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1835 Zhong Zhao
Health Determinants in Urban China
This paper identifies health determinants in urban China applying Grossman model. Using wave of China Health and Nutrition Survey in 2000, we find that education has important positive effect on ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Health Demand and Health Determinants in China' in:Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 2008, 6 (1), 77-98)
I12, J24, D12
1833 Nabanita Datta Gupta
Anders Poulsen
Marie Claire Villeval
Male and Female Competitive Behavior: Experimental Evidence
Male and female choices differ in many economic situations, e.g., on the labor market. This paper considers whether such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our ...
(revised version published as 'Gender Matching and Competitiveness: Experimental Evidence' in: Economic Inquiry, 2013, 51 (1), 816–835.)
C70, C91, J16, J24, J31, M52
1831 Marko Koethenbuerger
Panu Poutvaara
Paola Profeta
Why Are More Redistributive Social Security Systems Smaller? A Median Voter Approach
We suggest a political economy explanation for the stylized fact that intragenerationally more redistributive social security systems are smaller. We relate the stylized fact to an ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2008, 60 (2), 275-292)
H55, D72
1830 Spyros Konstantopoulos
Amelie F. Constant
The Gender Gap Reloaded: Is School Quality Linked to Labor Market Performance?
This study examines the gender gap in wages of young adults in the late 1970s, mid 1980s, and 2000, in the middle and the tails of the wage distribution using quantile regression. We also examine the ...
(substantially revised version published as 'The gender gap reloaded: Are school characteristics linked to labor market performance?' in: Social Science Research, 2008, 37 (2), 374-385)
J16, J24, J31
1829 Anna Maria Ferragina
Giorgia Giovannetti
Francesco Pastore
A Tale of Parallel Integration Processes. A Gravity Analysis of EU Trade with Mediterranean and Central and Eastern European Countries
Despite the EU emphasis on the 1995 Barcelona process, trade integration with the Mediterranean (MED) countries is still underdeveloped. To contrast the success of EU integration with MED countries ...
(published in: Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, 2009, 5 (2), Article 2)
C23, F15, F17, P45, P52
1828 Carlo Dell’Aringa
Claudio Lucifora
Federica Origo
Public Sector Pay and Regional Competitiveness: A First Look at Regional Public-Private Wage Differentials in Italy
This paper investigates regional public-private wage differentials in Italy. Following the recent wave of reforms that significantly changed wage setting and employment relations in both sectors – ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2007, 75 (4), 445-478)
J31,J45
1827 Patrick A. Puhani
Andrea M. Weber
Does the Early Bird Catch the Worm? Instrumental Variable Estimates of Educational Effects of Age of School Entry in Germany
We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational attainment using three different data sets for Germany, sampling pupils at the end of primary school, in the middle of secondary school ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2007, 32 (2-3), 359-386)
I21, I28, J24
1826 Atanas Christev
Olga Kupets
Hartmut Lehmann
Trade Liberalization and Employment Effects in Ukraine
This paper addresses the important issue of the effects of trade liberalization on labor market job flows. It studies the case of Ukraine where we view the sudden openness of the economy to trade as ...
(published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2008, 50 (2), 318-340)
E24, F14, J63, P23
1825 Denis Fougère
Jacqueline Pradel
Muriel Roger
Does Job-Search Assistance Affect Search Effort and Outcomes? A Microeconometric Analysis of Public versus Private Search Methods
In this paper, we examine the disincentive effects of the public employment service on the search effort of unemployed workers and on their exit rate from unemployment. For that purpose, we specify a ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2009, 53 (7), 846-869)
C41, J64
1824 Herwig Immervoll
Horacio Levy
Christine Lietz
Daniela Mantovani
Cathal O'Donoghue
Holly Sutherland
Gerlinde Verbist
Household Incomes and Redistribution in the European Union: Quantifying the Equalising Properties of Taxes and Benefits
The systems of direct taxes and cash benefits in the Member States of the European Union vary considerably in size and structure. We explore their direct impacts on cross-sectional income inequality ...
(published in: Papadimitriou, D.B. (ed.), The Distributional Effects of Government Spending and Taxation, Palgrave MacMillan 2006)
C81, D31, H22, H55
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