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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
1333 Uwe Blien
Jens Suedekum
Local Economic Structure and Industry Development in Germany, 1993-2001
This paper analyses the impact of dynamic MAR- and Jacobs-externalities on local employment growth in Germany between 1993 and 2001. In order to facilitate a comparison between the neighbouring ...
(published in: Economics Bulletin, 2005, 17 (15), 1-8)
R11, O40
1332 Klara Sabirianova Peter
Jan Svejnar
Katherine Terrell
Distance to the Efficiency Frontier and FDI Spillovers
We establish that domestically owned firms in two alternative models of emerging market economies, the Czech Republic and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2005, 3 (2-3), 291–302)
C33, D20, F23, G32, L20, O33
1331 Alexander K. Koch
Eloic Peyrache
Mixed Up? That's Good for Motivation
An essential ingredient in models of career concerns is ex ante uncertainty about an agent's type. This paper shows how career concerns can arise even in the absence of any such ex ante ...
(published in : Economic Theory, 2008, 34 (1), 107-125)
D80, J33, L14, M12
1330 Jeffrey P. Carpenter
Jessica Holmes
Peter Hans Matthews
Charity Auctions: A Field Experimental Investigation
Auctions are a popular way to raise money for charities, but relatively little is known, either theoretically or empirically, about the properties of charity auctions. The small ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (525), 92-113)
C93, D44, D64
1329 Thomas Raferzeder
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
Who is on the Rise in Austria: Wage Mobility and Mobility Risk
In this paper we investigate earnings mobility in Austria from the angle of individual persons: earnings mobility over time has two aspects: positional changes and the volatility of earnings over ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2007, 5 (1), 39-51)
I32, J31
1328 Alison Currie
Michael A. Shields
Stephen Wheatley Price
Is the Child Health / Family Income Gradient Universal? Evidence from England
In an influential study Case et al. (2002) documented a positive relationship between family income and child health in the US, with the slope of the gradient being larger for older than younger ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2007, 26 (2), 213-232)
I1
1327 Peter T. Gottschalk
Downward Nominal Wage Flexibility: Real or Measurement Error?
This paper presents a new method to correct for measurement error in wage data and applies this method to address an old question. How much downward wage flexibility is there in the U.S? We apply ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2005, 87 (3), 556-568)
J38
1326 Michael P. Pflüger
Jens Suedekum
Integration, Agglomeration and Welfare
This paper studies the social desirability of agglomeration and the efficiency arguments for policy intervention in a simple, analytically solvable ‘new economic geography’ model with two trade ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2008, 63 (2), 544-566 )
F12, F15, F22, R22, R50
1325 Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Klara Sabirianova Peter
Returns to Schooling in Russia and Ukraine: A Semiparametric Approach to Cross-Country Comparative Analysis
This study provides the first set of estimates of the returns to schooling over an extended period in Russia and Ukraine (1985-2002). There has been an increase in returns to schooling in both ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2005, 33 (2), 324-350)
C14, I20, J31, O15, O57, P50
1324 Alan S. Blinder
Alan B. Krueger
What Does the Public Know about Economic Policy, and How Does It Know It?
Public opinion influences politicians, and therefore influences public policy decisions. What are the roles of self-interest, knowledge, and ideology in public opinion formation? And how do people ...
(published in: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2004:1)
D70, E60
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