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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
1892 Subhayu Bandyopadhyay
Howard J. Wall
Oligopoly and Outsourcing
With outsourcing comes a perceived tension between the competitive pressures faced by domestic firms and the effect that outsourcing has on domestic workers. To address this tension, we present a ...
(published in: Economics and Politics, 2007, 19 (2), 219-234)
F1, F2, J3
1891 Joachim R. Frick
Jan Goebel
Regional Income Stratification in Unified Germany Using a Gini Decomposition Approach
This paper delivers new insights into the development of income inequality and regional stratification in Germany after unification using a new method for detecting social stratification by a ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2008, 42(4), 555-577)
C81, D31, D63
1890 Lorenz Götte
David B. Huffman
Affect as a Source of Motivation in the Workplace: A New Model of Labor Supply, and New Field Evidence on Income Targeting and the Goal Gradient
In this chapter we propose a new, dual-process model of labor supply, which incorporates both cognitive and affective aspects of decision-making. Consistent with evidence from neuroscience, the ...
(published in: Vohs, K.D, Baumeister, R.F; Loewenstein, G. (eds.): Do emotions help or hurt decision making? A Hedgefoxian Perspective, New York, Sage, 2007)
J22, L2, B49
1889 Amihai Glazer
Vesa Kanniainen
Panu Poutvaara
Income Taxes, Property Values and Migration
We consider taxation by a utilitarian government in the presence of heterogeneous locations within a country. We show that a utilitarian government never equalizes after-tax incomes, even when it can ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (3-4), 915-923)
H21, H7, R21, R23
1888 Erling Barth
Harald Dale-Olsen
Employer Size or Skill-Group Size Effect on Wages?
It turns out that the employer-size effect on individual wages dwindles away once one control for the number of workers of the same skill-group (educational type) as the observed individual within ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2011, 64(2), 341-355)
J31
1887 Adriaan Kalwij
Frederic Vermeulen
Labour Force Participation of the Elderly in Europe: The Importance of Being Healthy
In this paper we study labour force participation behaviour of individuals aged 50-64 in 11 European countries. The data are drawn from the new Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe ...
(published as: "Health and labour force participation of older people in Europe: what do objective health indicators add to the analysis?" in: Health Economics, 2008, 17(5), 619-638. )
I10, J22, J26
1884 Alison L. Booth
Jan C. van Ours
Hours of Work and Gender Identity: Does Part-Time Work Make the Family Happier?
Taking into account inter-dependence within the family, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and happiness. We use panel data from the new Household, Income and Labor Dynamics in ...
(published in: Economica, 2009, 76 (301), 176-196)
J22, I31, J16
1883 Eric D. Gould
Victor Lavy
M. Daniele Paserman
Does Immigration Affect the Long-Term Educational Outcomes of Natives? Quasi-Experimental Evidence
This paper uses the mass migration wave to Israel in the 1990s to examine the impact of immigrant concentration during elementary school on the long-term academic outcomes of native students in high ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2009, 119 (540), 1243-1269.)
I20, J24
1882 Daniel J. Henderson
Alexandre Olbrecht
Solomon Polachek
Do Former College Athletes Earn More at Work? A Nonparametric Assessment
This paper investigates how students' collegiate athletic participation affects their subsequent labor market success. It uses newly developed distributional tests to establish that the wage ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2006, 41(3), 558-577)
C14, J10, J30, J40, L83
1880 Maria Saez-Marti
Yves Zenou
Cultural Transmission and Discrimination
Each worker belongs to either the majority or the minority group and, irrespective of the group she belongs to, can have good or bad work habits. These traits are transmitted from one generation to ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2012, 72 (2-3), 137-146)
J15, J71
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