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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
1385 Daniele Checchi
Laura Pagani
The Effects of Unions on Wage Inequality: The Italian Case in the 1990s
In this paper we analyse the contribution of union activity to reducing earnings inequality. Given the specific nature of the system of industrial relations, Italian unions may contribute ...
(published in: Politica Economica, 2005, 1, 41-68)
J31
1384 Maurice Schiff
Yanling Wang
North-South Technology Diffusion, Regional Integration, and the Dynamics of the “Natural Trading Partners” Hypothesis
Based on static analysis, a number of studies argue that forming a RTA is more likely to raise welfare if member countries are “natural trading partners,” while other studies claim the opposite. ...
(published in: Revue d'économie du développement, 2007, 21 (5), 69-84)
F02, F13, F15, F43, O39
1383 Mirko Cardinale
Mike Orszag
Severance Pay and Corporate Finance: Empirical Evidence from a Panel of Austrian and Italian Firms
This paper examines the empirical link between severance pay and corporate finance. Severance pay is an economic debt of the employer and hence should be taken into account by the market in its ...
(published in: Empirica, 2005, 32 (3-4), 309-343)
J65, J32, G39
1382 Pedro S. Martins
Firm-Level Social Returns to Education
Do workers benefit from the education of their co-workers? This question is examined first by introducing a model of on-the-job schooling, which argues that educated workers may transfer part of ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23(2), 539-558)
J24, J31, I20
1381 Armin Falk
Urs Fischbacher
Simon Gächter
Living in Two Neighborhoods: Social Interactions in the Lab
Field evidence suggests that people belonging to the same group often behave similarly, i.e., behaviour exhibits social interaction effects. We conduct an experiment that avoids the identification ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2013, 51 (1), 563–578)
C91, H41, K42, H26
1380 Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Selection Policy and the Labour Market Outcomes of New Immigrants
Many countries are placing a greater emphasis on productive skills in the immigrant selection policies as a way of achieving national objectives regarding immigration. These changes stem primarily ...
(published in: D.A. Cobb-Clark and S. Khoo (eds.), Public Policy and Immigrant Settlement, Edward Elgar 2006)
J61, J22, J20
1378 John T. Addison
Christopher J. Surfield
The Use of Alternative Work Arrangements by the Jobless: Evidence from the CAEAS/CPS
Alternative work arrangements (AWAs), such as contracting, consulting, and temporary work, have been criticized as providing only atypical, even precarious, employment. Yet they may also allow ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2006, 27(2), 149-162)
J21, J24, J63, M50
1376 Pedro S. Martins
Rent Sharing Before and After the Wage Bill
Many biases plague the estimation of rent sharing in labour markets. Using a Portuguese matched employer-employee panel, these biases are addressed in this paper in three complementary ways: 1) ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2009, 41(17), 2133-2151)
C33, J31, J41
1375 Simon Gächter
Arno Riedl
Dividing Justly in Bargaining Problems with Claims: Normative Judgments and Actual Negotiations
Theoretical research on claims problems has concentrated on normative properties and axiomatizations of solution concepts. We complement these analyses by empirical evidence on the predictability ...
(published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2006, 27, 571-594)
D63, C78, C92
1373 Wiji Arulampalam
Alison L. Booth
Mark L. Bryan
Is There a Glass Ceiling over Europe? Exploring the Gender Pay Gap across the Wages Distribution
Using harmonised data from the European Union Household Panel, we analyse gender pay gaps by sector across the wages distribution for ten countries. We find that the mean gender pay gap in the raw ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 60 (2), 163-186)
J16, J31, J7
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