Marriage Market" in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2014, 150, 137-155)
C79, D19, J22
2004 Laurens Cherchye
Frederic Vermeulen
Nonparametric Analysis of Household Labor Supply: Goodness-of-Fit and Power of the Unitary and the Collective Model
We compare the empirical performance of unitary and collective labor supply models, using representative data from the Dutch DNB Household Survey. We conduct a nonparametric analysis that avoids the ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008, 90 (2), 267-274)
C14, D12, J22
2003 Niny Khor
John H. Pencavel
Income Mobility of Individuals in China and the United States
Though much has been written about annual income inequality in China, little research has been conducted on longer run measures of income inequality and on income mobility. This paper compares income ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2006, 14 (3), 417-458 )
D31, D63, O15
2001 Thomas Dohmen
Armin Falk
Performance Pay and Multi-dimensional Sorting: Productivity, Preferences and Gender
This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first step we elicit subjects' productivity levels. Subjects then face the choice ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (2), 556-590)
M52, M55, J00, J3, J33, J31, J16, J22, J24 C91, D81
2000 John T. Addison
Claus Schnabel
Joachim Wagner
The (Parlous) State of German Unions
This paper traces the profound decline in German unionism over the course of the last three decades. Today just one in five workers is a union member, and it is now moot whether this degree of ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2007, 28 (1), 3-18)
J51
1999 Holger Bonin
Amelie F. Constant
Konstantinos Tatsiramos
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes
This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2009, 16 (15), 1581-1586)
D1, D81, F22, J15, J16, J31, J62, J82
1998 Subhayu Bandyopadhyay
Cletus C. Coughlin
Howard J. Wall
Ethnic Networks and U.S. Exports
This paper provides new estimates of the effects of ethnic network on U.S. exports. In line with recent research, our dataset is a panel of exports from U.S. states to 29 foreign countries. Our ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, 2008, 16 (1), 199-213)
F10, R10
1997 Ioan-Sebastian Buhai
Coen Teulings
Tenure Profiles and Efficient Separation in a Stochastic Productivity Model
This paper provides a new way of analyzing tenure profiles in wages, by modelling simultaneously the evolution of wages and the distribution of tenures. We develop a theoretical model based on ...
(published in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2014, 32 (2), 245-258)
C51, C52, J63
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