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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
1716 Christian Bjørnskov
Nabanita Datta Gupta
Peder J. Pedersen
What Buys Happiness? Analyzing Trends in Subjective Well-Being in 15 European Countries, 1973-2002
Trends in life satisfaction are examined across 15 European countries employing a modified version of Kendall's Tau. Analyses show that GDP growth relative to growth in the preceding period is a ...
(published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2008, 9 (2), 317-330)
I31
1715 Amelie F. Constant
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Immigrant Performance and Selective Immigration Policy: A European Perspective
The European Union aims at a stronger participation by its population in work to foster growth and welfare. There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labour force, and discussions ...
(published in: National Institute Economic Review, 2005, 194 (1), 94-105)
F22, J15, J31, J61, J68, J82
1713 Alison L. Booth
Hiau Joo Kee
Birth Order Matters: The Effect of Family Size and Birth Order on Educational Attainment
We use unique retrospective family background data from the 2003 British Household Panel Survey to explore the degree to which family size and birth order affect a child's subsequent educational ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (2), 367-397)
I2, J1
1712 Simon C. Parker
Entrepreneurship Among Married Couples in the United States: A Simultaneous Probit Approach
This article proposes a simultaneous probit equation framework to analyse the business ownership patterns of married couples in the United States. A structural model of knowledge spillovers within ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (3), 515-537)
J23, J24, M13
1711 Gil S. Epstein
Ira N. Gang
Contests, NGOs and Decentralizing Aid
International donors usually have particular goals they want to achieve with their foreign aid, for example, poverty alleviation. In the international aid story lobbying by potential recipient groups ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2006, 10 (2), 285-296)
F35, D72
1710 Herbert Brücker
Boriss Siliverstovs
On the Estimation and Forecasting of International Migration: How Relevant Is Heterogeneity Across Countries?
This paper performs a comparative analysis of estimation as well as of out-of-sample forecasting results of more than 20 estimators common in the panel data literature using the data on migration to ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2006, 31(3), 735-754)
C23, C53, F22
1709 Lex Borghans
Bas ter Weel
The Division of Labour, Worker Organisation, and Technological Change
The model developed in this paper explains differences in the division of labour across firms as a result of computer technology adoption. We find that changes in the division of labour can result ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (509), F45-F72)
J31, O15, O33
1708 Nina Smith
Valdemar Smith
Mette Verner
Do Women in Top Management Affect Firm Performance? A Panel Study of 2500 Danish Firms
Corporate governance literature argues that board diversity is potentially positively related to firm performance. This study examines the relationship in the case of women in top executive jobs and ...
(published in: International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, 2006, 55 (7), 569 - 593 )
G38, J16, M14
1707 Jaan Masso
Raul Eamets
Kaia Philips
Job Creation and Job Destruction in Estonia: Labour Reallocation and Structural Changes
This article documents and analyses gross job flows and their determinants in Estonia over the years 1995-2001, using a database containing the population of officially registered firms in Estonia ...
(published in: H. Hannula, S. Radoševic and N. von Tunzelmann (eds.) , Estonia, the New EU Economy, Building a Baltic Miracle. Ashgate Publishing, 2006, pp. 105-142)
J6, P2, L11
1706 Pierre-Carl Michaud
Konstantinos Tatsiramos
Employment Dynamics of Married Women in Europe
We use eight waves from the European Community Household Panel (1994-2001) to analyze the intertemporal labor supply behavior of married women in six European countries (Netherlands, France, Spain, ...
(substantially revised paper appeared as DP No. 3853 )
C23, C25, D91, J22
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