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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
1876 Lutz C. Kaiser
Gender-Job Satisfaction Differences across Europe: An Indicator for Labor Market Modernization
In 14 member states of the European Union, women's relative to men's levels of job satisfaction are compared by using data of the European Household Community Panel. The countries under consideration ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2007, 28 (1), 75-94 )
J28
1874 Daniele Checchi
Vito Peragine
Regional Disparities and Inequality of Opportunity: The Case of Italy
In this paper we provide a new methodology to measure opportunity inequality and to decompose overall inequality in an "ethically offensive" and an "ethically acceptable" part. Moreover, we provide ...
(published as 'Inequality of opportunity in Italy' in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2010, 8 (4), 429-450)
D63
1873 Zhong Zhao
Sensitivity of Propensity Score Methods to the Specifications
Propensity score matching estimators have two advantages. One is that they overcome the curse of dimensionality of covariate matching, and the other is that they are nonparametric. However, the ...
(revised version published in: Economics Letters , 2008, 98 (3), 309-319)
C21, C14, C15, C16, C52
1871 Holger Bonin
Tarifpolitik und Entgeltflexibilität in Ostdeutschland
Der Beitrag beschreibt die Lohnpolitik in Ostdeutschland seit der Wiedervereinigung und präsentiert empirische Evidenz für die Hypothese, dass überhöhte Tarifabschlüsse das aus dem Westen übernommene ...
(published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung / Journal for Labour Market Research, 2005, 38 (2-3), 147-164)
J31, J51, P52
1870 Michael R. Ransom
Ronald L. Oaxaca
Sex Differences in Pay in a "New Monopsony" Model of the Labor Market
We use a simple framework, adopted from general equilibrium search models, to estimate the extent to which monopsony power (or labor market frictions) can account for gender differences in pay, using ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2010, 28(2), 267-289)
J42, J71
1869 Sascha O. Becker
Samuel Bentolila
Ana Fernandes
Andrea Ichino
Job Insecurity and Youth Emancipation: A Theoretical Approach
In this paper, we propose a theoretical model to study the effect of income insecurity of parents and offspring on the child's residential choice. Parents are partially altruistic toward their ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contribution to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2008, 8 (1), Article 19)
D1, J1, J2
1867 Nauro F. Campos
Francesco Giovannoni
The Determinants of Asset Stripping: Theory and Evidence from the Transition Economies
During the transition from plan to market, managers and politicians succeeded in maintaining control of large parts of the stock of socialist physical capital. Despite the obvious importance of this ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2006, 49 (2), 681-706)
H82, K42, O17, P26, P31
1866 John T. Addison
C. R. Barrett
W. Stanley Siebert
Building Blocks in the Economics of Mandates
The paper constructs an asymmetric information model to investigate the efficiency and equity cases for government mandated benefits. A mandate can improve workers' insurance, and may also ...
(published in: Portuguese Economic Journal, 2006, 5 (2), 69 - 87)
D82, J33
1865 Ana Rute Cardoso
Miguel Portela
The Provision of Wage Insurance by the Firm: Evidence from a Longitudinal Matched Employer-Employee Dataset
We evaluate the impact of product market uncertainty on workers wages, addressing the questions: To what extent do firms provide insurance to their workforce, insulating their wages from shocks in ...
(published as 'Micro foundations for wage flexibility: Wage insurance at the firm level' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2009, 111 (1), 29-50)
C33, D21, J33, J41
1864 Sandra E. Black
Paul J. Devereux
Kjell G. Salvanes
From the Cradle to the Labor Market? The Effect of Birth Weight on Adult Outcomes
Lower birth weight babies have worse outcomes, both short-run in terms of one-year mortality rates and longer run in terms of educational attainment and earnings. However, recent research has called ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007, 122 (1), 409-439)
J1, I1
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