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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
1364 Arnaud Chéron
Jean-Olivier Hairault
François Langot
Labor Market Institutions and the Employment-Productivity Trade-Off: A Wage Posting Approach
This paper analyzes the implications of labor market institutions and policies on the employment-labor productivity trade-off. We consider an equilibrium search model with wage posting and specific ...
(published as "A quantitative evaluation of payroll tax subsidies for low-wage workers: An equilibrium search approach" in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92(3-4), 817-843)
C51, J24, J31, J38
1363 Rafael Lalive
Jan C. van Ours
Josef Zweimüller
How Changes in Financial Incentives Affect the Duration of Unemployment
This paper studies how changes in the two key parameters of unemployment insurance – the benefit replacement rate (RR) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) – affect the duration of ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2006, 73 (4), 1009-1038)
C41, J64, J65
1362 Shoshana Neuman
Ronald L. Oaxaca
Wage Differentials in the 1990s in Israel: Endowments, Discrimination, and Selectivity
The purpose of this paper is to investigate wage structures of professional workers in the Israeli labor market, using data from the most recent 1995 Census and correcting for selectivity at the ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2005, 26(3), 217-236)
J15, J16, J31, J44, J71
1360 Oluyemisi Kuku
Peter F. Orazem
Rajesh Singh
Computer Adoption and Returns in Transition
Data from nine transition economies in Central and Eastern Europe are used to examine the role of computer adoption for returns to education. As in western economies, computers are adopted most ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2007, 15 (1), 33-56)
O, P2, J31
1359 Bernard Fortin
Guy Lacroix
Marie Claire Villeval
Tax Evasion and Social Interactions
The paper extends the standard tax evasion model by allowing for social interactions. In Manski’s (1993) nomenclature, our model takes into account social conformity effects (i.e., endogenous ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 91 (11-12), 2089-2112.)
H26, D63, C24, C92, Z13
1358 Guido Heineck
Johannes Schwarze
Fly Me to the Moon: The Determinants of Secondary Jobholding in Germany and the UK
This paper analyzes the determinants of secondary jobholding in Germany and the UK. Although differing in labor market regulations, moonlighting is a persistent phenomenon in both countries. Using ...
(published as 'The determinants of secondary jobholding in Germany and the UK' in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung / Journal for Labour Market Research, 2009, 42 (2), 107-120)
J22, J29
1356 Michael Gibbs
Kenneth A. Merchant
Wim A. Van der Stede
Mark A. Vargus
Performance Measure Properties and Incentives
We examine the effects of performance measure properties on incentive system design, using data on incentive contracts for auto dealership managers. The data include information on five properties: ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2009, 48(2), 237-264)
M52, J33
1355 Luis Diaz-Serrano
Joop Hartog
Is There a Risk-Return Trade-Off across Occupations? Evidence from Spain
We use data from Spain to test for an effect of earnings risk and skewness on individual wages. We carry out separate estimation for men, women, public and private sector employees. In accordance ...
(published as 'Is there a risk-return trade-off in educational choices? Evidence from Spain' in: Investigaciones Economicas, 2006, 30 (2), 353-380)
J3, D8
1354 Philipp C. Bauer
Regina T. Riphahn
Heterogeneity in the Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment: Evidence from Switzerland on Natives and Second Generation Immigrants
This study applies rich data from the 2000 Swiss census to investigate the patterns of intergenerational education transmission for natives and second generation immigrants. The level of secondary ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20 (1), 121-148)
I21, J61
1352 Eric Verhoogen
Stephen V. Burks
Jeffrey P. Carpenter
Fairness and Freight-Handlers: Local Labor-Market Conditions and Wage-Fairness Perceptions in a Trucking Firm
This paper draws on evidence from an internal attitude survey in the freight-handling terminals of a unionized trucking firm to investigate the effect of local labor market conditions on employee ...
(revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 60 (4), 477-498)
J41, Z13, D23
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