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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
1323 Jungmin Lee
Sibling Size and Investment in Children's Education: An Asian Instrument
This study consistently estimates the trade-off between child quantity and quality by exploiting exogenous variation in fertility due to son preferences. Under son preferences, childbearing and ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2008, 21 (4), 855 - 875)
D13, J13, O12
1322 Helen Connolly
Peter T. Gottschalk
Do Earnings Subsidies Affect Job Choice?
It is widely acknowledged that tax and transfer policies can affect employment. This paper explores a different potential impact of transfer policy by asking whether subsidies also affect job ...
(published as 'Do earnings subsidies affect job choice? The impact of SSP subsidies on job turnover and wage growth' in: Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'économique, 2009, 42 (4), 1276 - 1304)
J23, J38
1321 Alberto Bayo-Moriones
Jose Enrique Galdon-Sanchez
Maia Güell
Is Seniority-Based Pay Used as a Motivation Device? Evidence from Plant Level Data
In this paper we use data from industrial plants to investigate if seniority-based pay is used as a motivational device for production workers. Alternatively, seniority-based pay could simply be a ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2010, 30, 155-187)
M52, M12, J30
1319 Sarit Cohen Goldner
M. Daniele Paserman
Mass Migration to Israel and Natives' Transitions from Employment
This paper studies the impact of mass migration from the Former Soviet Union to Israel on natives’ probability of moving from employment to non-employment in a segmented labor market that is ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2006, 59 (4), 630-652)
J00, J30, J61, J21, F22
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