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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
1253 Konstantinos Tatsiramos
Geographic Labour Mobility and Unemployment Insurance in Europe
Conventional wisdom suggests that unemployment benefits create a stronger geographic attachment by lowering the willingness of the unemployed to accept job offers. We assess empirically the effect of ...
(substantially revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22(2), 267-283)
J61, J65, C23, C25
1251 Kenneth Troske
Alexandru Voicu
Joint Estimation of Sequential Labor Force Participation and Fertility Decisions Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Techniques
In this paper we estimate the causal effect of children on the labor supply of women using panel data on women from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79). We examine the effect of ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 150-169)
C11, C15, J13, J22
1250 Jungmin Lee
Observable and Unobservable Household Sharing Rules: Evidence from Young Couples' Pocket Money
The leading evidence against the unitary household models is that "who gets what" is significantly dependent upon "who earns how much." However, it is difficult to pin down the causal effect of ...
(published as 'Marriage, the Sharing Rule, and Pocket Money: The Case of South Korea' in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2007, 55 (3), 557-582)
D1, J1
1249 Alexander Hijzen
Holger Görg
Robert C. Hine
International Outsourcing and the Skill Structure of Labour Demand in the United Kingdom
This paper investigates empirically the link between international outsourcing and the skill structure of labour demand in the United Kingdom. It is the first detailed study of this issue for the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2005, 115 (506), 860-878)
F14, J31
1248 Marco Francesconi
Wilbert van der Klaauw
The Consequences of ‘In-Work’ Benefit Reform in Britain: New Evidence from Panel Data
In October 1999, the British government enacted the Working Families’ Tax Credit, a generous tax credit aimed at encouraging work among low-income families with children. This paper uses ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2007, 42 (1), 1-31 )
C23, H31, I38, J12, J13, J22
1247 Milan Vodopivec
A Simulation of an Income Contingent Tuition Scheme in a Transition Economy
The paper takes advantage of exceptionally rich longitudinal data on the universe of labor force participants in Slovenia and simulates the working of an income contingent loan scheme to partly ...
(published in: Higher Education, 2009, 57 (4), 429-448)
I28, C15, J24
1246 Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
Linguistic Distance: A Quantitative Measure of the Distance Between English and Other Languages
This paper develops a scalar or quantitative measure of the “distance” between English and a myriad of other (non-native American) languages. This measure is based on the difficulty Americans have ...
(published in: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2005, 26 (1), 1-11)
I29, J15, J24
1245 Fernando Galindo-Rueda
Anna Vignoles
The Heterogeneous Effect of Selection in Secondary Schools: Understanding the Changing Role of Ability
Previous work by the authors suggested that during the 1970s and 1980s, a person’s early cognitive ability became a less important determinant of his or her eventual educational achievement. ...
(published in: P. Peterson and L. Woessmann (eds.), Schools and the Equal Opportunity Problem, MIT Press: 2007)
I2
1244 Gil S. Epstein
Ira N. Gang
The Influence of Others on Migration Plans
The willingness to migrate and locational choice may be influenced by others’ choices or plans, particularly if the “other people”, such as family and friends, are migrants, former migrants, or ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2006, 10 (4), 652 - 665)
F22, J61
1242 Josef Falkinger
Volker Grossmann
Institutions and Development: The Interaction between Trade Regime and Political System
This paper argues that openness to goods trade in combination with an unequal distribution of political power has been a major determinant of the comparatively slow development of resource- or ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2005, 10 (3), 229-270)
O10, N10, N16, F43, H50
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