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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
1491 Pieter A. Gautier
Michael Svarer
Coen Teulings
Marriage and the City
Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In cities singles can meet more potential partners than in rural areas. Singles are therefore prepared to pay a premium in terms of ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2010, 67 (2), 206-218)
J12, J64
1490 Hilmar Schneider
Holger Bonin
Wohlfahrts- und Verteilungseffekte eines allgemeinen Freibetrags bei den Sozialabgaben
Der Beitrag untersucht die Arbeitsmarktwirkungen einer vom Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbund vorgeschlagenen Subventionierung der Sozialbeiträge über einen allgemeinen Freibetrag. Im Rahmen eines mit ...
(published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung / Journal for Labour Market Research, 2005, 38 (4), 475-492)
J68, J38, H24, J22
1489 Andrew E. Clark
Fabien Postel-Vinay
Job Security and Job Protection
We construct indicators of the perception of job security for various types of jobs in 12 European countries using individual data from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). We then consider ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2009, 61 (2), 207-239)
J28, J65, I31
1488 Paul Frijters
John de New
Michael A. Shields
Socio-Economic Status, Health Shocks, Life Satisfaction and Mortality: Evidence from an Increasing Mixed Proportional Hazard Model
The socio-economic gradient in health remains a controversial topic in economics and other social sciences. In this paper we develop a new duration model that allows for unobserved persistent ...
(revised version published as 'The Increasingly Mixed Proportional Hazard Model: An Application to Socioeconomic Status, Health Shocks, and Mortality' in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2011, 29 (2), 271-281)
I1, C23
1487 Johannes Schwarze
Rainer Winkelmann
What Can Happiness Research Tell Us About Altruism? Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel
Much progress has been made in recent years on developing and applying a direct measure of utility using survey questions on subjective well-being. In this paper we explore whether this new type of ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (3), 1033-1051)
D6, D64, C25, J10
1485 Andrew T. Newell
Mieczyslaw Socha
The Distribution of Wages in Poland, 1992-2002
This paper analyses the changes in the size distribution of wages in Poland over a decade of transition. Until about 1998 there were some forces tending to increase wage inequality and other forces ...
(published as Chapter 11 of World Bank, "Poland: Growth, Employment and Living Standards in Pre-Accession Poland", Volume 2, 2004)
J31, P23
1484 Sumon K. Bhaumik
Saul Estrin
How Transition Paths Differ: Enterprise Performance in Russia and China
We use enterprise data to analyse and contrast the determinants of enterprise performance in China and Russia. We find that in China, enterprise growth and efficiency is associated with rapid ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 82(2): 374-392, 2007)
D23, L22, O12, P31
1483 Sara de la Rica
Juan J. Dolado
Vanesa Llorens
Ceiling and Floors: Gender Wage Gaps by Education in Spain
This paper analyses the gender wage gaps by education throughout the wage distribution in Spain using individual data from the ECHP (1999). Quantile regressions are used to estimate the wage returns ...
(published in Journal of Population Economics, 2008, 21 (3), 751-776)
J16, J71
1481 Elizabeth U. Cascio
Ethan Gatewood Lewis
Schooling and the AFQT: Evidence from School Entry Laws
Is the Armed Forces Qualifying Test (AFQT) a measure of achievement or ability? The answer to this question is critical for drawing inferences from studies in which it is employed. In this paper, we ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2006, 41(2), 294-318)
I20, J24, J15
1480 Olivier B. Bargain
Nicolas Moreau
Cooperative Models in Action: Simulation of a Nash-Bargaining Model of Household Labor Supply with Taxation
Several theoretical contributions, starting with McElroy and Horney (1981) and Manser and Brown (1980), have suggested to model household behavior as a Nash-bargaining game. Since then, very few ...
(published as 'The Impact of Tax-Benefit Reforms on Labor Supply in a Simulated Nash-bargaining Framework' in: Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2013, 34(1), 77-86)
C25, C52, C71, D11, D12, H31, J22
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