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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
2028 Einat Neuman
Shoshana Neuman
Explorations of the Effect of Experience on Preferences: Two Health-Care Case Studies
The standard assumption in economic theory is that preferences are stable. In particular, they are not changed as a result of experience with the good/service/event. Behavioral scientists have ...
(revised version published as 'Explorations of the effect of experience on preferences for a health-care service' in: Journal of Socio-Economics, 2010, 39 (3), 407-419)
D01, D12, I19
2027 Gilles Saint-Paul
Equilibrium Allele Distribution in Trading Populations
This paper derives the conditions under which fitness-reducing alleles can survive in a long-run stationary equilibrium for a trading population, extending the results in Saint-Paul (2002) for ...
(published in: Natural Science, 2015, 7, 103-116.)
J1, J22
2026 Libertad González
The Effect of Benefits on Single Motherhood in Europe
This paper uses data from the eight waves of the European Community Household Panel (1994-2001) to estimate the impact of welfare benefits on the incidence of single motherhood and headship among ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (3), 393-412)
J12, J13, I38
2025 Olivier B. Bargain
Kristian Orsini
Beans for Breakfast? How Exportable Is the British Workfare Model?
Social assistance and inactivity traps have long been considered amongst the main causes of the poor employment performance of EU countries. The success of New Labour has triggered a growing interest ...
(revised version published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2006, 25, 165-198)
C25, C52, H31, J22
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
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