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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
1692 Andrew E. Clark
Fabrice Etilé
Don't Give Up On Me Baby: Spousal Correlation in Smoking Behaviour
We use nine waves of BHPS data to examine interactions between spouses in terms of a behaviour with important health repercussions: cigarette smoking. Correlation between partners' behaviours may be ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2006, 25 (5), 958-978)
C33, D83, I12, I18
1691 Jeffrey P. Carpenter
Erika Seki
Competitive Work Environments and Social Preferences: Field Experimental Evidence from a Japanese Fishing Community
Models of job tournaments and competitive workplaces more generally predict that while individual effort may increase as competition intensifies between workers, the incentive for workers to ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2006, 5 (2), Article 2)
C90, C93, H41, M54, Z13
1688 Avner Ahituv
Robert I. Lerman
How Do Marital Status, Wage Rates, and Work Commitment Interact?
How marriage interacts with men's earnings is an important public policy issue, given debates over programs to directly encourage healthy marriages. This paper generates new findings about the ...
(published in: Demography, 2007, 44 (3), 623-647)
C23, J12, J15, J22, J31, J88
1687 Pieter A. Gautier
Coen Teulings
Aico van Vuuren
On-The-Job Search and Sorting
We characterize the equilibrium of a search model with a continuum of job and worker types, wage bargaining, free entry of vacancies and on-the-job search. The decentralized economy with ...
(published as "On-the-job search, mismatch and efficiency" in: Review of Economic Studies, 2010, 77 (1), 245-272)
J3, J6
1684 Michael Lechner
Ruth Miquel
Conny Wunsch
The Curse and Blessing of Training the Unemployed in a Changing Economy: The Case of East Germany After Unification
We analyse the effects of government-sponsored training for the unemployed conducted during East German transition. For the microeconometric analysis, we use a new, large and informative ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2007, 8 (4), 468-509)
J68
1683 Yann Algan
Pierre Cahuc
The Roots of Low European Employment: Family Culture?
OECD countries faced largely divergent employment rates during the last decades. But the whole bulk of the cross-national and cross-temporal heterogeneity relies on specific demographic groups: ...
(published in: J. Frenkel and C. Pissarides (eds.), NBER Macroeconomic Annual, MIT Press: 2007)
J21, J22, Z13
1681 Daniele Checchi
Cecilia García-Peñalosa
Labour Market Institutions and the Personal Distribution of Income in the OECD
We examine what determines differences across countries and over time in the distribution of personal incomes in the OECD. We first model the wage determination process and show that unemployment, ...
(published in: Economica, 2010, 77 (307), 413-450)
D31, D33
1680 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Joel Slemrod
The Economics of Workaholism: We Should Not Have Worked on This Paper
A large literature examines the addictive properties of such behaviors as smoking, drinking alcohol and eating. We argue that for some people addictive behavior may apply to a much more central ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2008, 8 (1), Article 3)
J26, H21
1679 Luc Behaghel
Bruno Crépon
Béatrice Sédillot
The Perverse Effects of Partial Employment Protection Reform: Experience Rating and French Older Workers
French firms laying off workers aged 50 and above have to pay a tax to the unemployment insurance system, known as the Delalande tax. This is an original case of experience rating in the European ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (3-4), 696-721.)
J23, J63, J65
1678 Pierre Cahuc
Andre Zylberberg
Optimum Income Taxation and Layoff Taxes
This paper analyzes optimum income taxation in a model with endogenous job destruction that gives rise to unemployment. It is shown that optimal tax schemes comprise both payroll and layoff taxes ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (10-11), 2003-2019)
H21, H32, J38, J65
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