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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
1443 Michael Lechner
Ruth Miquel
Conny Wunsch
Long-Run Effects of Public Sector Sponsored Training in West Germany
Between 1991 and 1997 West Germany spent on average about 3.6 bn Euro per year on public sector sponsored training programmes for the unemployed. We base our empirical analysis on a new ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (4), 742-784)
J68
1442 Felix FitzRoy
Kornelius Kraft
Co-Determination, Efficiency, and Productivity
We present the first panel estimates of the productivity effects of the unique German institution of parity, board-level co-determination. Although our data span two severe recessions when labour ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2005, 43 (2), 233-248)
D2, J5, L2
1441 Olivier B. Bargain
Normative Evaluation of Tax Policies: From Households to Individuals
We analyze the impact on French couples of a tax policy change – the introduction of a family tax credit – using jointly a collective model of household labor supply and a tax-benefit microsimulation ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2008, 21 (2), 339-371)
C71, D13, D31, D63, H21, H31, J22
1440 Amelie F. Constant
Klaus F. Zimmermann
The Making of Entrepreneurs in Germany: Are Native Men and Immigrants Alike?
This paper uses a state of the art three-stage technique to identify the characteristics of the self-employed immigrant and native men in Germany and to understand their underlying drive into ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2006, 26 (3), 279-300)
J23, M13, J24, J61, J31
1439 Ansgar H. Belke
Jens M. Heine
Specialisation Patterns and the Synchronicity of Regional Employment Cycles in Europe
This paper examines the degree of correlation of EU regional employment cycles and attempts to show whether these cycles reflect changing patterns of specialisation. By focusing on the regional level ...
(published in: International Economics and Economic Policy, 2006, 3 (2), 91-104)
E32, F15, R23
1438 Andrew E. Clark
Claudia Senik
The (Unexpected) Structure of "Rents" on the French and British Labour Markets
This paper considers the allocation of labour on the French and British markets, using objective wage and subjective satisfaction data. We show that, in some sectors, workers enjoy both higher wages ...
(published in: Journal of Socio-Economics, 2006, 35 (2), 180-196)
C30, J28, J31, J41, M51
1437 Flavio Cunha
James J. Heckman
Salvador Navarro
Separating Uncertainty from Heterogeneity in Life Cycle Earnings
This paper develops and applies a method for decomposing cross section variability of earnings into components that are forecastable at the time students decide to go to college (heterogeneity) and ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2005, 57 (2), 191-261)
C33, D84, I21
1435 Christian Dustmann
Uta Schönberg
Training and Union Wages
This paper tests the hypothesis that unions, through imposing wage floors that lead to wage compression, increase on-the-job training. Our analysis focuses on Germany which provides an interesting ...
(revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 91 (2), 363-376)
J24, J40, J51, I2
1434 Pramod N. (Raja) Junankar
Stephane Mahuteau
Do Migrants Get Good Jobs? New Migrant Settlement in Australia
This paper investigates the ease with which recent immigrants to Australia from different countries and with different visa categories enter employment at an appropriate level to their prior ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2005, 81 (s1), S34-S46)
J61, J68, C25
1433 Javier Ortega
Thomas P. Tangerås
Unilingual Versus Bilingual Education System: A Political Economy Analysis
We consider an economy with two language groups, where only agents who share a language can produce together. Schooling enhances the productivity of students and may modify their language endowment. ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2008, 6(5), 1078-1108)
I2, J15
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