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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
1468 Giovanni Russo
Wolter Hassink
The Part-Time Wage Penalty: A Career Perspective
Part-time employment has become an extremely popular work arrangement in the Netherlands because it renders employment compatible with non-work activities. We posit that there may be a downside to ...
(published as "The Part-Time Wage Gap: a Career Perspective" in: De Economist, 2008, 156 (2), 145-174)
J31, J24, J22
1467 Marc Gurgand
David N. Margolis
Does Work Pay in France? Monetary Incentives and the Guaranteed Minimum Income
Most welfare programs generate high marginal tax rates on labor income. This paper uses a representative sample of individuals on France's main welfare program (the Revenu Minimum d'Insertion, or ...
(published as 'Does work pay in France? Monetary incentives, hours constraints, and the guaranteed minimum' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (7), 1669-1697)
I38, J31, C34
1466 Sabien Dobbelaere
Joint Estimation of Price-Cost Margins and Union Bargaining Power for Belgian Manufacturing
This paper extends Hall's (1988) methodology to analyse imperfections in both the product and the labour market for firms in the Belgian manufacturing industry over the period 1988-1995. We ...
(published in: International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2004, 22(10), 1381-1398)
C23, D21, J50, L13
1465 Etienne Wasmer
Yves Zenou
Equilibrium Search Unemployment with Explicit Spatial Frictions
Assuming that job search efficiency decreases with distance to jobs, workers’ location in a city depends on spatial elements such as commuting costs and land prices and on labour elements such as ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2006, 13 (2), 143-165)
E24, J41, R14
1464 Claus Schnabel
Joachim Wagner
Determinants of Union Membership in 18 EU Countries: Evidence from Micro Data, 2002/03
Using representative individual-level data from the first round of the European Social Survey fielded in 2002/03, this paper provides an empirical analysis of unionization in 18 countries of the ...
(published in: Industrial Relations Journal, 2007, 38 (1), 5-32)
J51
1463 Don J. DeVoretz
Sergiy Pivnenko
Self-Selection, Immigrant Public Finance Performance and Canadian Citizenship
This paper consists of two parts focusing on the immigrant’s decision to acquire Canadian citizenship, and her subsequent performance as a taxpayer and recipient of public finance transfers. Our ...
(published in: P. Bevelander and D. DeVoretz (eds.), The Economics of Citizenship, IMER Press, Malmo Sweden, 2008)
J61, J68, F22
1462 Jens Suedekum
The Home Market Shadow
The home market effect (HME) is a distinguishing feature of the “new” theory of international trade, but it is uncertain whether this effect survives if one moves beyond the simplifying setup with ...
(published in: Journal of Economics, 2007, 92 (3), 208-229)
F12, F14, R12
1460 Mathias Hungerbühler
Etienne Lehmann
Alexis Parmentier
Bruno Van der Linden
Optimal Redistributive Taxation in a Search Equilibrium Model
This paper characterizes optimal non-linear income taxation in an economy with a continuum of unobservable productivity levels and endogenous involuntary unemployment due to frictions in the labor ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2006, 73(3), 743-767)
D82, H21, H24, J64
1457 Klara Sabirianova Peter
Jan Svejnar
Katherine Terrell
Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?
Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94 (4), 981-999)
C33, D20, G32, L20
1456 Carmel U. Chiswick
An Economic Perspective on Religious Education: Complements and Substitutes in a Human Capital Portfolio
This paper models the tradeoffs between education in secular subjects, formal and informal, and the formation of religion-specific human capital. It explores some implications of negative ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2006, 24, 449-467)
Z12, J20, J15
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