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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
1847 John Ermisch
Marco Francesconi
Thomas Siedler
Intergenerational Economic Mobility and Assortative Mating
We use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and the British Household Panel Survey to estimate the extent of intergenerational economic mobility in a framework that highlights the role played by ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (513), 659-679)
J12, I20, D31, D64
1846 Christopher R. Bollinger
Barry Hirsch
Match Bias from Earnings Imputation in the Current Population Survey: The Case of Imperfect Matching
This paper examines alternative forms of match bias arising from earnings imputation. Wage equation parameters are estimated based on mixed samples of workers who do and do not report earnings, the ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2006, 24 (3), 483-519)
J31, C81, C10
1845 Werner Eichhorst
Ole Wintermann
Generating Legitimacy for Labor Market and Welfare State Reforms: The Role of Policy Advice in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden
Policy advice can help political actors design and implement institutional reforms through the generation of political and substantial legitimacy. This article clarifies the institutional ...
(published in: German Policy Studies, 2006, 3 (2), 268-309; also published as 'De l'expertise aux politiques publiques : l'exemple de l'Allemagne, des Pays-Bas et de la Suède' in: Problèmes Economiques, 2006, No. 2.912 )
H83, J58
1843 Thierry Lallemand
Robert Plasman
François Rycx
Women and Competition in Elimination Tournaments: Evidence from Professional Tennis Data
This paper examines how professional female tennisplayers react to: i) prize incentives and ii) heterogeneity in ex ante players' abilities. It is found that a larger prize spread encourages women to ...
(published in: Journal of Sports Economics, 2008, 9 (1), 3-19)
J33, J41, M12
1842 Helmut Rainer
Thomas Siedler
O Brother, Where Art Thou? The Effects of Having a Sibling on Geographic Mobility and Labor Market Outcomes
In most industrialized countries, more people than ever are having to cope with the burden of caring for elderly parents. This paper formulates a model to explain how parental care responsibilities ...
(published in: Economica, 2009, 76 (303), 528-556)
D19, J14, C13
1841 Alexander K. Koch
Eloic Peyrache
Tournaments, Individualized Contracts and Career Concerns
Young professionals typically do not enter into life-long employment relations with a single firm. Therefore, future employers can learn about individuals' abilities from the observable facts ...
(revised and extended version published as 'Aligning Ambition and Incentives' in: Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization , 2011, 27(1).)
D82, J33, L14, M52
1840 Michael Beenstock
Barry R. Chiswick
Ari Paltiel
Endogenous Assimilation and Immigrant Adjustment in Longitudinal Data
We create a longitudinal data set by matching immigrants in Israel's censuses for 1983 and 1995. These panel data reject the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis (IAH), which predicts that immigrants ...
(revised paper published as "Testing the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis with Longitudinal Data" in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2010, 8 (1), 7-27)
J24, J31, J61, F22
1839 John Micklewright
Gyula Nagy
Job Search Monitoring and Unemployment Duration in Hungary: Evidence from a Randomised Control Trial
The impact of the administration of unemployment benefits on time spent unemployed is a neglected issue in discussion of incentive effects in Central and Eastern Europe. We use Labour Force Survey ...
(revised version published as 'The effect of monitoring unemployment insurance recipients on unemployment duration: Evidence from a field experiment' in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 180-187)
J64, J65, P23
1837 Marco Francesconi
Stephen P. Jenkins
Thomas Siedler
Childhood Family Structure and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence for Germany
We analyze the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (3), 1073-1103 )
C23, D13, I21, J12, J13
1836 Sascha O. Becker
Samuel Bentolila
Ana Fernandes
Andrea Ichino
Youth Emancipation and Perceived Job Insecurity of Parents and Children
The age at which children leave the parental home differs considerably across countries. In this paper we argue that lower job insecurity of parents and higher job insecurity of children delay ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (3), 1047-1071)
J1, J2
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