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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
1119 David Card
Is the New Immigration Really So Bad?
This paper reviews the recent evidence on U.S. immigration, focusing on two key questions: (1) Does immigration reduce the labor market opportunities of less-skilled natives? (2) Have immigrants ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2005, 115 (507), F300-F323)
J61
1118 James Banks
Arie Kapteyn
James P. Smith
Arthur van Soest
International Comparisons of Work Disability
Self-reported work disability is analyzed in the US, the UK and the Netherlands. Different wordings of the questions lead to different work disability rates. But even if identical questions are ...
(published in: David Cutler and David Wise (eds.), Health at Older Ages: The Causes and Consequences of Declining Disability Among the Elderly, University of Chicago Press, 2008, 251-294)
J28, I12, C81
1117 Reinhard Hujer
Stephan L. Thomsen
Christopher Zeiss
The Effects of Vocational Training Programmes on the Duration of Unemployment in Eastern Germany
This paper focuses on the effects of vocational training programmes on the duration of unemployment in Eastern Germany. We use information from administrative data of the Federal Employment Office. ...
(published in: Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv / Journal of the German Statistical Society, 2006, 90 (2), 299-321)
J64, J24, I28, J68
1116 Alessandro Cigno
Gianna Claudia Giannelli
Furio C. Rosati
Daniela Vuri
Is There Such a Thing as a Family Constitution? A Test Based on Credit Rationing
The paper aims to ascertain whether voluntary money transfers may be explained by the existence of self-enforcing family constitutions. We identify a circumstance in which an agent will behave ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2006, 4, 183 - 204)
D13, J13, J14
1115 Anna Maria Mayda
Who Is Against Immigration? A Cross-Country Investigation of Individual Attitudes toward Immigrants
This paper empirically analyzes both economic and non-economic determinants of attitudes toward immigrants, within and across countries. The two individual-level survey data sets used, covering a ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2006, 88 (3), 510-530)
F22, F1, J61
1114 Alessandro Cigno
The Supply of Child Labour
The paper develops a theoretical framework, and a diagrammatic apparatus, for explaining the supply of child labour. It examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than ...
(edited version published as Chapter 2 of: A. Cigno and F. C. Rosati (eds.), The Economics of Child Labour, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005)
D13, I12, J13, J22, J24, J82, O12
1111 Massimiliano Bratti
Emilia Del Bono
Daniela Vuri
New Mothers' Labour Force Participation in Italy: The Role of Job Characteristics
In this paper we use newly available individual-level data from the Longitudinal Survey of Italian Households to investigate the factors affecting female labour force participation after the birth ...
(revised version published in: Labour, 2005, 19 (s1), 79–121)
J13, J21, J23, O17, C3
1110 Gueorgui Kambourov
Iourii Manovskii
Rising Occupational and Industry Mobility in the United States: 1968-1993
We analyze the dynamics of worker mobility in the United States over the 1968-1993 period at various levels of occupational and industry aggregation. We find a substantial overall increase in ...
(revised version published as 'Rising Occupational and Industry Mobility in the United States, 1968 - 97' in: International Economic Review, 2008, 49 (1), 41-79)
E20, J21, J24, J44, J45, J62, J63
1109 Karen A. Mumford
Peter N. Smith
The Gender Earnings Gap in Britain
The earnings gap between male and female employees is substantial and persistent. Using new data for Britain, this paper shows that an important contribution to this gap is made by the workplace in ...
(revised version published as 'The Gender Earnings Gap in Britain: Including the Workplace' in: Manchester School, 2007, 75 (6), 653-672)
J3, J7
1108 M. Hashem Pesaran
Allan Timmermann
Real Time Econometrics
This paper considers the problems facing decision makers using econometric models in real time. It identifies the key stages involved and highlights the role of automated systems in reducing the ...
(published in: Econometric Theory, 2005, 21 (1), 212-231)
C51, C52, C53
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