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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
1676 Xavier Chojnicki
Frédéric Docquier
Lionel Ragot
Should the U.S. Have Locked the Heaven's Door? Reassessing the Benefits of the Postwar Immigration
This paper examines the economic impact of the second great immigration wave (1945-2000) on the US economy. Contrary to recent studies, we estimate that immigration induced important net gains and ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (1), 317-359)
J61, I3, D58
1675 Flavio Cunha
James J. Heckman
Lance John Lochner
Dimitriy V. Masterov
Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation
This paper presents economic models of child development that capture the essence of recent findings from the empirical literature on skill formation. The goal of this essay is to provide a ...
(published in: E. Hanushek; F. Welch (eds.): Handbook of the Economics of Education, North Holland: Amsterdam, 2006, 697-812)
J31, I21, I22, I28
1674 Caitlin Knowles Myers
A Cure for Discrimination? Affirmative Action and the Case of California Proposition 209
Proposition 209, enacted in California in 1996 and made effective the following year, ended state affirmative action programs not only in education, but also for public employment and government ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 60 (3), 379-396)
J71, J78
1673 Christopher J. Ruhm
Maternal Employment and Adolescent Development
This study investigates how maternal employment is related to the outcomes of 10 and 11 year olds, controlling for a wide variety of child, mother and family characteristics. The results suggest that ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15(5), 958-983)
I20, J13, J18, J22
1672 Bertrand Koebel
Exports and Labour Demand: Searching for Functional Structure in Multi-Output Multi-Skill Technologies
In order to simplify the representation of a technological relationship between inputs and outputs, a production unit's technology must typically satisfy some restrictive conditions, some of them ...
(published in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2006, 24 (1), 91-103)
C33, D24, E10, J23, L60
1671 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Jean Kimmel
Moonlighting Behavior over the Business Cycle
Using data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we examine the cyclicality by sex of moonlighting and moonlighting hours. We find that, once we account for the sample selection into ...
(published as 'Moonlighting over the Business Cycle' in: Economic Inquiry, 2009, 47 (4), 754 - 765)
J2
1670 Anne C. Gielen
Jan C. van Ours
Age-Specific Cyclical Effects in Job Reallocation and Labor Mobility
We present an empirical analysis of job reallocation and labor mobility using matched worker-firm data for the Netherlands to investigate how firms adjust their workforce over the cycle. Our data ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2006, 13 (4), 493-504)
J23, J62, J63
1669 Marisa Ratto
Wendelin Schnedler
Division of Labour and Directed Production
We examine a situation where efforts on different tasks positively affect production but are not separately verifiable and where the manager (principal) and the worker (agent) have different ideas ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy , 2008, 8 (1), Article 27)
L23, M52, D82, J24
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