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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
1141 Stephen P. Jenkins
Philippe Van Kerm
Accounting for Income Distribution Trends: A Density Function Decomposition Approach
This paper develops methods for decomposing changes in the income distribution using subgroup decompositions of the income density function. Overall changes are related to changes in subgroup ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2005, 3(1), 43–61)
C14, D31, D33
1140 Francesco Pastore
Alina Verashchagina
The Distribution of Wages in Belarus
This paper uncovers evidence on the distribution of wages in Belarus in the second half of the 1990s. The returns to education and work experience are high and stable, which is atypical for a ...
(published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2006, 48 (3), 351-376)
D31, J31, P2
1139 Anna Maria Ferragina
Francesco Pastore
Factor Endowment and Market Size in EU-CEE Trade: Would Human Capital Change the Actual Quality Trade Patterns?
This paper aims to test several hypotheses on the determinants of the quality of trade in cross-country regressions, taking a sample of trade competitors in EU markets. The hypotheses are those ...
(published in: Eastern European Economics, 2005, 43 (1), 5-33)
F10, J30, P23
1138 Martin Biewen
Measuring State Dependence in Individual Poverty Status: Are There Feedback Effects to Employment Decisions and Household Composition?
Using a sample of prime-aged men from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper examines the effects of past poverty experience on future poverty status, future employment status and ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2009, 24 (7) 1095-1116 )
C33, D31, I32, J12
1137 Truman Bewley
Fairness, Reciprocity, and Wage Rigidity
This paper contains a review of empirical work related to wage rigidity, where researchers have collected their own data. The work includes field studies, economic experiments, and psychological ...
(published in: H. Gintis et al. (eds), Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life, Cambridge: MIT Press 2005; P. Diamond & H. Vartianen (eds), Behavioral Economics and Its Applications, Princeton University Press, 2007 )
E32, J31
1136 Sara Lemos
Political Variables as Instruments for the Minimum Wage
Following the early 1980s apparent consensus, there has been a controversial debate in the literature over the direction of the minimum wage employment effect. Explanations to nonnegative effects ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2005, 4 (1), Art.16)
J38
1135 Sara Lemos
The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Wages, Employment and Prices
This paper puts together evidence for the wages, employment and price effects of the minimum wage. This overall picture will help to understand the small employment effects prevalent in the ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2007, 26, 397-413)
J38
1134 Joachim Wagner
What a Difference a Y Makes: Female and Male Nascent Entrepreneurs in Germany
In western industrialized countries men are on average more than twice as active in entrepreneurship as women. Based on data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2007, 28 (1), 1-21)
J23
1133 Tito Boeri
Michael C. Burda
Preferences for Rigid versus Individualized Wage Setting in Search Economies with Frictions
Firing frictions and renegotiation costs affect worker and firm preferences for rigid wages versus individualized Nash bargaining in a standard model of equilibrium unemployment, in which workers ...
(revised version published as 'Preferences for Collective Versus Individualised Wage Setting' in: Economic Journal, 2008, 119 (540), 1440-1463)
J5, J6, D7
1132 Sher Verick
Wilko Letterie
Gerard A. Pfann
Non-Linearities in the Expansion of Capital Stock
The empirical identification of non-linearities in investment relies on how investment is assumed to be separated into various regimes. Using German establishment-level panel data, we estimate a ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 72 (3), 263-280)
E22, C23, C24
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