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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
1165 Miguel Portela
Rob Alessie
Coen Teulings
Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions
The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement error. This paper analyses the effect of this measurement error on GDP ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2010, 112(3), 618-639)
I2, O4
1163 Konstantinos Tatsiramos
The Effect of Unemployment Insurance on Unemployment Duration and the Subsequent Employment Stability
This paper studies the effect of unemployment benefits on the unemployment and subsequent employment duration using individual data from the European Community Household Panel, for France, Germany, ...
(substantially revised version appeared as DP No. 2280)
J64, J65, C41
1162 Bernard M. S. van Praag
The Connexion between Old and New Approaches to Financial Satisfaction
In this paper we compare the new satisfaction evaluation approach, developed in the nineties by Oswald, Clark, Blanchflower and others with the older income evaluation (IEQ) approach, developed by ...
(published in: Luigino Bruni and Pierluigi Porta (eds.), Economics and Happiness. Framing the Analysis, Oxford University Press, 2005)
C24, C25, D31, H31, I31, I39
1160 T. H. Gindling
Katherine Terrell
Minimum Wages, Inequality and Globalization
This paper contributes to our understanding of the impact of institutions on incomes of workers in developing countries by rigorously addressing the question as to whether changes in minimum wages ...
(published in: Michigan Journal of International Law, 2004, 26(1), 245-269)
J23, J31, J38
1159 T. H. Gindling
Katherine Terrell
The Effects of Multiple Minimum Wages Throughout the Labor Market
This paper investigates the effects of legal minimum wages on wages, employment, hours worked and monthly earnings among workers covered by minimum wage legislation as well as those for whom it ...
(revised version published as 'The effects of multiple minimum wages throughout the labor market: The case of Costa Rica ' in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (3), 485-511)
J23, J31, J38
1158 Ralitza Dimova
Ira N. Gang
Self-Selection and Earnings During Volatile Transition
Using Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys for 1995, 1997 and 2001 this paper explores determinants of labor force status – not working, public sector employment, private sector employment and ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2007, 35 (3), 612-629 )
J21, J23, J31
1157 Leonor Modesto
Unions, Firing Costs and Unemployment
In this paper we conduct an analysis of the effects of firing costs in models that consider simultaneously worker heterogeneity, imperfect information on their productivity and union power. We ...
(published in: Labour, 2008, 22 (3), 509 - 546)
D83, E24, J65
1156 Brahim Boudarbat
Earnings and Community College Field of Study Choice in Canada
In this paper, we estimate a structural model of choice of field of study by community college students. We use data from the Canadian Survey of Graduates for 12,871 individuals who successfully ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2008, 27 (1), 79-93)
J24, J31
1154 Barry Hirsch
Edward J. Schumacher
Classic Monopsony or New Monopsony? Searching for Evidence in Nursing Labor Markets
The market for hospital registered nurses (RNs) is often offered as an example of "classic" monopsony, while a "new" monopsony literature emphasizes firm labor supply being upward-sloping for reasons ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2005, 24 (5), 969-989)
J42, I10, J30
1152 Armin Falk
Markus Knell
Choosing the Joneses: Endogenous Goals and Reference Standards
A growing economic literature stresses the importance of relative comparisons, e.g., for savings and consumption or happiness. In this literature it is usually assumed that reference standards ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2004, 106 (3), 417-435)
D62, D63, H31, Z13
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