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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
1576 Alicia Adsera
Where Are the Babies? Labor Market Conditions and Fertility in Europe
Cross-country differences in both the age at first birth and fertility are substantial in Europe. The paper uses the European Community Household Panel 1994-2000 to investigate the relationship ...
(published in: European Journal of Population, 2011, 27 (1), 1 - 32)
J13, J2, J6, H3
1575 Mona Larsen
Peder J. Pedersen
Pathways to Early Retirement in Denmark, 1984-2000
This paper describes and analyses the pathways to early retirement in Denmark. The analyses are based on a 10 per cent panel sample of the population 45-66 years old followed from 1984 onwards. We ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2008, 29(5), 384-409)
J14, J26
1574 Wen-Hao Chen
Miles Corak
Child Poverty and Changes in Child Poverty in Rich Countries Since 1990
This paper documents levels and changes in child poverty rates in 12 OECD countries using data from the Luxembourg Income Study project, and focusing upon an analysis of the reasons for changes over ...
(revised version published in: Demography, 2008, 45 (3), 537-553)
I30, I32, I38
1573 Andrew E. Clark
Youenn Lohéac
"It Wasn't Me, It Was Them!" - Social Influence in Risky Behavior by Adolescents
Many years of concerted policy effort in Western countries has not prevented young people from experimenting with cigarettes, alcohol and marijuana. One potential explanation is that social ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2007, 26 (4), 763-784)
C23, D12, Z13
1570 Maya Bacache-Beauvallet
Etienne Lehmann
Minimum Wage or Negative Income Tax: Why Skilled Workers May Favor Wage Rigidities
This article studies the political choice over the extent and the means of income redistribution between high and low skilled workers. Redistributive tools encompass fiscal transfers with negative ...
(published as 'Minimum wage or negative income tax: why skilled workers may favor wage rigidities' in: Spanish Economic Review, 2008, 10 (1), 63-81)
D78, E24, H23, J38
1569 Thierry Lallemand
Robert Plasman
François Rycx
The Establishment-Size Wage Premium: Evidence from European Countries
This study examines the magnitude and determinants of the establishment-size wage premium in five European countries using a unique harmonised matched employer-employee data set. Findings show the ...
(published in: Empirica, 2007, 34 (5), 427-451)
J31
1568 Subhayu Bandyopadhyay
Ryo Takashima
Trade Policy and Illegal Immigration
We use a version of the Meade model to consider the effects of interdependent import tariffs in the presence illegal immigration. First, we consider the small union case and derive the Nash tariff ...
(published in: International Economics and Finance Journal, 2007, 2(1-2), 51-66)
F11, F22
1567 Gautam Hazarika
Sudipta Sarangi
Household Access to Microcredit and Child Work in Rural Malawi
This paper examines the effect of household access to microcredit upon work by seven to eleven year old children in rural Malawi. Given that microcredit organizations foster household enterprises ...
(published in: World Development, 2008, 36 (5), 843-859)
J22
1566 Scott Adams
David Neumark
The Effects of Living Wage Laws: Evidence from Failed and Derailed Living Wage Campaigns
Living wage campaigns have succeeded in about 100 jurisdictions in the United States but have also been unsuccessful in numerous cities. These unsuccessful campaigns provide a better control group or ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2005, 78 (2), 177-202)
J28, J38
1565 Anna Maria Ferragina
Francesco Pastore
Mind the Gap: Unemployment in the New EU Regions
The paper surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on regional unemployment during transition in Central and Eastern Europe. The focus is on Optimal Speed of Transition (OST) models and on ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2008, 22 (1), 73-113)
J6, P2, R1, R23
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