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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
1965 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Time to Eat: Household Production under Increasing Income Inequality
Eating requires the food materials that make up meals and also time devoted to buying food, preparing meals and eating them, and cleaning up afterwards. Using time-diary and expenditure data for the ...
(published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2007, 89 (4), 852-863; excerpts also publishd in Economics Letters, 2008, 98 (1), 31-34)
J22, Q11
1964 Simon Luechinger
Stephan Meier
Alois Stutzer
Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction
The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe ...
(published in: Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 2008, 24 (2), 476-488)
D72, D73, I31, J30, J45, K42, H11, H83
1963 René Böheim
Ulrike Muehlberger
Dependent Forms of Self-employment in the UK: Identifying Workers on the Border between Employment and Self-employment
We analyse the characteristics of workers who provide work on the basis of a civil or commercial contract, but who are dependent on or integrated into the firm for which they work. We argue that ...
(published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung/Journal for Labour Market Research, 2009, 42 (2), 182-95)
K31, J21, L22
1962 Charlotte Christiansen
Juanna Schrøter Joensen
Helena Skyt Nielsen
The Risk-Return Trade-Off in Human Capital Investment
In this paper we analyze investments in human capital assets in a way which is standard for financial assets, but not (yet) for human capital assets. We study mean-variance plots of human capital ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (6), 971-986)
I21, J24
1961 J. David Brown
John S. Earle
Vladimir Gimpelson
Rostislav Kapeliushnikov
Hartmut Lehmann
Álmos Telegdy
Irina Vantu
Ruxandra Visan
Alexandru Voicu
Nonstandard Forms and Measures of Employment and Unemployment in Transition: A Comparative Study of Estonia, Romania, and Russia
Studies of transition economy labor markets have typically relied on standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics. This paper analyzes microdata on detailed labor force survey ...
(published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2006, 48 (3), 435-457)
C81, J21, J64, P23
1960 Winfried Koeniger
Julien Prat
Employment Protection, Product Market Regulation and Firm Selection
This paper analyzes the effect of labor and product market regulation in a dynamic stochastic equilibrium with search frictions. Modeling multiple-worker firms allows us to distinguish between the ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (521), F302 - F332)
E24, J63, J64, J65
1959 Stephen P. Jenkins
John Micklewright
Sylke V. Schnepf
Social Segregation in Secondary Schools: How Does England Compare with Other Countries?
We provide new evidence about the degree of social segregation in England’s secondary schools, employing a cross-national perspective. Analysis is based on data for 27 rich industrialised countries ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Education, 2008, 34(1), 21-38)
D39, I21, I39
1958 Elizabeth Brainerd
Reassessing the Standard of Living in the Soviet Union: An Analysis Using Archival and Anthropometric Data
Both Western and Soviet estimates of GNP growth in the USSR indicate that GNP per capita grew in every decade – sometimes rapidly – from 1928 to 1985. While this measure suggests that the standard of ...
(published in: Journal of Economic History, 2010, 70 (1), 83 - 117)
P23, P36, N34
1957 Abigail Wozniak
Product Markets and Paychecks: Deregulation's Effect on the Compensation Structure in Banking
This paper asks how deregulation intended to promote competition in the commercial banking industry affected the compensation structure for banking employees. Using establishment-based data from the ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 60 (2), 246-267)
J31, L11
1955 Manuela Angelucci
Giacomo De Giorgi
Indirect Effects of an Aid Program: The Case of Progresa and Consumption
Aid programs in developing countries are likely to affect all households living in the treated areas, both eligible and non-eligible ones. Studies that focus on the treatment effect on the treated ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2009, 99(1), 486-508)
E21, H43, I38, O12, O17
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