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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
1294 Pierre-Carl Michaud
Frederic Vermeulen
A Collective Retirement Model: Identification and Estimation in the Presence of Externalities
We study the labor supply dynamics of elderly couples by means of a structural collective model. The model allows for general externalities with respect to spouses' leisure. Preferences and the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (2), 159-167)
D13, H31, J22, J26
1293 Joachim Wagner
Nascent Entrepreneurs
Nascent entrepreneurs are people who are engaged in creating new ventures. This chapter reviews the international evidence on how many of them are there around the world, what they are doing, who ...
(published in: Simon C. Parker (ed.), The Life Cycle of Entrepreneurial Ventures (International Handbook Series on Entrepreneurship, Vol. 3), New York: Springer 2006, 15-37)
J23
1292 Robert W. Fairlie
Alicia Robb
Why Are Black-Owned Businesses Less Successful than White-Owned Businesses? The Role of Families, Inheritances, and Business Human Capital
Four decades ago, Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan made the argument that the black family "was not strong enough to create those extended clans that elsewhere were most helpful for ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2007, 25 (2), 289-323)
J15, J23
1291 Winfried Koeniger
Marco Leonardi
Luca Nunziata
Labour Market Institutions and Wage Inequality
In this paper we investigate the importance of labor market institutions such as unemployment insurance, unions, firing regulation and minimum wages for the evolution of wage inequality across ...
(revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 60 (3), 340-356)
E24, J31, J51, J65
1290 Kirsten Daniel
W. Stanley Siebert
Does Employment Protection Reduce the Demand for Unskilled Labor?
Perhaps it does. We propose a model in which workers with little education or in the tails of the age distribution – the inexperienced and the old – have more chance of job failure (mismatch). ...
(published in: International Economic Journal, 2005, 19 (2), 197-222)
J21, J83
1288 Monika Merz
Women's Hours of Market Work in Germany: The Role of Parental Leave
This paper investigates trends and changes in the structural composition of women’s weekly market hours worked in former West-Germany using aggregate time-series data from the German micro census ...
(published in: R. Goméz-Salvador et al. (eds.), Labour Supply and Incentive to Work in Europe, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005)
J13, J22
1287 Thomas Fuchs
Ludger Woessmann
What Accounts for International Differences in Student Performance? A Re-Examination Using PISA Data
We use the PISA student-level achievement database to estimate international education production functions. Student characteristics, family backgrounds, home inputs, resources, teachers and ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2007, 32 (2-3), 433-464)
I28, J24, H52, L33
1286 Maarten Lindeboom
Eddy van Doorslaer
Cut-Point Shift and Index Shift in Self-Reported Health
There is a concern that ordered responses on health questions may differ across populations or even across subgroups of a population. This reporting heterogeneity may invalidate group comparisons and ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2004, 23 (6), 1083-1099)
D30, D31, I10, I12
1284 Ludger Woessmann
How Equal Are Educational Opportunities? Family Background and Student Achievement in Europe and the United States
This paper estimates the effects of family-background characteristics on student performance in the US and 17 Western European school systems. Family background has strong effects both in Europe and ...
(published in: Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, 2008, 78 (1), 45-70)
I21, J62, H52
1282 Francois Fontaine
Do Workers Really Benefit From Their Social Networks?
This paper provides a simple matching model in which unemployed workers and employers in large firms can be matched together through social networks or through more "formal" methods of search. We ...
(published in: Recherches Économique de Louvain / Louvan Economic Reivew, 2008, 74 (1), 5-31)
E24, J64, J68, Z13
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