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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
1816 Christian Grund
Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen
Age Structure of the Workforce and Firm Performance
In this contribution, we examine the interrelation between corporate age structures and firm performance. In particular, we address the issues, whether firms with young rather than older employees ...
(revised version published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2008, 29(5), 410-422)
M54, J21, L25
1815 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Jungmin Lee
Stressed Out on Four Continents: Time Crunch or Yuppie Kvetch?
Social commentators have pointed to problems of workers who face "time stress" – an absence of sufficient time to accomplish all their tasks. An economic theory views time stress as reflecting how ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2007, 89 (2), 374-383)
J22
1812 John S. Heywood
W. Stanley Siebert
Xiangdong Wei
High Performance Workplaces and Family Friendly Practices: Promises Made and Promises Kept
High performance workplaces elicit greater involvement and productivity from employees but past theory and evidence remain divided on whether or not such workplaces are compatible with family ...
(published in: International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2010, 21 (11), 1976-1995)
J31, J32, J81
1811 Alois Stutzer
Bruno S. Frey
Does Marriage Make People Happy, Or Do Happy People Get Married?
This paper analyzes the causal relationships between marriage and subjective well-being in a longitudinal data set spanning 17 years. We find evidence that happier singles opt more likely for ...
(published in: Journal of Socio-Economics, 2006, 35 (2), 326-347)
D13, I31, J12
1810 Herwig Immervoll
Henrik Jacobsen Kleven
Claus Thustrup Kreiner
Emmanuel Saez
Welfare Reform in European Countries: A Microsimulation Analysis
This paper estimates the welfare and distributional impact of two types of welfare reform in the 15 (pre-enlargement) member countries of the European Union. The reforms are revenue neutral and ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2007. 118 (516), 1-44)
H20
1809 Wim P. Vijverberg
Joop Hartog
On Simplifying the Structure of Labour Demand: An Analysis of the DOT Data
We analyse the information in the Dictionary of Occupational Titles to characterize the structure of labour demand. Two dimensions, an intellectual factor and a dexterity factor capture most ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2010, 42(13), 1747-1760)
J21, J23, J31
1808 David A. Jaeger
M. Daniele Paserman
The Cycle of Violence? An Empirical Analysis of Fatalities in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
This paper studies the dynamics of violence in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict since the outbreak of the Second (or "Al-Aqsa") Intifada in September 2000, during which more than 3,300 Palestinians ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2008, 98 (4), 1591-1604)
C32, D71, D74, H56
1807 Don J. DeVoretz
An Auction Model of Canadian Temporary Immigration for the 21st Century
Temporary Canadian immigration has grown beyond traditional programs for students, caregivers and agricultural workers to include trade-related temporary visas under NAFTA and the GATS. Several ...
(published in: International Migration, 2008, 46 (1), 3–17)
F22, J61
1806 Federico Biagi
Claudio Lucifora
Demographic and Education Effects on Unemployment in Europe: Economic Factors and Labour Market Institutions
We analyse the effects of demographic and education changes on unemployment rates in Europe. Using a panel of European countries for the 1980-2000 period - disaggregated by cohort, gender and ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15(5), 1076-1101)
E24, J31, J51, J65
1805 Charles Grant
Winfried Koeniger
Redistributive Taxation and Personal Bankruptcy in US States
Both personal bankruptcy and redistributive taxes can insure households' consumption risk and both vary considerably across US states. We derive sufficient conditions under which more ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2009, 52 (3), 445-467)
E21, E61, G18
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