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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
1197 Filipe Almeida-Santos
Karen A. Mumford
Employee Training and Wage Compression in Britain
We use linked data for 1,460 workplaces and 19,853 employees from the Workplace Employee Relations Survey 1998 to analyse the incidence and duration of employee training in Britain. We find ...
(revised version published in: Manchester School, 2005, 73 (3), 321-342)
J24, J31, J41
1196 M. Hashem Pesaran
Davide Pettenuzzo
Allan Timmermann
Forecasting Time Series Subject to Multiple Structural Breaks
This paper provides a novel approach to forecasting time series subject to discrete structural breaks. We propose a Bayesian estimation and prediction procedure that allows for the possibility of ...
(published in Review of Economic Studies, 2006, 73 (4), 1057-1084)
C11, C15, C53
1195 Panu Poutvaara
Tuomas Takalo
Candidate Quality
We analyze the topical question of how the compensation of elected politicians affects the set of citizens choosing to run. To this end, we develop a sparse and tractable citizen-candidate model of ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2007, 14 (1), 7-27)
D70, D72, D79, J24, J4
1193 Steffen Huck
Andrew Seltzer
Brian Wallace
Deferred Compensation and Gift Exchange: An Experimental Investigation into Multi-Period Labor Markets
This paper examines the relationship between firms’ wage offers and workers’ supply of effort using a three-period experiment. In equilibrium, firms will offer deferred compensation: first period ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (2), 819-843)
C91, J31, J41, M51, M52
1192 Yann Algan
Pierre Cahuc
Job Protection: The Macho Hypothesis
This paper shows that employment protection is influenced by the male breadwinner conception which is itself shaped by religions. First, by using international individual surveys, we document that ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2006, 22 (3), 390-410)
J16, J20, J71
1191 Tor Eriksson
Marie Claire Villeval
Other-Regarding Preferences and Performance Pay – An Experiment on Incentives and Sorting
Variable pay not only creates a link between pay and performance but may also help firms in attracting the more productive employees (Lazear 1986, 2000). However, due to lack of natural data, ...
(revised version published as 'Performance-pay, sorting and social motivation ' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008, 68 (2), 412-421.)
M52, J33, J31, C81, C91
1190 Bruno Amable
Donatella Gatti
Labour and Product Market Reforms: A Case for Policy Complementarity
This paper is a contribution to the debate on policy complementarity in relation to deregulation in the product and labour markets. We develop a model of dynamic efficiency wages and monopolistic ...
(published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2006, 15(1), 101-122)
E24, J41, J63, L13
1189 Gueorgui Kambourov
Iourii Manovskii
Occupational Mobility and Wage Inequality
In this study we argue that wage inequality and occupational mobility are intimately related. We are motivated by our empirical findings that human capital is occupation-specific and that the ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2009, 76 (2), 731-759)
E20, E24, E25, J24, J31, J62
1188 John T. Addison
Paulino Teixeira
The Effect of Worker Representation on Employment Behavior in Germany: Another Case of -2.5%
Despite recent changes in the relationship between unionism and various indicators of firm performance, there is one seeming constant in the Anglophone countries: unions at the workplace are ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2006, 45 (1), 1-25)
J23, J51
1187 Manuela Angelucci
Aid and Migration: An Analysis of the Impact of Progresa on the Timing and Size of Labour Migration
This paper models the short and medium-run impact of aid on migration, considering alternatively the effect of unconditional and conditional cash transfers to financially constrained households. ...
(revised version published in: Labour, 2012, 26(1), 124-136)
I38, J18, J16, O15
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