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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
1780 John T. Addison
Lutz Bellmann
Thorsten Schank
Paulino Teixeira
The Demand for Labor: An Analysis Using Matched Employer-Employee Data from the German LIAB. Will the High Unskilled Worker Own-Wage Elasticity Please Stand Up?
This paper uses matched employee-employer LIAB data to provide panel estimates of the structure of labor demand in Germany, 1993-2002, distinguishing between highly skilled, skilled, and unskilled ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2008, 29 (2), 114-137)
F15, J23, J31, O33, F15
1779 Daniela Del Boca
Daniela Vuri
Labor Supply and Child Care Costs: The Effect of Rationing
In Italy the participation of women has not increased very much in the last few decades relative to other developed countries and it is still among the lowest in Europe. The female employment rate ...
(published as 'The mismatch between employment and child care in Italy: the impact of rationing' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20(4), 805-832 )
J2, C3, D1
1778 Thierry Lallemand
François Rycx
Establishment Size and the Dispersion of Wages: Evidence from European Countries
We investigate how the wage distribution differs among small and large establishments in four European countries. Findings show that within-establishment wage dispersion rises with size because large ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2006, 52 (4), 309-336)
J21, J31
1777 Christine Harbring
Bernd Irlenbusch
How Many Winners Are Good to Have? On Tournaments with Sabotage
From an employer's perspective a tournament should induce agents to exert productive activities but refrain from destructive ones. We experimentally test the predictive power of a tournament model ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008, 65 (3), 682-702)
D23, J33, L23, C72
1774 David Neumark
Junfu Zhang
Brandon Wall
Employment Dynamics and Business Relocation: New Evidence from the National Establishment Time Series
We analyze and assess new evidence on employment dynamics from a new data source – the National Establishment Time Series (NETS). The NETS offers advantages over existing data sources for studying ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2007, 26, 39-83)
J2, C8, L0
1773 Robert Breunig
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Xiaodong Gong
Improving the Modeling of Couples' Labour Supply
We study the work hours of Australian couples, using a neoclassical labour-supply model in which couples choose from a small, realistic set of possible wife-husband working hour combinations We ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2008, 84(267), 466-485)
C51, D10, J22
1772 Sumon K. Bhaumik
Ira N. Gang
Myeong-Su Yun
Ethnic Conflict and Economic Disparity: Serbians and Albanians in Kosovo
We use the Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) household survey from post-conflict Kosovo to examine economic deprivation among Serbs and Albanians. Economic deprivation is measured by per ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2006, 34(4), 754-773)
I32, O12, J15
1771 Jackline Wahba
The Influence of Market Wages and Parental History on Child Labour and Schooling in Egypt
This paper examines the influence of adult market wages and having parents who were child labourers on child labour, when this decision is jointly determined with child schooling, using data from ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2006, 19 (4), 823-852)
J13, J20, O15
1770 Hartmut Lehmann
Norberto Pignatti
Jonathan Wadsworth
The Incidence and Cost of Job Loss in the Ukrainian Labor Market
We examine the effects of economic transition on the pattern and costs of worker displacement in Ukraine, using the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) for the years 1992 to 2002. ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2006, 34 (2), 248-271)
J64, J65, P50
1769 Jordi Brandts
Arno Riedl
Frans van Winden
Competition and Well-Being
This paper experimentally studies the effects of competition in an environment where people's actions can not be contractually fixed. We find that, in comparison with no competition, the presence of ...
(published as "Competitive Rivalry, Social Disposition, and Subjective Well-Being: An Experiment" in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93 (11-12), 1158-1167)
A13, C92, D30, J50, M50
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