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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
1804 C. Simon Fan
Xiangdong Wei
Junsen Zhang
'Soft' Skills, 'Hard' Skills, and the Black/White Earnings Gap
This paper provides both a theoretical and an empirical investigation into the impact of job skill types on the black/white pay differentials. The theoretical analysis derives that the more ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2017, 55 (2), 1032-1053)
J24, J31, J71
1803 Leo Turcotte
John Robst
Solomon Polachek
Medical Interventions among Pregnant Women in Fee-for-Service and Managed Care Insurance: A Propensity Score Analysis
We extend prior research on the effect of managed care on the receipt of four medical interventions for pregnant women: ultrasound, induction/stimulation of birth, electronic fetal monitor, and ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2006, 38 (13), 1513-1525)
I10
1802 Caitlin Knowles Myers
Discrimination as a Competitive Device: The Case of Local Television News
Local news offers a unique look not only at customer preferences but also at the strategic response of firms to these preferences. This paper uses a combination of ratings data and newly gathered ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2008, 8(1))
J71
1801 Sascha O. Becker
Introducing Time-to-Educate in a Job Search Model
Transition patterns from school to work differ considerably across OECD countries. Some countries exhibit high youth unemployment rates, which can be considered an indicator of the difficulty facing ...
(published in: Bulletin of Economic Research, 2006, 58 (1), 61–72)
E24, J31, J41, J64
1800 L. Rachel Ngai
Christopher A. Pissarides
Structural Change in a Multi-Sector Model of Growth
We study a multi-sector model of growth with differences in TFP growth rates across sectors and derive sufficient conditions for the coexistence of structural change, characterized by sectoral labor ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2007, 97 (1), 429-443)
O41, O14
1799 Bruce Fallick
Charles A. Fleischman
James B. Rebitzer
Job-Hopping in Silicon Valley: Some Evidence Concerning the Micro-Foundations of a High Technology Cluster
In Silicon Valley's computer cluster, skilled employees are reported to move rapidly between competing firms. This job-hopping facilitates the reallocation of resources towards firms with superior ...
(published in: Review of Economic and Statistics, 2006, 88(3), 472-481)
R12, L63, O3, J63, J48
1798 Ansgar H. Belke
Bernhard Herz
Lukas Vogel
Structural Reforms and the Exchange Rate Regime: A Panel Analysis for the World versus OECD Countries
We test the significance of the relationship between the exchange rate regime and the degree of structural reforms by estimating panel regressions for a world and an OECD country sample. The ...
(published in: International Finance, 2006, 9 (3), 317-342)
D78, E52, E61
1797 Alessandro Cigno
A Constitutional Theory of the Family
The paper re-examines the idea that a family can be viewed as a community governed by a self-enforcing constitution, and extends existing results in two directions. First, it identifies circumstances ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2006, 19 (2), 259-289)
C72, D02, D13, D71, D74, D91, H55, J13, J14
1795 Thomas K. Bauer
Mathias Sinning
Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition for Tobit Models
In this paper, a decomposition method for Tobit-models is derived, which allows the differences in a censored outcome variable between two groups to be decomposed into a part that is explained by ...
(published in: Applied Economics , 2010, 42 (12), 1569-1575)
C24, J31
1794 Dorothea Kübler
Wieland Müller
Hans-Theo Normann
Job Market Signaling and Screening: An Experimental Comparison
We analyze the Spence education game in experimental markets. We compare a signaling and a screening variant, and we analyze the effect of increasing the number of competing employers from two to ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2008, 64 (1), 219-236)
C35, I2, J24, P3, P52
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